Holocaust in the Borderlands

[Ciata]

It has now been confirmed that around 12 hours ago the capital of The Borderlands of T3h Furry was wiped off the face of the planet by a nuclear explosion. The death toll has not yet been estimated, but it will surely be in the millions. Though there has been no confirmation to who has done this act, to some there are no doubts and no explanations as to why. The government of T3H was in session when the explosion occured, and was totaly wiped out. The country joins those already in anarchy and turmoil.

[Lemuriania]

[OOC: No offense, but do you think it is nessisary to depict every nation? I mean, there's a lot of Nations in the Fed that don't RP on the board. Perhaps we should.. have a two post rule?]

[The Union of Tinis]

[OOC: I'd say its okay to have a thread about a defunct nation if you plan on using that nation as a focus in your RPs. Genus Liberalis and Shimandu are examples of this, OmegaRave and Nogitsune are examples of former nations that don't have anyone clammering to do an RP involving them as a focus (as least not yet). Of course weather you get involved in the chaos in country X is up to you. Every government has to have its priorities, and if a nation is no where near yours, its probably not one of them. International politics is pretty crazy in the real world, so why not here? (with in reason of course) And if the thread dies out, oh well, its kept for historical reasons. But on with the stuff!]

[gbwt]

The president of The Great Big Wet Thing watches the satilite feed on his office vid screen. The mushroom cloud is visable from space; he didnt need the enhanced zoom to know what had happend. Silance prevails for sevral moments as teh horror unfolds.
Then, as the satilite switches to live feed, and teh devestation becomes evident, his office, and a hundred others around the country burst into action. Files are pulled up on T3H's last censes count, flight records and travel logs are shuffeld around trying to find out if any of his citizans were there in the blast. His looks over at his defence advisor, looks him in the ey, and simply nods. The advisor presses a button, and out side the public speeker system comes to life.
"now hear this, now hear this. A nuclear device has been detonated over the capital of T3H Furry. All citizans are requested to move o their homes. All buisnesses are to close imeadiatly. a government price lock has been set on all items. Details will be made availiable as they come in...." and so it repeats.

Raiseing from his desk in the midst of the chaos that is now his office, the president walks into a side room where sevral of his best and brightest are gathered going over reports, maps, and charts.
"Ok furs, talk to me. What happened, and who did it."
One of his genarals turns toword him and salutes. The president snaps off a quick salute as he is filled in.
"We cant tell much yet. All we know is that it wasn't anything of ours, all satilites have been accounted for. we are waiting to send in some recon teams untill the radiation levels start to die down. Food, water, medical suplies, and other nesicary items are standing by, ready to begin assisting. We can expect a huge influx of refugees within hours. Sir."
the president moves over to the table and glances over the maps. They are detailed photos of T3H Furry, before and after the explosion.
"Very good. Have we made contact with anyone from T3H Furry?"
"Not as of yet sir. The EMP blast may have fried their compunication stations."
The president nods. "I see. Are we in any danger from a sedond blast? what about fallout?"
"The winds wont be carriing any of the fall out in our direction sir, though we have already begun dispatching equiptment to areas that are downwind of the blast adn will be reciving fallout. Initial reports sugst that we may not be a primary target. but i recomend that we stay on defcon two for the time being Sir."
"Agreed. Have we spoken to any other nations in the Federation yet?"
the genaral shakes his head, dog ears flopping. "No sir. But this will be a good, though tragic way to make our first aperence within the Federation."
The president blinks once, and turns to the genaral. "What. What did you just say? Did you just sugest that we use this horiffic event as a way to get on good terms with our neighbors?! Genaral Blood, you will make no farther coments on our political intrests from now on! Get back to work" the president snarls.
He leaves the war room and goes back to his desk, and begins going over the reports, release forms, and whatever else needs his signature...


[ooc: not bad for a first IC post. though, under unfortanate circumstances. And sorry about a lack of names. If there is one thing i'm not good at, it's names. (my own nation is proof of that) I'll come up with more if things progress, i hope...]

[Drastrata]

King Aquinas, "Please tell me that wasn't our nuke" as he watches replays of the nuclear explosion over the capital of T3H.

the ever faithfull techy, "I'm afraid the blast does match that of our tests of the Apocalypse nuclear missle we launched at Sicarii."

Alex, "But it doesn't make any sense. Why there? Why that nation? If it were us or Ciata, at least there would be some reason behind it, but this was almost random with taking out this capital city, why?"

Techy, "that seems to be the responce to many of Sicarii's moves."

Alex, "What if he is working for someone else? What if he isn't the mastermind behind all of this, but a right hand man of some type?"

Techy, "Well, we don't have much of a way to know, we haven't been able to figure out much of a pattern to his strikes, or at least we had some form of reason before this one, but it throws the curve."

Alex, "Yes, of all the things he could have done, why this, or who would want to do this rahter? We need to find out."

[gbwt]

Things are still, unsurprisingly, still busy late into the night of the day five. Radiation levels have died down enough for releif teams to move in and suplies to be dropped. The death toll riaises by the hour. The President looks at all the papperwork still on his desk, sighs, and stands up.
"I'm going out for some fresh air, Muriel. Hold my calls."
"Yes sir," his feline secretary says as he leaves.
Walking out to the complex grounds, he starts to take a walk around the small park within the walls. So much has happend in the last few days. Legislation was quickly passed on an open immegration bill, alowing not only those from the Boerderlands, but also those from other countries downwind to find refuge in his country. he had just signed an arms bill, alowing the manufactue and sale of more firearms. He has not slept for quite a long time now.
Looking up at the stary sky, free of clouds, he stops his walk. "What does the future hold for us..." He pauses, not really expecting an answer, and reciving none, moves on, returning to the building, and into the living quarters off to the side of his office, ready for some sleep...

Meanwhile...
Off at the boarders of The Great Big Wet Thing, shelters have been set up, and refugees are pouring in. Centers are swamped, but for the most part, refugees are quickly accounted for and moved to makeshift cities nearby. Tents, 2x4 building skelotons, and playwood huts are all that have been erected at this point, and military forces patrol the streets, keeping the peace. Lists of missing persons are posted around, and the long list of dead is updated every 3 hours. Various furs mill about in the camps, or move farther into The Great Big Wet Thing, looking to rebuild their shatered lives.
News broadcasts keep viewers up to date, and a government agent keeps the facts corect. While wild rumores and acuisations fly around, and some companys try to cash in on "Apocolpitc Survival Kits", the populace is kept calm with daily updates via the public anouncment system.

((anyone know anything about T3H Furry? What its population was, it's governemt, the ratio of furs:scalies:humans? Do we know anythign at all? >>))

[The Union of Tinis]

<Interior of The Tower - Analysis Level 1>

"First Speaker," says S.C. Epshrin as Izixs enters the conference room. "I'm glad you could make it."

"Yes, so am I," says the First Speaker as he slowly makes his way to the chair at the head of the table. "The doctors have been poking and prodding me all week. I almost had to sneak out to get here. Are we ready?" Izixs adjusts his leg brace into a bent position as he sits.

Epshrin watches the Commanders nod. "I do believe so. Vinlia?"

"I'm afraid I'll be speaking for Commander Ivan, for he is not currently here." Commander Talia Vinlia, a beautiful white wolf wearing the simple black of the Special Froces, stands up and walks over to a projected map. The map features T3H Furry, Tinis and the lands in between. "Here," she says, "as you know, was the center of the blast that destroyed almost half of T3H Furry. Initial intelligence reports indicate that the magnitude of the blast does not match that observed by previous tests in Drastrata. But it in fact more closely resembles the magnitude and destructive power seen from the Prismwind blast.

"Recently several operations have discovered several Shimandu nuclear weapons missing. Since then, my soldiers have managed to destroy or recapture most of these weapons, however several have still been accounted for. The problem is that the type of weapons missing were not of this scale either, but much smaller tactical devices similar to the Drastrata missile.

"However, if the Uranium from these devices were combined, it is possible that a blast such as that seen could be produced. Analysist estimates this as the most likely scenario given the current socio-political climate of the region."

Izixs nods. "But what if it wasn't a combination Shimandu nuke?"

"Then the device in that case came directly from a stockpile of another government. The problem being the only two places to get a nuke of that size is either from Nogitsune or a more solvent government with that capability. Nogitsune has almost completely surrendered its control and military to the FFDF and its stocpiles are being dismantled as we speak, and are well accounted for. As for stockpiles from solvent governments, who knows."

"So either they have engineering help in Shimandu or else someone has committed an act of war against T3H Furry."

"Yes First Speaker, the analysis does seem to suggest and those two possibilites."

"Epshrin?" asks Izixs. "What of Matabia?"

The Supreme Commander nods to Commander Dobbin Krazalgesh of the Airforces who answers. "Sir, radiation risk to the city of Matabia is low. Most of the fallout appears to be falling into the sea west of there. However, there is a great chance that fish may be affected as far east as the far side of the island of Forr. But I'm afraid that's not my area of expertiese."

Izixs nods. "I'll issue warnings. What other news is there about the incredible dissapearing governments of the Federation?"

Epshrin takes this one, "OmegaRave appears to have simply disolved its government. All their leaders resigned and the even burned their constitution on Rave TV. Political Scientists believe they have self-induced a sort of social safe anarchy similar to an idealized communist society. Weather it will last is unknown. I say this not because of my own bias against pure communism, but that Vyacheslavia is to their north, and unless we move quickly to make OmegaRave a trust territory, they could easily attempt to move in. But the same could be said of Vylland, but I personall feel that is less likely.

"As for Coral Zone, we still don't know what happened to them. One day their undersea cities were a bustle with activity, the next, nothing. Dissapeared as quickly as they first appeared."

"Strange... But back to the matter at hand, Commander Dinsdale," says the First Speaker. "How is the refugee situation?"

A drowsy looking ferret responds, "The refugees are coming in less quickly now. Not many survived from the eastern half of T3H Furry. Many of the rest are either attempting entry into Ciata or Drastrata, or when that fails for many of them, they take the roads around the desert and head on down to Big Wet. One would think that Lemuriania would be quicker, but the move into Genus Liberalis are keeping the refugees wary of them. They kind of want to get away from the fighting and G.B.W.T. seems the only reasonably close option for them.

"The refugees that have reached Matabia appear in reasonable spirits and other than low rates of radiation poisoning and burns, most are in good health. Relief efforts are of course underway."

Commander Dinsdale pauses for a moment. "There is one problem though First Speaker."

The First Speaker raises his ears. "What is it?"

"Supplies. We are becoming stretched thin. Current food stores are at fourty percent of reserve. Estimates have them dipping below tewnty by the end of the year. Feeding our nation, refugees in the millions, and our army is taking its toll on the system sir. Unless strict rationing is introduced or the next couple years has the best harvest we've ever seen, then in three years starvation will become a problem for Tinis. Sir, we are reaching our limit."

Silence consumes the room. Izixs stares at the map. Finally he says, "Joel. If we secure Shimandu and the Shimandan refugees in Butin home, will that be enough?"

"Only for another year."

"And what about returning the refugees from T3H Furry to the west end of their country?"

"Maybe another six months beyond that."

Another silence creeps into the room and strangles the mind.

Izixs gets up, "Its time I talked to Waldo. Thank you very much for this breifing. I wish you the best of luck. But track down these criminals. I don't know if you know it or not, but if we fail at this conflict, not only is the Federation in danger but Tinis. T3H Furry was a close miss. Next time they'll be dead on. The Chamber will authorize your plan within an hour." Izixs hobbles out.

When the First Speaker is gone, Epshrin says, "Its time we made the insurgant Shimandi and that Sicarii feel our wrath."

[gbwt]

President Rutherfordenters the confrance room and lokos arund at his advisors.
"Ok, talk to me. What are we dealing with."
A feline stands up and slides a folder down the table to the President. "The death toll has begun to taper off, there are still countless missing, meny of those presumed dead. If they were near the blast zone, they are listed as so. Our country has taken the bulk of the refugees, and although we have been able to temporarely acomidate them, frankly, we just dont have he room to keep them all."
Rutherford nods. "Ok, then what are our options."
The cat sits down as a human stands up. "Most all of the refugees are on our northern boarders. While some have moved deeper into the country, people are begining to start talking about the posibility of over crowding. While the refugees have temprary houseing at and around the check in points, they conditions are still dirty and extreamly overcrowded. Disease is spreading around the camps, and we can hardly contain the outbreaks."
"So what do you recomend?"
The human, Jack, moves around the table and over to a map. "Here," he says, pointing to the lands north of GBWT, "are vast areas of uninhabited land. Mostly graslands, but also some diciduouse forest along the coast. I recomaned we move andclaim this land and begin moveing the refugees there."
President Rutherford swivels his chair from side to side slightly, tinking. "We can't move to far up, it would streach our resources to thin." After another moment, he reaches a descion. "Do it, but make sure that we use some of the land to increase our farm production. We are going to have alot more citizens to feed, and i dont want to have to rely on other nations for our own needs. Next."
A large bull in a military uniform, stands p with his hat under his arm. "Sir. recon teams have finished their reports. While our knowlage of our neboring counties militaries and operations are frightningly limited, we have acertained this. Shimandu, slightly south of T3h Furry, can not account for sevral of their smaler tactical nukes. It is posable that these unacounted for nukes could have been combined to create this blast."
After taking a deep breath, "So, this could have been one of the most horiffic and devestaing acts of terrorism in living memory?"
The bull nods. "Yes sir, this seems to be one of the leading possabilities, but it may be that another nation detonated the device. We can't tell for sure."
Rutherford closes his eyes and nods. "Thank you genaral. That will be all for now people. I want finacial papers on my desk tomarrow moring about if we will be moveing the refugees north. General, I want to know more about our 'alies'. We dont know enough about those around us to stay safe in my opinion. Now if you will excuse me, I have to addres the country in light of the recent shooting."
Everyone rises, talking, gathering papers and the like as they file out. President Rutherford walks out the back door to a side lounge, and gets himself a drink of water. Tehn, moveing into his office, he sits in front of the camera. As his fur is combed and the lights reposistioned, Ruth rereads his speach.
"Ok people, quite, we're on in 30 seconds!"
...30 seconds later...
"MY fellow furs and humans. The last few days have been taxing on us all. I ahve no doubt that all of us have suffered some sort of loss, but we must remain strong. We have little, if anthing, to fear from tose responsable for the horrific acts in the Borderlands of T3H Furry."
"We are a very privlaged and prospourse nation. Meny of the other nations in our Federation dont have the luxury of voteing, much less that the right to bear arms. I ask you all to keep your tempers in check and go about your normal, daily lives. This is President Rutherford B. Jacklin, and i beleive that together, we can over come any obstical in the path of our great nation."
The camera stops recording. "Exelent sir. That was purfect! We'll replay the boradcast during the news tonight, sir."
Ruth jsut nods, and stands, the werieness returning to his eyes now that the nation isn't watching. "Yes, very good."
Ruth goes back to the lounge, and sees the general there. The bull snaps to atention as he enters. "At ease." Getting a cup of coffee, he turns to the general. "I negleted to mention this in the confrance room. we have lost contact with sevral other nations with in the Federation over the last 2 weeks. Can you tell me what's going on with this, and if it's related to the blast in T3H Furry."
The genaral shakes his head. "I've not recived any intel on their current status as of yet, but i dont think any of them are related to the incident in the boerderlands. It could just eb another few governments being overthrown, and their countries are still recovering."
The president nods, "Ah, i see. Very well then....."

[gbwt]

We find President Rutherford again sitting at his desk, being hackeld- er, counciled by his advisors.

"Sir, the peoples opinion of you have sliped drasticly in the last few days, what with the government takeign the gold found on our property, and the continued ban of smoking.."
"I know," responds teh president. "But these are, diffacult times. We need the gold to continues assisting releife efforts in what remains of t3h Furry, and unless they want to see prices explode, they wont complaign. As for the smoking, it will be like this for sevral years, but as this next generation rolls through, they wont know of smoking. The problem will be solved, just not tomarow."
A second advisor speeks up. "yes sir. there is good news. Meny people are in favor of the wepons platforms and armed space craft the military is developing. Wih the satilites watching our borders, and our naghbors, they can rest asured of their safety."
The president nods. He knows that the satilites will have troble stopping something like that that happend in T3h Furry from happening, but he's not about to tell anyone else that.
"sir, there is still the issue of teh coperations wanting to 'donate' to political campaigns. we need to make a desciion on that sooner or later."
The president takes the bill that as offered him, and turns away from his advsors. It takes onl a moment now to decide. "tell them no. I dont want political candidates stupping to selling Fizzy Cola to get elected into office. That is all for now gentalfurs. I have other matters to atend to." And he rises and moves off to anotehr confrance with forign delegates...