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18 Neuva, 1595

Emperor Tyrael sacks Caesarius, calls up Janeway to lead Foreign Office


THE IMPERIAL TOWER, Cathedrium - Christophos Caesarius' six-year run as Foreign Secretary has come to an end, according to sources close to the Emperor and his inner circle. In his place comes Admiral Mariska Janeway, who has served as the Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Dominion Armed Forces for the last two years. The selection of Janeway to be the new Foreign Secretary is historic; Janeway, already the first female Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs in Dominion history, will now become the first female Foreign Secretary in Dominion history.

Janeway, a veteran of the Armed Forces for 20 years, and as mentioned before has served for two years as Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She was involved in the Dominion war in Drazen several years ago and commanded as an Vice Admiral the DNS Voyager, a Terran-class destroyer - the first of its kind - and was present during the sieges of Rhine and later Alsace. Janeway later commanded Dominion Navy assets in southern Drazen during the occupation period. In 1590, Janeway was commissioned an Admiral, the first female Admiral in Dominion history. In 1593, Admiral Janeway was named to the Joint Chiefs and was subsequently named Chairwoman by the Emperor. Two weeks ago, it appeared as if Emperor Tyrael was maneuvering to move Janeway from her military role to a civilian role either in the Foreign Office or the Home Office. Sources close to the Throne seemed to indicate the Emperor was planning to either sack Caesarius or ask him to resign. Later the same day, Caesarius supposedly refused to resign his office for an unknown reason and was then earlier today informed by the Emperor that he was removing him from office in place of Janeway.

Admiral Janeway is believed to be a much tougher negotiator than Caesarius or any other Foreign Secretary. She is known to have strong opinions about the future of Dominion power in the Near East and the Dominion's relationship with the NETO alliance. Janeway's chances of being confirmed by the Senate are looking strong, and a vote is likely to take place within the next several days.

Singanese Government Emergency Room
Kanjong, Singan
27 Ochtyr 1595

"Has our chance finally opened up, if not there better be a reason as to why I was pulled out of my meeting early," growled Prime Minister Daruo, he had been in a meeting for his new education plan, and his absence would be noted by those in attendance.

"Yes sir, the aircraft has been positively identified as two Tieguose Y-19 fighters. It crossed the air defense zone about thirty minutes ago, we scramble four F-3SIs to the pair of aircraft," responded Minister of Defense Harold Strom, a ethnic Lanlanian whose family had ties to Singan for decades due to his father's nefarious activities, only attaining his current position due to his history of being the Prime Minister's right hand man.

The pair entered the emergency conference room; a brightly lit room with military advisors, cabinet members, and the royal liaison all gathered along the centre wooden conference table. The last time the room had been this filled, and chaotic was when Tieguo began seizing Singanese fishing vessels offs its own coast. The Daruo Government had been formulating responses ever since from diplomatic, to economic, and finally a military response. While knowing war in southeast Ostara would doom the region, Daruo knew that he could not let the Tieguoese attempt at hegemony go unanswered. He had only one option at with to respond with, power.

"Mr. Strom has filled me in on prelimary details, where are we at currently?" questioned the Prime Minister once the entire room settled down, and the screen at the end of the table began its presentation.

"Normally, Tieguoese fighters commit ADZ violations on a near monthly violation, typically we intercept their fighters just as they before cross the ADZ over the Aesean Ocean. Since the Aesean Waters Fishing incident, our pilots have been instructed to not make themselves pronounced and begin to approach Tieguoese fighters undetected due to the benefits of the F-3SIs stealth capabilities. Today, a pair of Y-19 fighters have been detected by a Lomarran air warning aircraft on a training exercise with the 98th Reconnaissance Squadron near the ADZ over the Aesean Ocean," began the commanding officer of the Air Defense Command.

"Under the the recent directives from the Minister of Defense we have allowed the Tieguoese pilots to make deeper and deeper incursions, as to see their general intent to violate our airspace; however today the Tieguoese fighters did not remain over waters as they typically do but have gone over land, and are currently thirty kilometers south of the border. Our F-3SIs will intercept the targets within a few minutes."

"Has air traffic control made all attempts to establish contact, and instructed them to turn back?" asked the Prime Minister.

"Yes sir, and are continuing to do so until the F-3SIs are in position. They have clearly entered Singanese sovereign air space, and have not headed to civil air authorities. Given all other factors, and the current flight path; current rules of engagement allow for the aircraft to be targeted and shot down."

The room tensed for a few minutes, as the Prime Minister gave the final go ahead for the aircraft to intercept the Tieguoese. The F-3SIs were the Singanese variant of the 5th Gen multi-role Fighter III from the Holy Lanlanian Empire. The most able bodied aircraft in the Singanese inventory as they began to shift over to more advanced aircraft as legacy aircraft were phased out. The 6th Generation air superiority fighter was only a few years from low-rate production in Singan. Daruo knew and trust the aircraft, he oversaw the sale of them, as well as the development of the Singanese modifications to the design.

The monitor switched over to various windows showing radar, camera feeds, as well as audio playing from the Singanese fighters. The chatter increased as the Singanese aircraft attempted radio contact, typically Tieguoese aircraft would not respond but simply just turn back; however in this case the Tieguoese aircraft brandished their armaments welcoming a challenge.

The chatter changed from a calm operation to a frenetic dogfight. Even though the aircraft had since separated to be miles apart, the action sounded like they were just metres apart. The four singanese fighters had split into two pairs in order to chase their respective targets. One Tieguoese aircraft had begun to turn back towards the sea, while another keeping attempting to push further into Singan headed towards Yajong. After eight minutes of a cat and mouse game of the Tieguoese fighters was finally struck after a guided missile exploded right underneath its right wing, causing it to tumble out of the sky.

"This is Firebreak, Zeta One has been neutralized; pilot ejected requesting capture team," sounded one of the pilots as military officers began organizing teams to apprehend the Tieguoese pilot. The final Tieguoese aircraft was nearing to the ocean, however just as it began to bank towards Tieguo, a one of the F-3Sis managed to pull into a dive right above it and target the Tieguoese with one of the heat seeking missiles it was carrying. This time however, it was a direct hit as the entire aircraft exploded. The pilot radioed back that that he did not see an ejection as he flew past the explosion in the sky.

Prime Minister Daruo sat back into his seat after being on edge for twelve unending minutes. He thanked the military officers for their work, and ask his staff to begin working on a statement. He also ordered hourly reports on the status of the surviving Tieguoese pilot, as well as the wreckage of the aircraft.

OOC for the Khionna Treaty. Pretty self-explanatory.

You can find it here: http://board.eternityrpc.com/thread-846.html

It's an international treaty regarding how to go about using Khionna. It's analog is the Antarctic Treaty. Unlike other treaties that have real life analogs, with some exceptions, if you don't go and explicitly state your country's part of the treaty, then it won't be. SO, go add yourself.

Election fraud in New Zealmark, source found

After the accusation in a foreign newspaper reported election fraud the provisional goverment started an investigation. They found leads that made it clear that foreign interventions were at play.

Here follows the statement of the provisional goverment.

Quote:We are going to hold new elections, even tough negiotiations already started on a new constitution and how the goverment is going to run after all the misery went trough. We found out that foreign intervention from powers on this continent. We don't have to say who to people who can read between the lines but not to cause any more unrest we aren't expliticy saying who did it

What are your taxes and benefits tell the world here.

For those unaware, Eternity has a Steam group: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/eternityrpc

I noticed we no longer have a thread for sharing Steam IDs? So here is one. Sure we could add ourselves to the group and then select to add each other, but who honestly uses Steam groups?

Anyway, post here with your Steam IDs, if you happy with people adding you as a friend.

If you add people as a friend, do please at least state who you are in your friend request? I think that's a thing you can do; it helps a lot in sorting out who's who when you get those requests, I guess.



[somewhere here will be a list of users and their associated Steam IDs]

SO It' been a while since I worked on the MC server, having gotten busy with work and, uh, other projects. In any case, I still remember the plan for the server, but I was mostly stuck on what to do with the map.

The choice was between a world map (Well, multiple connected maps) based upon the Siora MTRP map, or creating a map based on the Andlosheim setting. The advatages of either would be:

Siora:
- you can literally just re-create your nations at a smaller scale. I mean, obviously.
- role play interactions between rp nations in game?
- more people would be interested because of it.
- can create cool stuff about the world that might inspire corresponding cool stuff in RP.

Andlosheim:
- Fantasy map. Everyone builds fantasy stuff anyway with walls and castles, right?
- Can develop an mmo-style overworld with npcs and quests
- A bit more of a fantastical map.
- Mestra has ideas for cool fantasy server cities and stuff.


Really, the difference between either setting is mostly cosmetic. In either case the worlds won't be small, as I anticipate needing maybe about 12 separate large maps to fully cover either option, though in Siora's case much of it will be ocean map with tiny islands (because, you know, that's what the Siora map looks like). Of course, i you have other ideas, I'd love to hear them.

Regardless of what we go with first, I'm most likely going to introduce both options eventually.