Eternity RPC Board
06-16-2017, 09:21 PM
Alvan 21, 1584
“I will not stand idly by while a foreign state meddles in our internal affairs,” the new chancellor declares before a huge crowd. “In our new administration, we will not allow foreign money, arms, and propaganda to support terrorism within our own borders. Look at Carruth! Look at St. Guthbert! Look at Hwearftun! These radical separatists, these despicable terrorists murder innocent men, women, and children to serve their disgusting agenda.
“These are the kinds of people that Brymme supports! For this, we must draw a line in the sand.” Dunstan looks straight into the camera. “Republic of Brymme! You must cease and desist your illegal, inhumane aiding and abetting of separatist elements in the Kingdom of Arrenland. Failure will result in severe consequences. No more!” He swiped the air with his arm and the crowd broke out in a deafening applause.
Quartyr 12
St. Guthbert was the capital and largest city on the island of Carruth, the largest overseas domain of the Kingdom of Arrenland. A vestigial remain from Arrenland’s colonial empire, Carruth was the first island south of the Brymmish Principality to be settled by Arrenland. Over time it became a prosperous, valuable asset. Sugarcane, indigo, coffee, and rice were grown in abundance on the large plantations throughout the island. Carruth made many a landowner extremely wealthy. Their wealth was built upon the backs of hundreds of thousands of indentured servants and Ostaran slaves. It was heavily invested in, with hundreds of millions of modern shillings-worth of infrastructure, settlement building, and fortification.
Today it remains in Arrenlander hands, and still retains millions of Ostarans - descendants of slaves - and the descendants of Arrene and Brymmish indentured servants and settlers. One of those Ostaran descendants walks into the second-busiest mall in St. Guthbert. He wears a long, dull-colored coat. Concealed within was a short submachine gun with several loaded magazines. The police would later identify it as a Tieguan knockoff of an old Socialist Union model. It could be traced back to gun runners in the mountains of Nabatho, but no further. Also hidden in his pockets were three old Kolhari grenades.
Seeing that he was being eyed suspiciously by a pair of mall security guards, the man decided it was time. He threw aside the coat and leveled his weapon at the two guards. He released a long burst, hitting both of them several times in a diagonal pattern. Immediately, panic struck. People were running and shouting, all the while the terrorist opened fire indiscriminately. At one point he noticed several people hiding inside a store, so he tossed one of his grenades in. The whole thing went on for only a short while before mall security and local police ended the massacre in a hail of bullets going the opposite direction, but it wasn’t short enough. Initial reports showed over twenty dead and at least forty wounded. Witnesses reported that the terrorist was shouting “Free Carruth!” and other popular separatist slogans.
Within a week, it was revealed that the man had been placed under surveillance by the intelligence and counterterrorism services due to his communications with known members of a radical separatist group, the Ostaran Liberation Party. Inexplicably, however, the government had lost track of him. He had disappeared, only to reappear weeks later at the mall in St. Guthbert. Several arrests followed, mostly separatists, especially Ostaran racial nationalists.
By the end of the second week, the Carruth Constabulary and the Royal Counterterrorism Task Force announced that they would be holding a joint press conference, one which the chancellor himself would be attending.
“I will not stand idly by while a foreign state meddles in our internal affairs,” the new chancellor declares before a huge crowd. “In our new administration, we will not allow foreign money, arms, and propaganda to support terrorism within our own borders. Look at Carruth! Look at St. Guthbert! Look at Hwearftun! These radical separatists, these despicable terrorists murder innocent men, women, and children to serve their disgusting agenda.
“These are the kinds of people that Brymme supports! For this, we must draw a line in the sand.” Dunstan looks straight into the camera. “Republic of Brymme! You must cease and desist your illegal, inhumane aiding and abetting of separatist elements in the Kingdom of Arrenland. Failure will result in severe consequences. No more!” He swiped the air with his arm and the crowd broke out in a deafening applause.
Quartyr 12
St. Guthbert was the capital and largest city on the island of Carruth, the largest overseas domain of the Kingdom of Arrenland. A vestigial remain from Arrenland’s colonial empire, Carruth was the first island south of the Brymmish Principality to be settled by Arrenland. Over time it became a prosperous, valuable asset. Sugarcane, indigo, coffee, and rice were grown in abundance on the large plantations throughout the island. Carruth made many a landowner extremely wealthy. Their wealth was built upon the backs of hundreds of thousands of indentured servants and Ostaran slaves. It was heavily invested in, with hundreds of millions of modern shillings-worth of infrastructure, settlement building, and fortification.
Today it remains in Arrenlander hands, and still retains millions of Ostarans - descendants of slaves - and the descendants of Arrene and Brymmish indentured servants and settlers. One of those Ostaran descendants walks into the second-busiest mall in St. Guthbert. He wears a long, dull-colored coat. Concealed within was a short submachine gun with several loaded magazines. The police would later identify it as a Tieguan knockoff of an old Socialist Union model. It could be traced back to gun runners in the mountains of Nabatho, but no further. Also hidden in his pockets were three old Kolhari grenades.
Seeing that he was being eyed suspiciously by a pair of mall security guards, the man decided it was time. He threw aside the coat and leveled his weapon at the two guards. He released a long burst, hitting both of them several times in a diagonal pattern. Immediately, panic struck. People were running and shouting, all the while the terrorist opened fire indiscriminately. At one point he noticed several people hiding inside a store, so he tossed one of his grenades in. The whole thing went on for only a short while before mall security and local police ended the massacre in a hail of bullets going the opposite direction, but it wasn’t short enough. Initial reports showed over twenty dead and at least forty wounded. Witnesses reported that the terrorist was shouting “Free Carruth!” and other popular separatist slogans.
Within a week, it was revealed that the man had been placed under surveillance by the intelligence and counterterrorism services due to his communications with known members of a radical separatist group, the Ostaran Liberation Party. Inexplicably, however, the government had lost track of him. He had disappeared, only to reappear weeks later at the mall in St. Guthbert. Several arrests followed, mostly separatists, especially Ostaran racial nationalists.
By the end of the second week, the Carruth Constabulary and the Royal Counterterrorism Task Force announced that they would be holding a joint press conference, one which the chancellor himself would be attending.