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26th Feb 2015 at 5:47 AM
26th Feb 2015 at 5:47 AM
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Here's my entry:
Scenario: Outer Space Politics/crime (war, in a sense)
Word Count(Article): 751
Word Count(Everything else): 141
article (extended)
Scenario: Outer Space Politics/crime (war, in a sense)
Word Count(Article): 751
Word Count(Everything else): 141
article (extended)
THE INVASION: For all that remember the hijacking of Trans-Galactic TG-1440, you know this isn't the first time the Hoastal Republic has tried to open up peace negotiations with the Industi Confederacy. After witnessing that disaster unfold before the eyes of billions, the President of the Republic has tried this since the disaster to reduce civilian loss of life. Here's an interview after what happened to Muna Major:
Journalist Alexander Kerensky: So, why have decided to try to put a treaty on the Industi Confederacy after every battle?
President of the Republic Joseph Miller: I have faith that they will see the light and stop killing our proud civilians. But as you have seen, it hasn't worked at all.
Kerensky: Have you considered putting more orbital guns and Apollo Rocketships against the Confederacy's overwhelming forces?
Miller: We tried that on Ikena, but it fell just as easily.
Kerensky: What about ambushes or better fed troops?
Miller: We certainly feed our troops enough, and all of our ambushes on the Confederacy have failed
Kerensky: Ever considered not lighting the birthday cakes you give them as food? Elderly don't fare well against the younger guys on the field. And the clunky armor doesn’t help their speed at all…
Miller: The birthday cake lighting is a custom that has existed since the dawn of the Republic. I know, I know, you’re going to say “Old customs are old! Throw them out! Out with the old and in with the new!” My response to that is: do you have any customs? Is anything sacred to you?
Kerensky: What I’m saying is that the birthday cake lighting is a bad idea. Listen, I practice the Solid Booster Festival and Republic Day. I have customs; nothing is wrong with those. But what I think is that the birthday cake lighting is aging your troops before they fight, making them more fragile than the Industi Confederacy when fighting.
Miller: I’ll get a board to investigate this cause. Until then, we will continue the customs.
Expect the Hoastal Republic to lose considerably more troops until they remove the custom.
More on the loss of Threshold II to the Industi Confederacy that was mentioned earlier. According to anonymous sources, the Confederacy first engaged in an orbital fight over the planet in the Poxull System against 2 Hoastal carriers: H.R.S 114-M4 Hare, and H.R.S. 114-M7 Arctic which were both destroyed by the inferior-but-better-crewed-ship, the I.C.S. Blumpop. The Hare crashed into a large, open-pit mine, while the Arctic leveled New City XXIV and destroyed the highway to New^15 Simcity. Refugees of New City XXIV are saying that the mayor of the city did it via a tractor beam located on the Prosper Room’s roof. There has yet to be any evidence of the supposed mayor’s tractor beam in the rubble of the city.
Ikena was a similar case of conquest. At first, the Confederacy knew it would be as easy to take as Thestra II, and sent two transport craft accompanied by the Blumpop. Orbital guns hit one of the transports, which promptly spun out of control and crashed into the orbital guns. The Confederacy then requested surrender from the planets militias, which was promptly accepted when Ikena realized their militia was nothing but 75-year-olds. Many sources, including Simweekly, are attributing it to the Republic’s birthday cake lighting before planetary battles. How’s that for proof, Hoastal Republic?
Journalist Alexander Kerensky: So, why have decided to try to put a treaty on the Industi Confederacy after every battle?
President of the Republic Joseph Miller: I have faith that they will see the light and stop killing our proud civilians. But as you have seen, it hasn't worked at all.
Kerensky: Have you considered putting more orbital guns and Apollo Rocketships against the Confederacy's overwhelming forces?
Miller: We tried that on Ikena, but it fell just as easily.
Kerensky: What about ambushes or better fed troops?
Miller: We certainly feed our troops enough, and all of our ambushes on the Confederacy have failed
Kerensky: Ever considered not lighting the birthday cakes you give them as food? Elderly don't fare well against the younger guys on the field. And the clunky armor doesn’t help their speed at all…
Miller: The birthday cake lighting is a custom that has existed since the dawn of the Republic. I know, I know, you’re going to say “Old customs are old! Throw them out! Out with the old and in with the new!” My response to that is: do you have any customs? Is anything sacred to you?
Kerensky: What I’m saying is that the birthday cake lighting is a bad idea. Listen, I practice the Solid Booster Festival and Republic Day. I have customs; nothing is wrong with those. But what I think is that the birthday cake lighting is aging your troops before they fight, making them more fragile than the Industi Confederacy when fighting.
Miller: I’ll get a board to investigate this cause. Until then, we will continue the customs.
Expect the Hoastal Republic to lose considerably more troops until they remove the custom.
More on the loss of Threshold II to the Industi Confederacy that was mentioned earlier. According to anonymous sources, the Confederacy first engaged in an orbital fight over the planet in the Poxull System against 2 Hoastal carriers: H.R.S 114-M4 Hare, and H.R.S. 114-M7 Arctic which were both destroyed by the inferior-but-better-crewed-ship, the I.C.S. Blumpop. The Hare crashed into a large, open-pit mine, while the Arctic leveled New City XXIV and destroyed the highway to New^15 Simcity. Refugees of New City XXIV are saying that the mayor of the city did it via a tractor beam located on the Prosper Room’s roof. There has yet to be any evidence of the supposed mayor’s tractor beam in the rubble of the city.
Ikena was a similar case of conquest. At first, the Confederacy knew it would be as easy to take as Thestra II, and sent two transport craft accompanied by the Blumpop. Orbital guns hit one of the transports, which promptly spun out of control and crashed into the orbital guns. The Confederacy then requested surrender from the planets militias, which was promptly accepted when Ikena realized their militia was nothing but 75-year-olds. Many sources, including Simweekly, are attributing it to the Republic’s birthday cake lighting before planetary battles. How’s that for proof, Hoastal Republic?