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OzzyKP
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Rockville, MD
Oct 1999 time: 00:32
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President Bonaparte and Foreign Minister Metternich call Captain Smithfield into his office to get his report on the recent world war, more specifically the Battle of Budva where the Azande captured the Serb city of Budva.
Metternich - "As our two allies were at war with each other recently, you must imagine the position this places us into. We remained neutral throughout the war, but not without uneasy feelings from both our friends I fear. If there is any nation who should play peacemaker between these two nations it is us. It is quite frustrating however that we were left out of the entire arrangement. Furthermore, neither one of our allies gave us any information as to how the war unfolded. It is my understanding however that your trading vessel as in the middle of the great Battle of Budva."
Smithfield - "Um, yes sir."
Bonaparte - "So please deliver your report on the battle. What happened?"
Smithfield - "Umm, I'm afraid I can't do that sir."
Bonaparte - "Why not?!"
Smithfield - "I..just have nothing to report."
Bonaparte - "This is a matter of national importance. If you are holding back information you will be found treasonous and executed. Now answer me, what happened at the Battle of Budva?"
Smithfield - "I don't know...."
Metternich - "Your ship was docked at Budva during the battle, correct?"
Smithfield - "Yes sir. We were about to deliver our goods to the port."
Bonaparte - "Then how on earth could you not know what happened at the battle?!"
Smithfield - "We were... uh... how to say this. Umm... we were asleep sir."
Bonaparte - "Asleep?!!"
Metternich - "It was a major military engagement. Our two closest friends and allies entered a major war with each other, reaching its apex no more than a few hundred meters from your ship, and you say you slept through the entire battle?"
Smithfield - "...yes sir."
Bonaparte - "Cannon bombardment, musket fire, screaming, death, destruction, battle, fire, you slept through all this?"
Smithfield - "My crew are heavy sleepers, sir."
Bonaparte - "Un-f*cking-believable. Guards, seize this man. Throw him in jail and bring him up on charges."
Guard - "On what charges?"
Bonaparte - "I dunno, extreme incompetance in the line of duty and failure to remain awake during important world events. Make sure his crew never sails a ship for this nation again."
Guard - "Yes sir."
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Frank Johnson
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Houston, TX
Jan 1970 time: 23:32
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China's modernization efforts had been huge in rescent years. The plan undertaken was so broad in scope that it required much of the national budget to be spent on infastructure for industrial and military purposes, but the pay off was already becoming clear. While perhaps not as well equiped as some troops, the quality of Chinese soldiers were improving, with well trained units pouring out of training camps with the new weapons pouring out of Chinese factories.
With the help of foreign technologies, more efforts were undertaken to improve the raw production of materials, and China's rail network neared completion in the mainland sections of the country. A string of defensive forts defended the countries boarders.
Naval commanders were given fleets of dreadnoughts, as well as a new task, control the seas of the pacific from hostile interests. Already naval commanders were pursureing a superdreadnought class battleship, however these plans were still in the making at the Shanghai harbour facility.
A wave of nationalism had overcome the Chinese, although they still clunge to their democratic ways. Scandals involving Azandine market dumping led to a complete ban of imports from the Azandine nation, much to the ****rin of the growing Chinese industrialists, who were now more able to supply the country with the goods neccessary for a modern nation.
Having seen that the Azandine had lost their largest and most luceretive market, in the Chinese, that was not the final blow. Leaders of all 6 major nations excluding the Azandine signed the treaty of Dacca, prohibiting Azandine shipping and freight imports. The Chinese were stunned at their success. Behind closed doors the Azandine made pathetic offers of gold to allow caravans to enter China, but they were declined immediately, and taken only as an insult to our national integrity. In the end, the bribe was pathetic, since it only ammount to 25% the real value of the trade. The Chinese naval commander vowed to step up ship production to meet any possible threat.
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