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Showing The Flag (OOC thread)

Posted: Aug 19 2010, 11:47 PM

This discussion happened on #nssport. It will give some context to Showing The Flag.

<Falcania> notice your fleet's on my shores again
<Sarzonia> Yep.
<Falcania> jus like old times innit?
<Sarzonia> Yep.
<Falcania> you planning on intervening in my war?
<Falcania> one of my factions wants a word with your government
<Sarzonia> Depends what they want.
<Sarzonia> And depends whether it's compatible with Sarzonian interests.

<Falcania> most likely, to not endorse the other two factions
<Sarzonia> I'll most likely need a OOC rundown of who's who and what their plans are.
<Falcania> OK
<Falcania> Faction 1: The Protectorate, AKA the Union troops
* Aalnordhavn gave the significant other. Good morning back massage

<Falcania> they're the forces under the command of Lord Tarrick, the evil dictator who is currently in charge of Falcania
<Falcania> Faction 2: Quicksilver
<Falcania> the plucky guerilla resistance who want to install another King on the throne
<Falcania> Faction 3: the Republican Militia
<Falcania> they are soldiers loyal to former Quicksilver turncoat Smith Cockroft, who claims to want to install a Republic in Falcania
<Sarzonia> "Claims"?
<Sarzonia> My initial reading is he has other aims in mind just from this description.
<Falcania> OOC, the Protectorate want to maintain a dictatorial stranglehold on Falcania, the Republicans do not actually want a republic but instead cleanse all Falcanians (including themselves) from the face of the earth
<Falcania> because we're disgusting bird freaks
<Falcania> and Quicksilver wants to bring things to pretty much the way they were before the war, albeit probably slightly more grown-up
<Sarzonia> Hmm
<Sarzonia> I obviously wouldn't be able to pick up on what *exactly* Cockroft wants straight away ICly
<Falcania> IC, the Protectorate has been on pretty shaky ground, pulling Falcania into deep isolationism, and if Sarzonian spies are halfway up to scratch, they know that Quicksilver has been aided by Bazalonian operatives
<Sarzonia> but it would make sense if I RP'd my top military brass sensing something's not right.
<HockeyCanada> you SDL bastards
<Falcania> SDL died a death
<Sarzonia> I'm sure one of our spies could detect Bazalonian equipment.
<Sarzonia> Or Bazalonian-style training.
<Vephrall> it wouldn't be hard
<Falcania> so the way the war actually is at the moment, is that open war is about to break out between the Militia and the Union, with Quicksilver running guerilla interference of both factions
<Vephrall> just look for something with a misspelled label

<Falcania> meanwhile Sarzonia's first fleet is parked just outside of Falcania's coastal defence range
<Sarzonia> Which of the factions wants to speak with the Sarzonian government?
<Falcania> Quicksilver does, as the voice of reason
<Falcania> Tarrick is basically mad
<Falcania> and Cockroft is Ze Chessmaster
<Falcania> you will know that Quicksilver's main committee is comprised mainly of senior civil servants, ministers and one internationally-renowned master thief
<Sarzonia> Once Sarzonia's intelligence community gets its full report, my government will agree to the meeting.
<Falcania> I'm glad you're here, Sarz, nobody else plays with me anymore
<Sarzonia> <Vephrall> just look for something with a misspelled label

<--- How else do you think Sarzonian military and spies identify Bazalonian equipment?

<Sarzonia> As for the meeting, the purely selfish part of Sarzonian top brass will see working with Quicksilver as a great chance to introduce some instablility into the war.
<Sarzonia> Do you want to create a OOC thread on the AO Forums so we can put this someplace where we can easily access what we're talking about here?

Sarzonia

It's all about the Navy.

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Posted: Aug 20 2010, 09:20 AM

I was thinking of one of two possibilities to bring the Quicksilver delegation to meet with my government official(s), and we could potentially combine them.

One: My operatives could launch a secret mission under the cover of night, sneak in and nab the officials who want to meet with my government and then take them out to the fleet. From there, one of my ships could either sail back to Sarzonia and take them to meet with one of my officials or have the official already be there and meet with him aboard the ship.

Two: My operatives could either enlist a Falcanian who would escort the Quicksilver people to a waiting boat that would take them to the fleet or could disguise themselves as Falcanians. Then they perhaps wouldn't be discovered as foreigners until it was too late (and they were already at the fleet.)

Sarzonia

It's all about the Navy.

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Posted: Aug 20 2010, 11:21 AM

Option one seems best to be honest. Although in actuality if Sarzonian forces could provide a method of extraction (skyhook etc) the Quicksilver operatives would probably be capable of Special Forcing themselves out of the country.