Royal Conquests

Arcy

Nearly all of the Crown's war actions in one convenient spot to read

Arcy

[copypasted from https://sparkalia.com/d/281-crown-royal-happenings/24 so we know where we left off from]

[Royal Conquests]

Battalions of soldiers, mechs, and other equipment were shipped off to somewhere 60 km from the border between the Crown and the two republics of South Estathan and Otrorheim. The forces were relatively spread out, in a line, as more battalions pile in. Rows and rows of men, women, and machine all wait for the order, passing time by goofing in the sand.

New weapons of war are moved over in secret, even to the commanding officers. Unknown metallic beasts created from the minds of the Crown's brightest or insane minds. Some have legs, some have tracks. Some are able to force fire into places where it never normally should be and some don't even need to touch to kill.
[High-pressure flamethrowers, capable of shooting a plume of fire 150 meters into crevices around 10 meters small. Penetrating power estimated 10mm] [Prototype sonic weapon]
It was decided that some weapons like the chemical electrogun system from Yulsan won't be used as it's far too costly in it's current form. But most systems were let into the conflict so mechs like the prototype GPU Mk5 are all on standby.

The generals however haven't been moved yet. It's only a partial mobilization, and more preparations are still needed. Like justifications against both states. To this end, the KAS [Korolja-Abteilung für Spionageabwehr] has been hard at work, getting their human agents undetected into the capitals and other cities, instigating anti-shark racism and other stuff. The spies are in the republic's goverments too, mainly confirming that the South Estathan's parliament is gridlocked by parties who won't cooperate and that the Otrorheim's goverment is nearly dysfunctional. However, what money left that hasn't been embezzled is invested in making their army better, or it seems like it. In note of the Otrorheim Republic's perceived higher military strength, more battalions will be mobilized to deal with them.

Something's bound to happen soon...

Arcy

[Defense of the Republic]

In the desert, away from all the chaos of the city, a commander receives a letter.
"Hmm, letter from the General? Hmm... Attack the Crown?"
He thinks for a bit, scratching his hair
"That's risky... Hmm... I guess we're going to war then. Better follow his orders or i get court martialed."

The commander of the Otrorheim Republic's border guard gathers all of his avalible soldiers together under a tent to make the announcement.
"Ok, gentlemen, women, and other species or people, I got a letter from the General. Says here we attack the Crown. Any thoughts before we start?"
"They brought half of their armed forces to our border" says one of the lieutenants "Against the estimated numbers, we're one against a thousand."
"Well, i see your concern, but then what happens if we don't attack then?"
"Oh, right, we get nationally shamed."
"So, if we go now, we can probably defect to the Crown and avoid being stoned to death. We all want to live, so we'll 'attack'."
"Are we all going to run to the Crown?" asked another soldier
"Seems like it. Safer than dying for a 'elected' Prime Minister that doesn't care for the nation."
"Good point."

A few more questions about the attack, and then a moment of silence.
"We really are going to defect. Coward move, i know, but we get a new start. Somewhere by the ocean. It's going to be fine, i can assure you all that."
"It would be nice, to move to the seaside" said the soldier. "No general to threaten you with death and stuff, no dubious prime minister..."
"We move by dawn" the Commander announces, "Make as many surrender flags as you can. No point in fighting them, they have nearly a million on the border, and we only have a hundred."

In the soldier's mind, and many others, this Commander actually cares unlike the others, who shout orders, glory, and threaten. But he is an old man after all, who's seen the worst battles. Such a man, so knowledgeable about the Art of War, and the world at large...
Drifting off to sleep on a sleeping bag, believing, hoping tomorrow to be a good day...

Arcy

[Crown Conquests]

In the middle of the day, in the smoldering heat, by the border at the large camp, a sleepy shork. She's been guarding the gate from midnight, as the 6 AM to 0PM/12AM shork got heatstroke. Not great, being so eepy...

In the distance, she sees through her half-shut eyes a... truck? two? are those tanks? What flag is that? Why are there so much of them, she thinks as she jolts awake at the sight of what appeared to be a combined force going directly to them. But wait, they are waving white flags. What do white flags mean again.. surrender?
The guard shork sounds the alarm, and the Commander was met with confused relaxed shork soldiers from the seaside.

"I would like to request asylum in the Crown, along with my fellow men" the Commander said calmly
"Oh, surrender. Seems like we got all worried for nothing." The shark then turns around, "Get the General over! We got some POW's!"
One of the soldiers gulped in fear, but then realizes, it's the other army's general. So no worries.
A while later, a commander from one of the Kronen-Speer divisions comes over. It's revealed that they call her General as she's effectively one for the time being.

"Surrendering before the war started? Odd. But less blood to shed, so it's ok. I'll write some paperwork, you all wait in the tent over there."
The 'General' points to a empty tent. It's relatively clean.
"While we get your mugshots, ID's and other, you lot go sit there and get cozy. To make this quick, how many of you are here, and how many vehicles did you bring?"
"In total, with me, it's 122 personnel. We have 4 T-55's, 5 trucks, 4 armored trucks and that's about it."
"Thank you, Commander. makes my job a lot easier."

"That was easy, Commander" says one of the soldiers as the 'prisoners' all walk to their temporary home "I was expecting something a lot worse."
"Oh, it will be a lot harder for the others after us. The Crown is famed for killing too much during a war. They don't take prisoners normally like other states do. What I predict is we'll be interrogated for useful intelligence, and then we get to go to a seaside town under protection for the rest of our lives."
"How do you know?"
"I studied the ways, read a lot of history. You should read a history book later, it contains a lot of important advice."
"Will you miss home?"
"Of course. But I'm sure I can get more books later."

Arcy

[Royal Conquests]

Four hours after the announcement at 1 PM, finally, the armies start advancing northward. Engines rev, and entire collums of steel run down the roads and the air.
[ announcement : https://sparkalia.com/d/281-crown-royal-happenings/29 ]

[Battle of the (Estathanian) Border]

The first attack to happen is the Battle of the South Estathanian Border, an estimated 2,000 border patrol units against several battalions, averaging in total of 25 thousand armed soldiers and others. it lasted from 3 PM to 4.15 PM.

The battle only lasted for an hour, as most of the Estathanian guards had only ever faced smugglers and not armies. Despite their best efforts, the last of their resistance was ended when a squad of GPU Mk4 walkers with 240mm howitzers blew up their fortified outpost base at point blank. The explosions all happened so fast, and now all of a sudden, the Crown's armies were 20 kilometers into the Estathanian border.

[Battle of the (Otrorheim) Border]

Next on the chopping block was the Otrorheimer border. Their border guard was less armed, and had worse training. Nearly all of the 2,000 border guards surrendered when they saw the large armies advancing, with only a noble few trying to fight, but instead they get immobilized, later restrained and grouped with the other prisoners of war. The battle only lasted a staggering 20 minutes, from 4.32 PM to 4.53 PM

They will be transferred to the not-so-nearby Magadan in the Crown's eastern area to be held in proper prisoner conditions, and to decide if they were to release them or do other things.

[Battle(?) for the (Estathanian) oil fields]

The Crown army blitzed their way to capture one of their goals, the large Estathanian oil fields. The army was met with little resistance, and it only took a minute to take over. The oil fields were fortified and given AAA and SAM sites to defend against what they might throw their way.

At 7.55 PM, the Crown Army finished their dinner break in the oil fields, and picked up their pace. A garrison of 1,500 shorks were left to defend while the Kronen-Speer approach from behind, probably in two days days, by the 8th of Lyncis. After all, the planes have to go a long distance. While waiting, they check, and the rumors are true. This is one of the largest oil fields in eastern Pelia. Sadly all the money for it went to... offshore bank accounts in the Crown. What a shame.

Arcy

[Royal Conquests]

The battles and actions that happened in 7th of Lyncis.

[Battle of the Wüstenstaat]

The Crown Army manage to rush directly into the Estathanian's largest province capital, the one that shares the absurdly large border with the Crown. At first, the Crown deployed some the 240mm howitzer walker units from last battle, and did manage to put a gaping hole into their defenses, but they could not advance on time due to the well-defended fortifications. Seeing that progress is not going as fast, a Crown General ordered one of the Crown's most powerful superweapons forth, the GPU Mk5 [Prototype] bipedal walkers.
The walkers stand at 8 meters tall, have new legs and a GPU Mk4 body. The head cannot move, but the new monoeye can go 360 degrees, along with new sensors on the head.
Deploying a squadron of those units was easy, the four units were catapulted into the air by... being strapped onto ICBM rockets... Not the prettiest or most reliable way, but they got sent up 2 kilometers into the air. They fell down from the sky, blasting away at the enemy positions and landed in the provincial capital, stomping on tanks and people. Thanks to these units daredeviling from the air, the enemy force was swiftly defeated at 4 in the morning, and the gates were opened.

[Skirmish of the Dunes]

Yes, the Otrorheiman soldiers were really in a bad situation. Remains of what wasn't hit with machine gun rounds reveal that what was left of the gutted out army had been issues not even cardboard plates, but just pillows. Just pillows. Their rifles easily jammed and their helmets crumpled when hit softly with a pipe.
The Crown's forces were ambushed constant until near noon, when they finished off the remaining technical with a 240mm howitzer at point blank again.
Other than that, it's smooth sailing. Taking towns, securing oil fields and open air mine pits, with little to no resistance. it's a bit unsettling, to think where the good enemy units are. What sort of super soldier could they have made that the rest of the army needed to starve so they can supply it? There's no evidence at the moment, but it's unsettling...

[Attached image : Crown MK5 [P] units engaging Estathanian fortifications]

Arcy

[Royal Conquests]

On the 8th of Lyncis, the Kronen-Speer divisions, the auxiliary division, and the logistics finally caught up to the secondary lines. Now with the full might of the Crown at hand, all the battles up ahead were won with sheer technological advancement and just having so much of a specific unit.

As one can expect, they would meet the national guards, the patriots with guns, and some others. In the span of two days alone, they were only a few cities away from forcing the Otrorheim Republic into capitulation, and for South Estathan, it's a bit of a mess. Their army is far better compared to the more corrupt republic it neighbours [Otrorheim], but not enough to push it back. Already, a few service members have passed, but the Crown's armies forced the republic's armies to run away, sustaining extremely heavy losses, to the point where only one soldier could survive out of a thousand that went in to fight the Crown.

No major battles happened on the 10th of Lyncis. Mostly just the Crown Army advancing through deserts and savannas.

Arcy

[still have a bit of a roadblock for rp, may not be up to standard]

[Royal Conquests]

As you can expect, a few battles happened. Total Crown losses are at an impressive 200 wounded and none dead for now. The Otrorheim Republic has around 25,000 captured and 1,000 dead, around 26,000 losses in total. For South Estathan, their losses were far greater, around 40,500 dead, and only 2,000 captured, from surprise attacks. In total around 43 thousand lost.
Now, on the 18th of Lyncis, the Crown forces at long last arrive at the Otrorheim capital. A familiar person leads the charge, being the Kronen-Speer soldier, 'Grey'. The shark picks up her rifle with her battered hand, and prepares for a last stand.

[Battle of Koln]

Yes, that's the Otrorheim's capital name. Koln. & in the morning in the 18th of Lyncis, the Kronen-Speer 2nd Division breaks into the suburbs and begins urban warfare. IFV's and mechs clash, tanks blast apart each other, and soldiers mostly played cat and mice.

play music : GLORY - OGRYZIK _ SLOWED REVERB
The air turned to ash and flames, as it usually does. Artillery shells of all sizes rain down on the capital, breaking apart most fortifications. Bunker buster shells take care of the thicker ones, and high explosive rounds empty entire military camps. GPU Mk5 units engage in CQB with enemy golems, and dump entire magazines high explosive into apartment buildings. It's a warcrime, sure, but the wizards hid there in the first place. So they are allowed.
Up above, airships and airwings of planes clash, along with dragons and the likes. Airships tumble down onto more buildings, potentially killing more civilians.
Down below, 'Grey' is with the 2nd Division, dragging the flagbearer along in one arm, with the other holding onto her battle rifle. Mowing down the Othroheim soldiers was easy, as they had poor hiding skills, and she didn't have to worry about bullets as most of her division are fielding special plates that deflect projectiles. It's experimental, so it will be taken away after the battle. The flagbearer had been scared, and there was no time, so the dragged her in rather than take the standard herself. Bullets zip across and explosions ring the air, but onwards they pushed. But then, the inner city walls raised themselves.
stop music :
play music : cricket sfx, arabian evening sfx.

Cool, they spent money on a stereotypical evil superlair. No wonder. The soldiers pull out of the city, making way for the GPU Mk5 MS and other mechs to rain hell on the city. By the end of the day, the center stands but the rest of the city is erased by concentrated shelling. The sharks set up camp a bit father from the city in case they decided to turn the city into a mech and do funny stuff.

Arcy

[retcon]

Koln has no supervillan shield. Rather than that, replace it with Battle of Berlin.

[Battle of Koln]

The fighting was grueling. Near-crazed loyalists forced kids and elders, and reluctant soldiers grinded against the Crown's military industrial complex of an army. No matter what they did though, it was all for naught.
[Finally, some character rp.]
Artillery fire from nearly all angles rang the city above. The Prime Minister of Otroheim is in his bunker under the presidential palace. There's no more hope. Their last hope from outside the city, General Steiner, surrendered to the Crown Army. No counterattack, no escape, not even guns or pills, as they all had been used up in the war effort.

The main door is torn off by a GPU Mk5. 'Grey' along with a newly-made friend, 'Beige', and a whole other platoon run in first. They run down and handcuff some people and shoot dome guards in the head. 'Grey' thought she ran out of ammo after the third magazine, and in the heat of the moment, bashes her rifle stock against a guard's head 28 times. Then, she swings the stock up some other guard's jaw, tearing it off.

Arcy

The other guards attempt to fire, but run in fear as the platoon chucks around 10 grenades in the general direction. The hallway is smoked, and the guards die disoriented and fearful, as 'Grey' recklessly murders them one by one with the buttock of her rifle.
With 'Grey' doing as she does, the platoon use her as a shield, as they push deeper into the bunker. Eventually, they end up in front of the PM's private room. Seeing it's locked, the shorks decide to stuff as much TNT as they can on the door, about 4kg of c4, oriented in a way so it blows the reinforced steel door clean open.

on 28 Lyncis, in 9.32 PM, the reinforced door that kept the PM safe was blown open. The door launched itself and crushed something, and the small platoon, now reinforced by more soldiers pour in into the gilded room full of marble, ivory, and a lot more luxury materials.
'Gray', unrestrained by her commander, broke one of the glass displays and tore out of it a longsword. The PM of Ortorheim shrieked in fear, and tried to run to seemingly anotner exit, But before he can touch the wall, a sudden sharp pain in his leg. 'Grey' threw the sword, and it went through from this knee.
"Mercy!" he cries. "Don't do it!" says her comrades as the realization sets in.
Grey pounces on the old man and tears out the blade. She screams as she plunges her blade into the old man's chest.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
Stab, stab, the sound of flesh being punctured and bones cracking. The old man's blood flowed down onto the blue carped and stains it purple, for no reason at all. After a while, after the man looked as if he has been shot by a machine gun, 'Grey' stands up.

"Problem solved." she says, as she looks at her commander. "Now can we move on?"
"Oh Neptune... we needed him..." her commander sighs. "...We needed to put him on trial. But since he's dead, might as well say it was insubordination."

Arcy

whoopsie, i forgot

[Battle of Koln]

Enemy forces :
Unknown wounded, Unknown dead. Causalities estimated severe.
Crown forces:
5000 wounded, 400 dead. Casualties minimal, for a decisive batttle this big.

Battle start on 18 Lyncis and ended on 28 Lyncis.

Battle orders issued from Army High Command to units in battlefield :
Kroen-Speer Division No. 5 and 6 rerouted to Estathan Front
Kroen-Speer Division No. 3 recalled due to lack of soldiers
Konigsjager Prototype Mobile Suit Division 12, 16, 18 rerouted to Estathan Front
Konigsjager prototype Mobile Suit Division 17 recalled for R&D
Konigsjager Mechanized Artilery Division 13, 14, 45 rerouted to Estathan Front
Battle orders issued from Army High Command to units in transport :
Croen Armee Mechanized Infantry Division 72, 77, 78, 79, 201, 220, 223 rerouted to Estathan Front
Croen Armee Tank Divisions 80, 92, 99, 102, 105 rerouted to Estathan Front
Croen Armee Artillery Divisions 720, 788, 789 rerouted to Estathan Front
Miscellaneous medical and maintenence units have been automatically rerouted.

At the end of the battle, a certain Kroen-Speer soldier named 'Gray' was reprimanded for killing a target. Rank promoted from soldier to lieutenant.
[Failing upwards]

Battle data showing the capabilities of Crown GPU MK4 units with top-mounted artillery pieces and the success is forwarded to Yulsan military officials
[ @Cheonghae ]

Arcy

[ Battle of Estathan's capital ]

[ 8 Audax 1613 AR ] [ Outskirts of capital ]

The Konigsjager Mechanized Artilery Divisions and the Croen Armee Artillery Divisions arrive first, protected by their respective army and Speer units. Hundreds of thousands of mortar 420mm, rapid fire 800mm, 155mm howitzers and all manner of artillery all point at the capital. The Crown tanks and IFV's start eating away at the handful remaining of the Estathan armoured divisions, inflicting massive amounts of M-kills and K-kills.

A BMD-4 busts through the wall. The Estathan war cabinet is interrupted.
'Gray' opens the hatch, and sits up, holding a MG3.
"You surrendering or no?" she cheekily asks. "If you decide otherwise, then, eh, you can see what happens."
The general of the Estathan looks at 'Grey', in shock
"H-how... how did you get in... with a whole IFV..."
'Grey' points at the gate, blown to pieces by a rapid-fire 800mm.

"You left the door open. Oh, right."
She opens another hatch, her commander pops out
"Bonjour, ministers. What my private here is saying is if you surrender now, you get to restart over your life and livei n peace."
The general looks at Grey's commander. "Uh... yeah.. I guess."
One of the ministers snaps back, "Are you really going to let them take our nation!-"
"Gregory, if we don't, they will level this city to zero with their artillery. Reports from the airwing before the flak got them was that they had over a thousand guns aimed at us." The general snaps back. "Besides, it is already lost from the start. The Crown was crazy enough to dump half of their army on us, and let loose their Speers on us."
"So yes, I surrender. And i also ask for you to take me and my family into safety." The general says, as he climbs aboard the IFV.
Gray helps him aboard, and into the hatch. "Well, ministers, who else wants to go?"
The ministers all look at each other, and nod
"Too bad, we only had seat for one. Bye!" Gray drops back down the BMD, and slams the hatch. Her commander drops in too.

The ministers all scram, and started to get up, as the BMD rolls away, and fires a HE round into the hole, clearing out what remains of the war room. And then the creature of a tonk turns around and drives into the sunset.
The incident was short, but it was like shooting the brain of a zombie. Now with no command, all the Estathan forces slowly fall into disorganization as they face off against artillery they cannot see and tanks they cannot kill.
A war without reason.

Arcy

[ Ending the War ]

[ 12 Audax 1613 AR ] [ Korolya ] [ Royal Conquests ]

At long last, the war is over. What was predicted to be a easy war, won in a month, was indeed won in a month. The Crown's armies parade, soldiers are welcomed home. The factories roll out new ammunition, new tanks to replace the old. The war was a success for the Crown.

Most of the soldiers never even got shot at. Some only got a few bullet wounds. But as usual, the Kroen-Speer needs to be pruned again. Platoons of the Kroen-Speer were relieved of duty due to PTSD related ailments. They recieved medals from Emperess Kohl herself, but it feels like the Emperess herself is apologizing to them for their pain rather than awarding them for their valor. Brushing that aside, the Emperess delivers a victory speech. Blah blah blah it was right and so and so. The Glowstone Fey she got to write her speech made a very good one.

In the Winter Palace's war room, the displays are getting an upgrade, from a red and black LCD display array to newer multicolor LED panel arrays. The computers get upgrades, even some adjacent rooms get cut apart to make room for more advanced equipment. More stuff, newer interior. So the war room is moved to the old one, the one with maps that was advanced for... the 1300's. So for now, they moved the big table with the map out, and dragged in the old red and black LCD matrix, reorganized into a table. So now they can still do war stuff.

The Glowstone Isles get new equipment, in the form of the Otroheim Air Force's only airship... the OAF's 'Desert Storm' and the Estastan's Air Force's airship fleet of 80 ships of varying sizes. A big win for the Fey. Other captured stuff got put in museums and stuff. Yay for history. The other side effects? No, there won't. The Crown's elder mages and wizards took to their posts to go clean up the mess now.

Afterall, this is the only way it could have ended.
[ultrakill references go brrr]

Arcy

[ New year! ]

[ 3st of Primo 1614 ] [ base is classified i dunno where it is ] [ Crown Conquests ]
New year, new stuff as they say. A new flurry of technologies are under way.

Up first is the 'Corai Shark' project. This takes the Korolyan technological edge that is DNA editing, and a few other advances in bioengineering to essentially make a new shark from base components. To see how they would fare compared to normal sharjs, talks with Japulie over how to raise the clone will be underway.

Second, would be the 'Mobile Suit' project. But much hasn't been done as of late due to more effort invested into integrating conquered land. As of now, no new MS, as the funds are too small to make new units. On aa related note, the General Purpose Walker MK4 [ GPU MK4 ] are undergoing the 1613 modernization plan, with more efficient turbines and all.

In the Navy, not much to do. Just engine efficiency and better room layout. In the Air? Same thing. Boring improvement work. But someone's gotta make it 10% more survivable, right?

Arcy

[ Corai Sharks ]

[ 3st of Primo 1614 ] [ the basement, Korolja University ] [ Crown Conquests ]
[ @Japuile ]
One would assume the Korolja University does not have biology classes. But they have all kinds of engineering, and they just opened up the bioengineering courses.

Down in the newly-constructed basement levels, there's the new staff rooms. Then there's a small group of pods, holding inside... artificial sharks! They had been marinating, growing inside for a whole year, and now that they had access to another nation's cloning guide, they could start now...

Could is a long stretch though. For one, the Corai currently have unstable bodies. Suspended in an artificial concoction of fluids, for their own good, as gravity would tear their bones apart if they came out now.
"They need at least six more months before they can stand" says one of the scientists. "If we even can upload a shark's memories into this body."
"Well, we'll find out along the way" sighs the chief scientist. "How are vitals looking?"
"Usual. 50 BPM, oxygen concentration 99. We managed to stabilize metabolism and now we won't have to keep injecting gallons of ATP for sustained growth."
"That's a breakthrough. For the project at least. Did you fill the bodies with double the needed proteins?"
"Yes. A bit more, but it's working."

The chief scientist adjusted his glasses, and looked at the diagnostic screens. "What about brain activity?"
"Still none" she sighs "Practically a vegetable. But it's better than the other's batch."
"The one in the military base?"
"Yep. They got all the mages and tech and accidentally turned the Corai vessels into pressurized magical fuel. Funniest shit i've heard in a long time."
He looks away from the displays. "You fr?"
"Yep! I got this from my friend at the base. They just chalked it up to the junior writing the runes wrong, and sacked the poor girl."
"Rough. Talk about a bad day at work." He chuckled, as he turns a few valves.

"Whatcha doin?"
"Obvious. Just add more proteins and building materials. Should speed it up."
"How much? four times?"
"Pretty much. Can't go up to full instantly."
"Good point... What else can we do though?"
"Something that doesn't need mages, preferably" he chuckles. She laughs along too.

"Oh, the look on their faces when the underdogs win... I can almost imagine that general's anger..."
"Wkwkwkw... hahh... can't breathe, shit too funny.."
"Right, back to work. So what can we do?"
"Oh, i've got an idea. Start sending electric signals into the brain. Something to check if we wired it properly."
"Didn't we do that already?" He says, as he looks into the medical records.
"Yeah, but into the emotion sectors. Who knows if we're raising psychopaths?"
"Oh, right. Good idea... I'll phone in the doctors from the Korolya Central Hospital then."

The Corai shark surprisingly shares as much DNA to the Croen shark as homo sapiens do with neanderthals. THey changed a few things, but no one's sure what they did, and if it was the higher up's or the scientists themselves...

Arcy

[Retcons]

It's that time of year again, where stuff is changed.

Due to Corai Shark plotline, regular shork heights are dropped from 195 to 180 cm.
'Grey' shark storyline is postponed indefinitely.
Stories from now on will acknowledge the Crown is mostly Mediterranean, not Northern European climate.

Arcy

[Quick RP Post]

[ 7th of Primo 1614 ] [ Somewhere in the Golden Sea ] [ Crown Conquests ]
[ @Japuile ]
[ https://sparkalia.com/d/70-the-economics-of-japuile/10 ]
[ https://sparkalia.com/d/70-the-economics-of-japuile/13 ]
[ https://sparkalia.com/d/281-crown-royal-happenings/17 ]
[ https://sparkalia.com/d/281-crown-royal-happenings/19 ]

The 'Great Turtle' class of heavy-duty semi-submersibles have had a pretty uneventful work life, mostly aiding in refloating smaller vessels, and supporting the battleship CRN Prince of Magadan's bow after the B turret sent itself flying and the turret magazine blew straight through the double-layered hull and surrounding rooms. The CRN 'Tick' and CRN 'Bug' received some additional armour plating and reinforcing of the hull, new and improved radar and sonar, along with machine gun and anti-air emplacements. Most of the refits mainly consisted of upgrading technologies, relabeling, so on and so forth. But there are plans to swap out the pumps for better ones, and for more efficient engines.

But as of recent, both ships just went about performing auxiliary duties for the Crown Royal Navy, and transported many floating launch platforms for Winster's 20 million fireworks performace into place at the shore. It also seems the Crown is eager to make more ships of similar size to the 'Great Turtle' class of ships. So now, Emperess Kohl is sending Mikoyan Sukol, now demoted to Admiral over some arguments with the other Lord Admirals and a general restructuring of the military during the Liberation campaign.

What did Sukol argue about? Probably about logistics, as she was the Head of Military Operations. She had overriden a few generals and did some political shenanigans, and Emperess Kohl demoted her to get the war wrapped up faster. It's had some effect on Sukol, but with this new opportunity, she can make things right, and at least be acknowledged as still loyal. Accompanying Sukol on the CR Dremur, newly retrofitted to have more interception systems to prevent itself from dying, in line with it's goals as a diplomatic ship, is Lord Admiral Prince of Magadan, going there onboard her own personal ship, the CRN Prince of Magadan. Kohl ordered the Prince to go accompany Sukol, as the Emperess still doubts Sukol, and needs one of her closest allies to keep her in line.

I like big boats and i cannot lie

Arcy

[Quick RP Post]

[ 31th of Primo 1614 ] [ Somewhere in the Golden Sea ] [ Crown Conquests ]

The Golden Sea, crown of the Crown Royal Navy's Home Fleet It's a series of battleships from between 1450 and 1550. A battleship to trump other battleships, a ship to end all ships. It's about 300-500 meters long and about 100 ish meters long. It's estimated to be close to 180 thousand tonnes and her crew currently number in about 50,000 souls, including sharks, people, and other people.
But where is the Golden Sea? Limping in the ocean. A few of her diesel boilers violently blew up, even damaging the rear funnel. The diesel was contaminated with about a liter of GPMF fuel, and the mana reacted violently inside the boilers.
[General Purpose Magical/Mana Fuel] [Magical fuel for Crown magic tech]

On another point, she's limping at 19 knots. It's a good thing only 11 boilers out of her many banks of boilers blew, so only a minor amount of speed was lost. On the outside, all is fine. Platoons of sharj sailors sweeping the massive deck space in the bow and the aft, in front of the guns. Her guns are covered in red cloth, to protect from the rainy season's heavy storms. Her superstructure above the hull has many small holes, small windows. Above, a lot of clothing on racks, where additional decorational flaglines would be.

Up in the bridge, the current captain is plotting courses...
"We have enough range to get to Mozdok. We could stop by Korolja or a nearby port city for repairs."
"We can't do that" sighs one of the officers. "We should be able to build new boilers with some of our spare parts."
"What i'm worried about, is the floor the boilers put a hole in. It put a hole in the floor. We need to fix that."

"We don't have space, yes. Can't we contract a Fey wizard to fix it?"
"I'd rather not." the captain sighs again, taking his cob pipe. "Besides, most Fey don't have this high of military clearance or the magical skills and restraint. There's a reason they have their own navy."
"There should be some way no?"

"I wish there was honestly."
The captain lights her pipe, and lets out a puff or two. Some cadets open the bridge windows in responce.
"But at this rate a few more boilers might blow on us too. We're unsure how close another mana blob might come to blowing us off course vertically."

Speak of the devil, and now another explosion is heard. The ship rumbles, metallic groaning from below.
"Ah? Oh fuck. Officer, the fuck happened?"
A cadet runs in from the observation deck
"The second funnel blew another cloud of black! There's a fire in the boiler room!"
"The fuck? How?"
"Block 4 fuel reserve exploded! Another boiler in Group 4 exploded!"
"Run to the communications officer and tell her to shut fuel to Block 4! Go go go!"
The cadet and officer run. A few others in the bridge run out, as fire alarms blare out

"This could not possibly get worse..."
The captain ponders, puffing a bit.
"Hmm... oh fuck, we're going to parade soon. Best to go tell the Lord-Admiral about this."

Down the captain went, down some stairs, to the captain's quarters. She boots up her PC, and begins writing her email.
"Hmm. How should i tell the new boilers at Block 4 exploded..."

hepl me
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Arcy

[ Civil War!]

[ 11th of Umbra 1614 ] [ a kingdom near Korolya ]
this shit like france fr

The nobles in the provinces near Korolya decided they wanted intependence. They formed a coalition of houses to oppose Kohl now that she was gone. A perfect time to start, or so they thought.

The people riot and harder, and unfortunately for the nobles, the Winter Palace listened to them. Now the Winter Palace says, "An example shall be made of you", and began sending orders down the Crown Army structure. The royalists, still empowered by their heritage and luck, pressed forth, and began pushing into Mozdok's outskirts, riding on their mercenary tanks and covered by their inadequate air power. it did not take long for the people to somehow start interfering, by slashing tyres, soling fuel, general partisan sabotage.

Now , the two divisions of the Kroen-Speer shock mechanized warfare units, the Kroen-Speer Division No. 5 and the Konigsjager Prototype Mobile Suit Division 12 are en-route, having finished repairs and regrouping in Mozdok.
"It's so nice, that they decided to come to us first..." the local general who dragged them in said, before the Crown gave the operation a green light.

Czerwone Jagody had finished inspecting, and now the Polish get to bash the shit out of selfish kings. Jagody has begun moving closer to Mozdok. Though it does not have to move so much to hit the capital of the rebellious provinces, the sheer power and loss of morale easily makes up for it. Also, the Jagody now can fire missiles out of it's guns. Lord-Admiral Prince of Magadan gave them the permission to use 'tactical' miniature nuclear missiles, with a diameter of 20 inches. It fits, and it works somehow. So it shall be.

As the royalist forces fighting under King Branrot of the Sigmohio coalition, the Jagody lets out it's warhorn, and in the audible distance you can hear some dude on a megaphone saying something. But it's in Polish, and none of the locals knew. It had to be something positive right? Anyways, the mechs started tossing royalist tanks at the royalists. It's dumb but it worked as the tank crews had poor reaction times and had their tanks full of HE rounds.

start of shinenigans

Arcy

[ Civil War!]
[ 28th of Umbra 1614 ] [ a kingdom near Korolya ]

bla bla bla, blah blah blah. Everyone wants to know how it's going.
Absolute hell, it almost looks like a different nation inside the warring states. To the relief of all sane people, the newly formed Sigmohio coalition was blown to pieces by the Czerwone Jagody's new miniature nuclear missile shells. Of course, they only had explosives and no uranium, but it worked, letting the Jagody hit targets almost 200 km inland from Mozdok.

The royalist ground forces got routed and completely died out. Everyone is dead, technically, as most just fled to the Crown's side, going MIA. The rest were either diehard loyalists or was unlucky enough to be point-blanked by a FAB-500 M-54 fired from the Jagody, again. The royalists air support, those mercenaries took the cash and flew off to Magadan to celebrate free money. Pretty swag.

The Konigsjager Prototype Mobile Suit Division 12 managed to flank and force a lot of royalists to surrender. their MS-06 Zaku II's running along the valleys with anti-ground missiles strapped to their shoulders and a big automatic 120mm gun. Very scary, especially when they now run up to King Branrot's castle. Bbut then, it gets smacked by the volley from Jagody. Castle parts flew everywhere, servants die, and they all see Branrot fly out in... wait that's not a zaku...

"This is no zaku, boy!" King Branrot scram over the radio, "It's a Gouf!"
"It's a what?!" one of the squad leaders responded in shock, "It's just a blue Zaku!"
"I'll show you all! The might of King Brainr-"

The division commander fired all his missiles while the Gouf was monologuing and ended the problem right there and there. Much shock as they watched 36 missiles explode the Gouf.

pro tip : don't do speeches while surrounded, throw hands immediately