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The Great Cargo Airship
The Great Cargo Airshp was Det Norske Luftfartselskap’s (DNL) pride and joy of a project. It had received all domestic approvals for flight, passed several performance tests, and was given the nomenclature, great bear, and DNL’s numerical system of 545, the same number as the seats it held.

Rykensvik’s landlocked status limited its military reach and forced it to rely almost exclusively on the range of modern aircraft to exert influence. This reality forced Rykensvik to acquire foreign property as a jump pad into unreachable areas. However, it also meant Rykensvik would remain a local or regional power with little ability to affect global situations unless it could acquire plots in every continent, an impossibility in modern times.

To counter Rykensvik’s limited operational capacity, the military took a look at DNL’s newest cargo airship. The idea of an airborne aircraft carrier was nothing new and had some proof of concepts in the past although never truly realized. With the double-decker build of the DNL 545, the interior of the plane could be hollowed entirely out and refitted to store and deploy up to 8 microfighters, another theoretical concept.

Flying Crosses was given the requirements for a microfighter design to fit within the DNL 545. And Det Norske Luftfartselskap would be given a contract for constructing a “mothership” variant of the 545.

Launch of the Vikan Missile Defense Grid, the Hammer of Dawn
The missile defense system that the Vikan military and private industries had worked together on was finally complete with the last piece being the missile detection software itself, finally finished. The SAM batteries, trucks, and CIWS had been actively under construction while the software was still being worked on.

15 Missile Detection towers were erected in strategic locations, each covering a 20-50 mile radius. All 15 towers were located in the country's northwest corner, along the mountain range.

Gartentor's Crimes
While unsure of the legitimacy behind Gartentor’s claim, the chemical attacks on a civilian population could not be overlooked. Rykensvik was also facing mounting pressures from the growing size of the Phoenix Blossom to stand aside in the conflict and, as such, formally announced its neutrality to the conflict as a whole. Instead, Rykensvik has offered to take the Gartentor officials responsible for the crimes committed and have a safe and fair trial by jury within Rykensvik. Releasing the War Criminals to Rykensvik would see the Gartentor Confederation with a clean slate of behavior on the path to redemption.

Prolekult
ViFIC could only immediately promise civilian relief aid in the form of MREs and medical supplies, as ensuring civilian lives endure is not something a country can openly deny.

However, the openly borderline communist majority remained a concern in the eyes of the agents. Supporting a global communist movement was not something Rykensvik wanted, especially when doing so would betray an existing trade partner and not even guarantee similar friendliness in the long term.

ViFIC took an interest in Van-Melikov, who seemed interested in at least finding a middle ground and, in private, showed a willingness to provide much greater support if they could subdue the more radicalized elements and make the rebellion less communistic and more meritocratic with the necessary social safety nets to ensure prosperity. (Regulated Capitalism with Socialist policies to maintain quality of life).

OOCRP:
The following RP Posts are carried over from the Temporary RMB Thread in the Discord.

RP: Joint Declaration of 2014; August 2014
The Empire has become tired of the shenanigans of Kulkkistan. To this end, the Empire has made the Joint Declaration of 2014, Law 2014-08-05A, henceforth called the Kulkkistan Law. This law does the following:
- No money shall flow between the Empire and Kulkkistan;
- No trade shall flow between the Empire and Kulkkistan;
- No Kulkkistan citizen, business, or entity shall own property in the Empire;
- Any money, assets, property, or ownership by any Kulkkistan business or person, left in the Empire as of this prohibition, shall be seized and resold;
- All Kulkkistani immigrants or visitors in the Empire shall be deported;
- If any conflict between Kulkkistan and Baltocarpathia arises, the Empire shall provide the Baltocarpathian government with a blank check for any money, resources, weapons, ammunition, or personnel they need to defeat the Kulkkistan government; and,
- The Empire shall cease any and all diplomacy with Kulkkistan until such a time that its extremist rhetoric or its government comes to an end.

RP: Latus Ferriva
The Third Empire of Averius finally began long-delayed construction of the newly named Latus Ferriva, or 'Wide Railway'. This is a three-meter gauge railway which shall go between the five major cities of the Empire. The train will be a luxury train with a 1st-class, 2nd-class, and 3rd-class section, along with cars for mail. Including the locomotive and engine cars and the 18 carriages behind it, there will be 20 cars on each train on this railway. The trains are designed to offer luxury travel, not to reach the destination as fast as possible. The railway tracks begin construction this year and will complete construction by 820. Various routes may be able to open before 818. Once built, the latus Ferriva will be sold as a private company with the government selling various shares of ownership to private individuals.

RP: COMSAT Station International
The Empire seeks to establish COMSAT stations in various nations around the world to set up high-speed internet connecting directly to the Third Empire of Averius. These satellites will enable an additional route for internet traffic in addition to existing undersea cables.

RP: COMSAT Station Expansion
The Empire responds to the queries by the Federal Kingdom of Proto Dacia. Its participation in the program is welcome. In addition, the investments are appreciated.

RP: A Haunting Signal
Amateur radio enthusiasts have noted a haunting message being broadcasted on the radio frequency 1,350 kHz. This frequency is one of the many number nations across the Empire. The Number Station was reported as slowly broadcasting the message "Zeta Alpha Zeta Alpha, NULL, NULL, NULL," sixteen times, before then following the message with twenty-five minutes of hauntingly distorted classical music. The thirty minute segments were continuing to repeat over and over. The government has given a response claiming that the computer hardware of the Number Station, which was automated, finally gave out. The haunting music being audio files on worn out magnetic tape and the five minute audio files with the codes being a message that is set to broadcast in emergencies, accidentally being triggered by the worn out and decaying equipment of the automated number station. The Empire has stated that the equipment is due for replacement and the system failure just brought it to the top of the list of systems needing replacement.

RP: Imperial Motor Company Reveals New Car
The Imperial Motor Company has announced that it began developing cars that run on electricity instead of petroleum. The first cars are not set to come onto the commercial market until the year 820 of the Imperial Calendar, that is the year 2020 for those outside of the Empire. The concept being designed aims for a 600 km range. While this car will be made mostly for export purposes, its domestic use will allow the Empire to reduce its use of fossil fuels, freeing more of it for export.

RP: Imperial Airlines Corporation Begins Construction of Two Supersonic Aircraft
The Imperial Airlines Corporation has begun development on two aircraft capable of supersonic flight. One design is for civilian use and the other is to fulfill the role of a bomber aircraft. The designs are being based around existing supersonic technology, but these new aircraft will need to be designed to enable supersonic flight with their roles in mind. The earliest date for a first flight is estimated to be in the year 820 IE.

RP: Imperial Shipyards Begin Submarine Development
One aspect missing from the navy for some time has been the use of submarines, which fell out of use when the Empire decided to focus on surface ships. To this end, the Empire has ordered the construction of 20 submarines. The guidelines for development are a capability to dive to at least 200 meters in depth, a capacity for at least 2 dozen cruise missiles, and a death capability to be competitive on the global scale. A deadline of 2025 was set for the development stage with 2035 being the deadline for the completion of the assigned production.

—[ Mansk, Capital of the Solingarchi Revolutionary Government ]—

    RP: Questions of Blood and Loyalty

    About one week prior to the NSPC’s declaration of sovereignty.

    General Urtu Mirdatt’s retreat from Mansk had happened at the last possible moment, and with only scattered fragments of the 5,500 strong force he’d been sent south with. The decorated commander, a proud man by all accounts, was initially confident in his ability to suppress the insurrection, but began to worry when the vast majority of the First Lands’ Army flooded into the streets rifles in hand alongside the riotous civilian populace. He spent most of his time pacing back and forth in his office, gesticulating wildly toward nervous staff officers and repeating orders to units which had long since abandoned their former loyalties. Mirdatt lent his Marines and Paladins to the aid of the Manskan police, which, due to the mass character of the uprising, spread them too thin across every corner of the city; their positions became isolated from one another. Within days the general found most of the city lost and his base of operations under siege. When a revolutionary lieutenant wearing a green armband stepped through their encirclement and announced through a megaphone that, “the Fralessa Palace has been captured, the Aydarovich family and their bourgeoisie functionaries with it,” Mirdatt broke, screaming a hysterical order for the air force to bomb the city, “into rubble, if necessary.”

    When a lower officer refused to relay the order, the general, still reeling, did not object but instead asked what the insubordinate captain would suggest to retake the city. Struck by the gravity of their situation, the man was seized by the kind of uncontrollable, senseless laughter which affects witnesses of car pileups and terrible fires. General Mirdatt realized the only remaining option was to flee the city.

    Under cover of darkness, at the same time soldier-worker militia units under orders from the hours-old Mansk Executive Committee mobilized to smother the final holdouts of counterrevolutionary opposition, Mirdatt and his subordinates– piling into what few armored vehicles they had to provide armor for their mostly on-foot retreat– smashed through the enemy’s perimeter and fought their way to the eastbound Center Corridor route out of the city. Chased by the cracks of rifles and the drumming of machine guns, every block cost them. Their path was marked by the blood of loyalists and revolutionaries meeting in pools on the streets. Securing the area around a highway exit, the general commanded those who had to be left behind to fight to the last man, that upon his return he would “avenge [them] all tenfold.” Mirdatt’s column, carrying just 70 Paladins and 23 lordly members of government, then escaped down the highway into the night.

    Along the path into the mountains eastward, the soldier seated beside Mirdatt repeatedly attempted to contact nearby garrisons over the radio while he stared forward at nothing. He had failed a direct order from the sovereign, allowing the fall of a city he had been specifically chosen to guard, disgracing the throne in the very heart of the empire. He could not accept this. Refusing to return to high command, General Urtu Mirdatt resolved not to regroup with the Second and Third Lands’ Army in Arthemery; he would rally loyal troops in the cities along Aydarovich’s eastern border and retake Mansk on his own in mere days, while the insurrection was still weak and disorganized.

    • • •

    Upon the formation of the NSPC, one of the first issues raised was the problem of building an effective fighting force capable of both defensively rebuking the forces the Empress had sent marching into the South and offensively moving to topple the remainder of the Federation. This new military, imagined as a politically conscious organization which stood for revolutionary ideology just as much as the state structures of the republic-to-be-built, would incorporate the existing professional army as well as the armed proletariat. It would need to effectively answer the grievances of the rank and file members of the old imperial army, to strongly secure their loyalty, while repairing the gaps in the chain of command created by the mass distrust and expulsion of the “largely reactionary” officer corps. Administering proper training and discipline was considered an especially urgent problem; throughout the uprisings in Mansk and Darjatt, few could forget scenes of workers militias test firing rifles for the first time while disjointed Army units broke into liquor stores to get hopelessly drunk. Toward these ends, the First National Revolutionary Congress unanimously passed the formation of the Military Committee, which would forge a revolutionary army known as the Republican Guard. The delegate Kullervo Van-Rákosi was chosen as its commander-in-chief on account of his veteran status and staunch Vanguardist beliefs.

    The new Military Committee wouldn’t have to worry about nearby garrisons stationed in the grand duchy of Aydarovich being called up to pacify the city. A number of units, mostly those in training stationed up to some thirty miles from the city, revolted in succession after receiving orders to pack their field gear and entrain for Mansk. They arrested or killed their loyalist officers, and, fearing quick reprisal and sabotage from the remaining military structure, marched the entire distance to the city in the dead of night. Picking up other military units along the way, by dawn a series of miles-long processions totaling 30,000 troops reached the suburbs of the city’s outskirts, where they were greeted ecstatically. With tanks and artillery pieces in tow, their march under the early morning mist was an inspiring spectacle for the Manskan population, sparking a wave of street celebrations and sign-ups for the Republican Guard. A colonel who was generally accepted as their impromptu commander, Irina Lan-Vitya, formally reported their arrival to an astounded Mansk Executive Committee, and was from there directed to the Military Committee where she was granted a chair.

    The surge of manpower coincided with a directive for all Army units to, at the company level, report before Kullervo Van-Rákosi in the wide Arala Square. Some appeared with officers they still trusted, others had elected their own from amongst themselves, and more had none at all. Once assembled, Van-Rákosi delivered a speech addressing a resolution which had just been passed:

    “The Supreme Command of the Military Committee, acting through the National Solingarchi People’s Committee, is organizing a new army, a Republican Guard, and appointing the leaders of units. Officers will return to command. Working men and women will be trained and join your ranks. In waging our struggle against the old authority, we must not risk doing away with firm organization and iron discipline, the forces which harness our wills into weapons with which we destroy our enemies. The military expertise and specialization of the imperial officer corps is invaluable in persecuting people’s war.

    “Do away with your fears— in the army, as in all things, the whole of power will remain entirely in the hands of the councils, who at all levels command will be accountable to. This is no return to the old tyrannies and abuses of the lord-commanders; already it is law that you cannot be deprived of those rights that all citizens enjoy, that you are entitled to respect and fair treatment on and off duty, that the officer titles of “Lord,” “Excellency,” and “Highness” are abolished, and that all arms and munitions are under control of the company and battalion councils, never to be turned over under any circumstance. Only those orders which do not conflict with the directives of the Military Committee shall be obeyed, and in cases of counterrevolutionary sabotage the company committees are empowered to persecute betrayal. These are the terms under which we welcome their return and ask for your utmost obedience in military matters.

    “Soldiers, you have all become revolutionary cadres, stalwart defenders of the people’s will. Join with your worker comrades as the future republic’s first line of defense!”

    A roar of approval rang out across the square, many soldiers besides themselves with joy and fervor.

RP: Southern Supply Run

The Egill Coven currently living in Neuerstaat has sent messages back home to the Vestrbjǫrg Enclave to their mothers cousins of the Bera Coven. There has been an asked for some hard to come by supplies from back home. These will be in the form of bottled nutrition cider, medical supplies, weapons, ammunition, building material, and electronics. The Bera Coven will be sending their merchant airships within the coming weeks to help with some of these needs and bring back some new items from the colony at Tuliare in Coraith.

RP: Gullblatt's Cable Cocoon

With world interest the Nesters Group Company is expanding their manufacturing of SECOF *Shielded Ether Crystal Optic Fiber Cables. Their first largest buyer would be their own host nation of Greater Confederation of Switzerland. They would be given a special rate for these given how many metric tonnes they're requesting per month. While the Vestrbjǫrg Enclave also has a limited ability to manufacture these cables as well Gullblatt holds the largest share in producing them so far. Nester is also ready to show off a new central processor dubbed the EQHP within the next few months along with a better type of screen being called the LEFAB display standing for Liquid-Ether Full-Array Backlighting. The Liquid-Ether is able to charge between solid and liquid properties allowing for detailed interconnected shapes. While the Backlighting is able to show local dimming for truer colors with complete brightness control.

RP: The Battle of Wheeler
Unorganized Territories - William Childress and his men gathered along the ridge. Stretching out before them was the Wheeler Basin, a vast expanse of flat open land — a dry lakebed — created by the Wheeler River. In the distance, six miles out or so, the men could see a small Pahaw settlement on a portion of raised land in the lakebed. The men were on a mission from Rodanthe; they had been ordered to retaliate against the Pahaw to avenge the massacre at Lefors, a brutal and devastating attack on Neusean settlers in the western Unorganized Territories. It was in fact these same men, stationed at Fort McLean, that had received the band of refugees from the Haw attack. And it was again these men who had rode into Lefors, what remained of it, to search for survivors and recover the dead. Childress’ men had bore witness first hand to the savage nature of the Pahaw, and now they had a chance to retaliate.

As darkness blanketed the basin the men mounted their horses and set off. Illuminated by the flames of torches they descended into the basin, kicking up a cloud of dust as they rode. In the village the people awoke to the rumble of hooves, seeing the light of the cavalry fast approaching. Within moments the attackers were upon the village, they set their torches to the grass roofs and the surrounding scrub brush. With both saber and shot the cavalry cut down the inhabitants amidst the chaos. The attack lasted less than half an hour before the cavalry withdrew. The cavalry left as suddenly as they had arrived, leaving in their wake an inferno and hundreds dead. They had taken revenge at minimal cost, sixteen injured and two dead.

By the week’s end they had returned to the station at McLean and relayed the battle to Rodanthe. Soon paper’s across Neuse reported the victories of the cavalry, the Lenoxville Examiner ran a headline “Vengeance for Lefors: Cavalry Defeats Haw in Decisive Raid.”

RP: Sinking of the Merchantman Royal
Lenoxville, Province of Hyde - When the Royal failed to arrive in Lenoxville the owners of the Davis & Eli Maritime Line assumed the ship had run behind schedule due to a gale near the Bogue Banks; however, when the ship failed to arrive in harbor in the next five days, and other ships reported no sign of the vessel along the busy eastern corridor, the owners of the merchantman assumed the worst. The Royal, a merchant schooner owned by Davis & Eli and insured by Wachovia-Kauser, set off from the agricultural port of Swansboro carrying a crew of 22 and a cargo of cotton, flax, and wool destined for the manufactories of Lenoxville. The ship was set to follow the “eastern corridor,” a busy coastal seaway used to ferry the raw goods of the nation’s south to the industrializing northeast. The voyage was typically rather short, but the route contained some of the most dangerous waters along the coast -- including the Pamlico Breakers, a massive shoal, which posed significant risk to weighted merchant vessels. It came then as little surprise then when partial wreckage was seen east of John’s Point near the Sable Bar, a moving sandbar within the Pamlico Breakers. Investigation by Wachovia-Kauser and the John’s Point harbor authorities confirmed the wreckage to be that of the Royal, and an ensuing search of nearby waters for survivors found none. The cause of the wreck was speculated to be due to poor weather reported in the days leading to the reported disappearance, which likely resulted in the ship grounding and breaking apart on the Sable Bar. While the loss of merchant vessels along the eastern corridor is not uncommon given the hazards, the complete loss of the crew captured the attention of the press, bringing the matter to the forefront. Public concern has since prompted legislators and local authorities to consider methods to safen the sea channels, including a proposal for the creation of the National Light Service to manage existing and construct new navigational aids such as Lighthouses – proponents of the Light Service have indicated concern at the near complete lack of navigational beacons, a total of six currently existing. Additionally some of suggested the creation of a meteorological service to issue weather reports and warnings which would benefit not only the maritime sector but other industries as well.

<RePost>

The time has come

March 16th, 2014, near the Etrian waters

The sun was slowly rising, engulfing the endless horizon in shades of maroon, orange and burgundy. The Patima Sea turned the colour of diluted blood, a reflection of the unsettling sunrise. As of 6:00, all military personnel of the Northern Fleet were on high alert, preparing the first attack. Even though the initial disguise of an unusually large and well-armed trade convoy allowed to escape the strikes from the Mavony Isles, it could only take the Fleet this far. They had to act quickly.

Finally, the attack ensued at 6:30. The joint airstrike from the "Rosespikes", MIdribbonia's new carrier, and the Liss Airbase was supported by launch of numerous UAVs - the jets were practicing tactical pairing with reconnaissance drones, which was meant to ensure the safety of pilots and wider control zone of the aircraft. A number of kamikaze drones were also launched, targeting the enemy's airbases on mainland and on the Mavony Isles themselves. The massive aerial presence was paired with naval maneuvers, i.e. the main attack force of the Northern Fleet utilising their middle-range missiles against the harbours and coastal infrastructure in general.

After the first wave, one of the smaller auxiliary vessels of the Fleet took off to the northern part of the Patima Sea, seemingly targeting the bridge connecting the Isles to the Savranti mainland. What will happen to this weaponless ship and how will the enemy respond?

Northern Fleet
1 Aircraft Carrier "Rosespikes" (Juan Carlos I generic)
3 Amphibious Assault Vehicles
3 Frigates
10 corvettes
6 auxiliary vehicles (1 floating hospital, 3 fuel tankers, 2 cargo vehicles)

Total Aircraft involved
30 heavy reconnaissance UAVs (Okhotnik generic)
25 kamikaze UAVs (Shahed generic)
20 fighter jets (Mirage 2000 generic)

Total Personnel involved
3000 Naval personnel
6000 Assault force
1000 Airforce personnel

RP: THE 2018 ECLIPSE GAMES (APPLICATION)

GCS Application to the 2017 Midribbonian Eclipse Games

10km Cross-Country Skirolling
Name of Athlete: Martina Schild
Species of Athlete: Human
Background of Athlete: They did high endurance training within the northern and southern Swiss mountain ranges. And they have completed various drills and practices in the rugged landscapes of the Alps. They are one of the national champions in winter sports.

Markspersonship
Name of Athlete: Lelia Mggurel Henza
Species of Athlete: Jaru Mothian (Swiss Sprite Human Hybrid)
Background of Athlete: Trained and retired from the Swiss Special Forces and the TASK FORCE SECURITY NINE. They are an excellent sharpshooter and are one of their renowned national champions.

5km Horse Mass Start
Name of Athlete: Martha Brischrigg
Species of Athlete: Human
Name of Mount: CALÆCO (Kal-AAIIII-ko)
Species of Mount: Thoroughbred
Background of Athlete: One of the best horse races within the Swiss Confederacy, considered to be one of the top five best racers.

Equestrian Vaulting
Name of Athlete: Liridona Michlig
Species of Athlete: Human
Name of Mount: Helvetia
Species of Mount: Swiss Warmblood
Background of Athlete: Expert in horse show jumping and other equestrian events. An expert horse rider. Using her experience in the previous 2009 games, she signed up again for the 2013 games with her silver medal under her belt.

1km Swimming Relay Race
Names of Athletes (4):
- Adam Schild
- Ferna Francois
- Aichfa Conradin
- Gheta Sefina
Species of Athletes: All humans
Background of Athletes: Experienced swimming veterans, which participated in 230 national championships. The team managed to earn their spots as champions seven times.

Dancing
Name of Athlete: Melinna Freirioa Hittemel
Species of Athlete: Sweizzer Faerie (Swiss Sprite Human Hybrid)
Background of Athlete: Expert ballet dancer and are one of the candidates to the most famous teams in Switzerland, most especially in Zurich.
Background of Dance: National ballet dance with traditional classics

Figure Skating
Name of Athlete: Klienfre Keimel Santra Goering
Species of Athlete: Swiss Muspel Sprite
Background of Athlete: One of the top ten greatest skating figures, where she excels a lot in spins. Her most elegant move was using her wings to float while jumping or spin jumping, earning her the title, “The Angel of Ice”.
Background of Short Program: One of the masters of figure skating, having done more than just double or triple Axel, one triple jump, a jump combination (consisting of either a double jump and a triple jump, or two triple jumps), one flying spin, a layback/sideways leaning spin, a sit, acamel spin (without a change of foot), a spin combination with just one change of foot, and a step sequence using the entire ice surface in the Women Single Senior Skaters.

Fencing
Name of Athlete: Conrad Odermatt
Species of Athlete: Human
Background of Athlete: One of the great fencing champions in the GCS. They did extensive training and combat in the Swiss army. They are very proficient in almost all forms of combat. They earned a silver medal for the GCS, and were highly experienced in the Eclipse games as they had participated twice.

2km Bicycle Mass Start
Name of Athlete: Evelyne Leu
Species of Athlete: Human
Background of Athlete: Highly skilled in freestyle skiing. Trained in rigorous long distance skiing within the Alpine mountain ranges. She also does intense endurance training with bicycles on Swiss highlands, near the mountain ranges, as a way to help with her skiing. She participated in the Dzeia Eclipse games.

500m Speedskating Sprint
Name of Athlete: Heillienaa Jaruies Magna
Species of Athlete: Jaru Mothian (Swiss Sprite Human Hybrid)
Background of Athlete: One of the most renowned Swiss Jaru Mothian athlete with great reaction speed and endurance. She is known for being one of the greatest champions in winter-based sports, most especially speedskating.

RP Common Ground 2

Proto Dacia agrees to the request.

RP: What Cannot be Undone (2014/15)
Part of Stargate - Phase II FINALE
Date: ??/??/2014 - 2015

Quarantine Area: 2,586km2
The terraforming process has spread to other towns and settlements, and the cover-up, which had lasted a remarkably long time, was broken. The wider Technate would be aware of what was going on, including numerous videos and reports of people dying to the creatures from beyond. The armed force's presence in the region was quite substantial, with a consistent war being waged against the creatures that had become increasingly bold and more ferocious as their foothold in this place was solidified; this included new types of creatures, a whole field of study dedicated to cataloguing them and examining the botanical marvels was created most remarkable were some creatures that weren't outright hostile like some grazing animals that ate the ashen, crimson and aquamarine grass which was beautiful as it was twisted. The public did not take well to the experiment gone awry. Many suspected it was a weapons test if it had gotten this far, and some travelled to the edge of the site to protest or see it for themselves, as this seemed utterly impossible or a hoax.

Closing the Door
A device was developed which could theoretically be used as a directed amplification device for psi energy in the form of a radio beam, which they speculate could provide the energy boost needed for weaker Stargate operatives to close the gate; when closed, a cleanup would be far easier. The spread could be stopped through a decisive bombing campaign. The device was big, required immense energy, and looked to be straight from a science fiction film resembling some sort of 'dooms day ray,' but it was the opposite in this case as a saviour. The difficulty was transporting the blasted thing through the now huge quarantine zone right into the heart of the madness where the greatest threats are sure to reside and get it down underground into the facility, set up, and fire it with their Operative hooked up to the device.

Point Insertion
An entire two battalions of mechanized infantry were assembled. A special vehicle was designed to house and power the 'doomsday ray' N°5 was selected (The most powerful Psychokinetic since 1 & 2) to operate the machinery. They set off into the terraformed region it was raining and dark, requiring night vision goggles; the region had lots of glowing alien mushrooms, which gave a dim glow; their equipment had IR to detect any monstrosities, though the vehicles had FLIR. They would move across an old road that had since cracked to pieces and was overgrown with alien plant life, trying its best to assimilate the things humanity had constructed here. Occasionally, a radio would crackle calling targets, and mounted machine guns would fire a stream of HEI-T to tear the creatures to ribbons; they were of little consequence to a tank. A group of them could take down a sedan and rip everyone apart inside, but none here were large enough to afflict a tank, APC or IFV, which made up the battalion's massive convoy with the device at its core. Approaching the old research building, resistance became tough as larger creatures blocked the way and assaulted the vehicles, spurring a near-constant stream of gunfire. and even a group of colossal house-sized creatures emerged from the tunnels, the tank main guns rotating and unleashing an HE round to explode the creatures. The convoy would set up around the building, forming a tight perimeter with ample firing arcs and troopers with CBRN equipment would disembark and unload the package. N°5 would also disembark; he was on edge, highly attuned to the psychic energy; this place felt terrible, and the portal was calling to him.

Laboratory Circus
The package was put on an electrically assisted mobility device and kept in armour; the vehicle that housed it would have lower legs, and the generator would be prepared. A very long and thick wire would need to be laid down throughout the complex. The troopers had guns but felt far more vulnerable without the vehicles; even their modern-day armour could be jeopardized at the assortment of stingers, claws, teeth, and other implements the monsters may employ against them. The building, overgrown with vines, was breached by the teams who released volleys of shots to clear out creatures at the entrance, four-legged hairless things with black flesh and a mouthful of needle teeth, the frontal legs larger than the back finishing with a series of claws. The teams continued their advance hostile growths would attack them, vines, spores, predatory plants and monsters slinking around in the dark, leaping out to rip some of the soldiers apart as they advanced. Several squads went down before they reached the barely functional lift and took the device down into the depths of the tomb-like research facility.

The Gate
The gateway was a colossal rip in the wall overgrown with vines, an ominous thick haze, and orange light; the teams kept shooting at the monsters arriving and cycling through magazines, leaving a trail of bodies and dead bodies. The science team would set up the 'death ray' and place N°5 into a capsule which had sound suppression, and an EEG meant to be like a mobile sensory deprivation chamber resembling a coffin. Once inside and hooked up, the scientists would calibrate the device urged by the soldiers who were holding the line at mounting odds; they were reminded radio would be down once they began and the device was activated; it whirred and spun, supercapacitors charged, and it emitted glows from its ruby maser chambers, radios would crackle the device was to amplify and carry the psy energy from the Stargate operator who would focus in on closing the portal, the beam would amplify carrying the will and focusing it. The beam struck the gateway, and inside it, creatures across the facility would howl and wail and begin converging on the position; the soldiers would fling grenades, unload their rifles, and light machine guns until the creatures were tripping over their own dead. The portal would begin to budge and crackle, starting to close; the scientists amplified the power, and its radiators glowed bright orange. Attrition was mounting, but the portal was nearly closed, rousing some cheers as the device reached maximum intensity. Something emerged from the portal, totally alien and horrific but strangely human; the soldiers pointed their rifles at it and released rounds, which stopped in place, the bullets being held by powerful psionic force, power only seen by N°1, seven years ago. The creature was floating and whipped the bullets back, dropping numerous soldiers and floating over to the device, the scientist's necks snapping like a sick rhythm from an unseen force. The twisted creature opened the coffin and pulled out N°5, who looked in horror at the creature before his head exploded in a cloud of viscera. The creature didn't want its gate closed, but the device would prove useful. The soldiers attempted to intervene by shooting or attempting to stab the creature but had been tossed aside by ragdolls. The monsters flowed in with renewed focus and vigour, tackling and tearing apart the soldiers. The creature would levitate the device they had brought here, pulling how it works from the dead scientists' minds and using it to do the opposite of closing the gate.

Eye of the Storm
The dimensional alien outstretched a hand, calling out a colossal eight-legged monstrosity from the port. It would move the device back towards the surface and towards the tower, knocking down a wall, and the colossal creature would shake the earth and crash through floors and walls on its journey to the surface. The enormous creature burst to the surface to act as a distraction immediately; tank guns were trained on it and opened fire, and streams of bullets embedded themselves into the amorphous colossus; with its many legs, it would flip tanks and rampage about. Radio was still down, and an APC was sent from the site to go secure an airstrike as the tanks and soldiers retreated from the site, maintaining fire. The device was activated again, but the soldiers did not realize this during the heated firefight. This time, it was firing at the huge 1,000m radio tower. The entity was far more powerful than N°5 and had a huge amplifier and a transmitter nicely delivered to him and would interface with the device firing at the tower the volume of psi waves unlike anything every created on the planet; all the creatures stared up at the sky as the clouds swirled and objects and debris began to levitate, the heat sinks glowed, and the generator vehicle was blown out. The device went dark, but it was too late, and a far more sinister super portal was forming in the sky.

The Superportal
A trio of aircraft tore through the skies and released Small diameter bombs from their bays onto the huge creature, exploding it thoroughly until it collapsed to the ground; the jets were hit with portal turbulence and were smacked around or floated in place or at strange angles, one of them went down and crashed into a huge blaze as the others returned to the road flooring it to return to base, one of the tanks was crushed by the entity who then levitated up to the Superportal the orange glow illuminating the countryside and a huge storm brewing like a hurricane which swirled around the rift. Lightning crackled from the clouds of alien motes brushing against one another, and a tornado-like swirling portal energy reached down to the ground, throwing stuff around with psionic energy or phasing things in and out of the realm. Then, the radio would return online as the entity entered the Superportal.

Ground Zero
Creatures began falling from the portal, and an emergency meeting was called to contain the new threat; the risk of the rift in the basement of the old research facility had practically become a non-issue in the wake of this colossal and rapidly growing portal. The JCD authorized Ballistic Missile launches and maximum saturation of the area; they needed more time and to clean the region for intervention. 240-cell MLRS trucks would surge down the road with thermobaric weaponry and as many artillery guns they could get into place; from missile bases, keys would be turned, and red buttons pushed as hundreds of ballistic and cruise missiles would take flight to converge and explode across the quarantine zone, shells would rain and afterwards bombers would carpet bomb the hell out of the region some bombers ripped from the sky by the storm, the town that was once here and held the survivors was flattened including any other towns and houses which may still have people and the area were soon engulfed in an intense blaze and a smoke pire reaching up into the skies, thousands upon thousands of the creatures had been killed.

RP: Portal Storm (2015 Segment)
The Superportal formed a physical storm like a hurricane, but the actual portal storm was far more sinister; the Superportal would pulse, sending shockwaves which expanded outwards, the effect negating gravity through psychic interference, causing structural devastation and destruction of the environment and smaller short-lived rifts forming in which creatures and plant-life can escape from into this world to spread further than the quarantine zone and create new pockets across the country. The Superportal had a tornado-like appendage that tore up the landscape and tossed objects around through raging psychic energy.

A state of emergency was declared, and martial law across Otyken from the catastrophe, though currently, it was most prominent in the Kaethet region, CC, JCA, and JCD were mobilized fully along with SI forces and emergency response. The citizenry naturally was terrified and not fully compliant, resulting in an incalculable amount of police violence and riots across the state. Buildings were shaken and knocked down, bridges collapsed, and objects would float around briefly before plummeting into the ground in an apocalyptic outbreak. Suddenly, colossal amounts of resources, scientists, and military assets were diverted to taking out the rift and super portal. Missile launches and columns of military assets became commonplace, moving in to clear out spawnings of creatures and torch plant growths. To dispel some of the confusion, a government emergency announcement was made and transmitted to devices across the country:

EMERGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT

To all citizens of Otyken,

This is an urgent message from the Continental Board. We are facing an unprecedented event that has resulted in widespread disruption and fear among our population. The phenomena you are witnessing, including the Superportal and its associated effects, were unintentionally triggered by a classified experimental weapons test conducted by the Joint Continental Army.

We understand the gravity of the situation and the distress it has caused. We want to assure you that all possible measures are being taken to contain and resolve this crisis. Our top scientists and military experts are working around the clock to close the Superportal and eliminate the threats emerging from it.

We urge all citizens to remain calm and follow the instructions provided by emergency services and military personnel. Your safety is our utmost priority. Please stay indoors, secure your premises, and await further instructions.

We are fully committed to restoring order and will keep you updated on the situation. We ask for your cooperation and understanding during these challenging times.

Continental Technate Emergency Response Board

Disaster Site
Many theories emerged about the event, such as blaming Cxurun or tying it to the mysterious lights that had been reported to have been emitted from the deep ocean near the Naacal islands. Maintaining order had become nearly impossible as lootings and people fleeing congested roads and bridges collapsed from the portal storms; the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement conducted several mass shootings to quickly dispel the growing riots and civil unrest from the unfathomable events playing out here, disasters have happened in the past including earthquakes, tsunamis, monsoons and more but typically they were short-lived, weeks past and the city of Seiryoku was reduced to rubble with an estimated 122,912 people missing or killed a tragedy unlike anything the nation had seen since previous centuries and this human cost was expected to mount rapidly if the situation is not put under control.

No end in sight
The intensity of the storm was amplified and began knocking out communications and power across the region; the government has been preparing a new amplification device, and the catatonic Stargate operator N°2 underwent intense neural surgery and was installed with neuroprosthesis from the greatest technology available as the last best hope for closing this gateway. The device was enormous and needed to be moved by railway and required a nuclear SMR and coolant trucks to run, they also constructed a mobile sensory deprivation chamber for N°2, but as they worked to create this equipment, the storms raged on and the region was rapidly deteriorating, it was less felt further north and south, but the central states were in utter turmoil as services collapsed from the storm and casualties rapidly climbed. Looting, riots, and mass crime became commonplace, especially with the distribution of Energy Credits totally disrupted by a lack of communication channels or power and the slow diffusion of Jouel bank notes.

Dystopic Claims
N°2 was still in recovery, another city had fallen, and the news stopped reporting on the death count, though it's expected to have climbed to the millions as the rest of Seiryoku was wiped off the map; in the rural regions, they were not safe either as the wildlife was highly aggressive by design and attacks people and various predatorial plant growths, and otherworldly sicknesses became commonplace. Rations for the refugees generally included Gelatinated Calorie Paste (Rice Flavor) and Dessicated Sustenance Bar (Water Flavored). The size of the Super portal continued to grow, and gateways opened further from ground zero; the waves of portal energy increased in intensity some, but worse was the increase in range, indicating it would expand as long as it could and continue to terraform, destroy, and assimilate.

Against a Dimension
The armed forces have their work cut out for them at culling the alien wildlife amid supply chains and communications being highly disrupted; the portal storms have also adversely affected the weather, causing more rain, higher winds, and gloomy days with the sun frequently blocked by clouds. Subject N°2 had become coherent again and accepted the neural prosthesis, but was still too weak to deal a blow to the Superportal. The Technate has declared war on the encroaching dimension and the creature that commands them; the declaration was broadcast by radio, which they often interact with and seem to understand to some extent. Some helicopters got close to film the portal, which seemed to be raining creatures down to the ground from it and sucking matter up like a tornado.

Quarantine Area: ~150,000 km2

((2016 segment soon...))

RP: Cargo Airship
Due to sea-based trade relying on two bottlenecks that may be difficult to bypass if blockaded, the Empire needed a new idea for cargo transport. The Imperial Airlines Corporation has submitted a proposal. The Cargo Airship is a zeppelin that could theoretically carry a moderate amount of cargo and bypass naval blockades. The IAC has been given a contract to develop and build five of the proposed aircraft by 2035.

(((TEMP RMB CHANNEL REPOSTS)))

The Swiss Government and the rest of the Cantons adopted similar policies and stances of free movement and abolishment of passports, commonly referred to as the Schengen Areas. They were specifically tailored to all countries and official members of the Schengen Area, where rich and hardworking North Western Ardentian citizens reside. As a result, the burgeoning Swiss industries were met with a massive influx of manpower and expertise from citizens from Vorstheim (Redpeppers), The Candainian Gullblat Enclave, Baltocarpathia, and Skylarvania (to some extent), coming in to travel and work. However, strict policing measures were enacted to deter criminal organizations from exploiting the system.

Government investments in funding and housing were accommodated to their growing industries and populations to foster long-term sustainable growth. Cities, within the valleys and the lowlands of the Swiss Confederacy, invested in the development of residential and industrial facilities, enticing foreign workers to come to the country. Construction of complex industrial establishments and major residential housings began in the 2000s and 2010s, using its iron extraction and foreign imports and domestically manufactured Swiss steel. Economic analysts indicated the development plans and Schengen would thoroughly increase both nation's GDP and GDP per capita significantly over time, marking the implementation as an effective method to foster greater economic trade and prosperity in the lands.

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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}GREATER BUSINESS GROWTH WITHIN THE GCS, CELESTIAL UNION, AND SCHENGEN ZONE
}}}MORE WORKERS TO MAN SWISS INDUSTRIES
}}}MORE TOURISM WITHIN THE CONFEDERATION
}}}FOREIGN WORK AND TRAVEL BETWEEN THE SWISS CONFEDERACY AND THE SCHENGEN MEMBERS
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Hostilities divided the world once again in a perpetual state of Cold War. But this unfortunate situation never deterred the Swiss government from closer economic cooperation through their economic trade agreements with the Celestial Union. Greater trade of ore and other minerals increased with the Enclave, East Ardentian, and North Ardentian countries, which they now sought after they severed pre-existing supply chains from other countries, specifically Vesperia and South West Ardentia. Thus, more cooperation between stable and close neighbors was the best option, so far, but the government still favored diverse trades and supplies from other continents. Tengerina was the next best option. The target for export and trade was Otyken, Honalulu, and the Distanic Confederacy, where industries and trade flourished.

Business growth between the Celestial and NW Ardentian states also grew, in size, with Swiss companies, such as their architectural firms, digital media studios, gaming studios, and other company branches, expanding and/or collaborating with their homegrown studios. Outsourcing program coding to programmers elsewhere in the Union greatly increased the production of games, apps, and many more, and it was expected to increase from there. New launches of Swiss games, apps, and programs grew with remarkable sales as the combined Swiss coding with other countries was of great quality. THANKS TO THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND PROWESS OF THE CANDAINIAN GULLBLAT ENCLAVE AND HER OTHER SISTER ENCLAVES, PROGRAMMING PROJECTS WERE OUTSOURCED AND DONE WITHIN THOSE NEUTRAL YET HYPER ADVANCED AND STABLE NATION-STATES.

Architectural firms for skyscrapers, family houses, and apartments established themselves within the populated and rich cities within the lowlands and valleys, working hand in hand with the CU government. Engineering firms, involved in creating structural components and earthquake-proof designs, also joined in the expansion, helping to build Earthquake-resistant buildings. Collaboration between Vorstheim (Redpeppers) and the Gullblat Enclave cemented Switzerland's architectural and structural engineering firms and their reputation as one of the greatest in the continent. Exporting their services to acquire contracts, design, and build for other national governments was expected to grow in the coming decades, but they worked diligently to innovate and improve, just like the rest of the competition.

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THE CELESTIAL UNION BUSINESS GROWTH
}}}SWISS ARCHITECTURAL FIRM BRANCHES IN THE CELESTIAL UNION
}}}SWISS DIGITAL MEDIA BRANCHES WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION
}}}SWISS GAMING STUDIO BRANCHES WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION
}}}SWISS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING FIRM BRANCHES WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION
}}}OTHER SWISS BRANCHES
}}}OTHER EUROPEAN GULLBLAT AND CELESTIAL UNION BRANCHES WITHIN THE SWISS CONFEDERACY
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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}BUSINESS GROWTH BETWEEN THE SWISS, THE CELESTIAL UNION, AND OTHER NORTH WEST ARDENTIAN NATIONS
}}}GREATER SWISS EXPORTS TO OTHER NATIONS
}}}GREATER BUSINESS AND EXPORT GROWTHS TO THE EAST ARDENTIAN REGIONS
}}}OTHER INNOVATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN PROGRAMMING, CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, AND MANY OTHERS

THE FOLLOWING CHANGES
⇒REDUCTION OF PRE-EXISTING TRADE WITH THE VESPERIAN NATIONS (EXCEPT NEUERSTAAT AND GORA)
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Nation mentions:
Candain
Kemonomica (Honalulu)
The Distanic Confederacy
Redpeppers (Vorstheim)
Baltocarpathia
Sovereign States of Skylarvania
Solingarch
Brennus
Midribbonia
Sodor and Seljaryssk
Nonadia
Neuerstaat
Fiercewood (Eldamar)
Empire of Gora

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Newly-produced chip manufacturing equipment from the Swiss made headway toward many research laboratories within the Celestial Union and the thirty Cantons. Bulks of protected steel containers, which were placed inside heavy-duty trucks, were readily transported to domestic research facilities. The others were shipped abroad within Swiss-produced and strengthened intermodal shipping containers, travelling across the vast international zones within western markets. Steel ships groaned as they rode the rough waves in the northern ocean, travelling across all common sea routes, but the conditions of its valuable cargo were unaffected. Ceaseless collaboration and trade within the semiconductor industries remained never-ending. Instead, more prominent traffic of goods intensified within the road passages and networks all across the east and west; vice versa in Swiss cities and the Northwestern Ardentian states within the Rhine River and the general scope of the region. Those trade networks, much like the same with other major shipping lanes, resumed their heavy traffic and the abundant delivery of consumer goods.

Supplies of copper were used in tonnes but made no considerable progression to the creation of smaller and smaller chips. Despite the copper components being carefully made, the physical limitations of the material being made into minuscule shapes were dreadfully overwhelming, as the properties could not be physically shaped into the smallest package possible. The coalition of JATABAA, NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS, AND ACIDA scientists raced back to the drawing board, reconfiguring their first draft of chips, what material they use, and many others. Others suggested more of the same materials in different arrangements, but the majority of the team proposed using rare metals. Teams of Swiss Humans, Swiss Standard sprites, Swiss Muspel sprites, Swiss Imbued sprites, Swiss Jaru Mothians, Swiss Sweizzer Faeries, Candainian Gullblat Standard sprites, Gullblat Muspel sprites, and Gullblat Imbued sprite engineers placed the idea of incorporating Ruthenium on the table. The decision to replace the core material with another made significant transformations in their designs. As mentioned in the reports given by the JATABAA scientists, the new ruthenium chips offered way better computational power with only a fraction of power, making it one of the most cutting-edge semiconductors to date. Blueprints and models were immediately digitized and archived by the NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS, protecting valuable databases with secured supercomputer systems and facilities. THE DIVISIONS also conducted sweeping measures to provide information to Swiss chip companies to create more advanced computer chip technologies. These plans and their future products, of course, were to be traded and delivered back to GXC GMC and other chip manufacturing sites within the Alpine Regions for mass production.

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THE SWISS SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS
}}}MEMORY CHIPS
}}}MICROPROCESSORS
}}}STANDARD CHIPS
}}}COMPLEX-SYSTEMS-ON-A- CHIP (SOCS)
}}}TRANSISTORS (NANOMETERS)
}}}RUTHENIUM CHIPS???

INCREASED SEMICONDUCTOR TRADE WITH THE CELESTIAL UNION
}}}SWISSSEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT
}}}MEMORY CHIPS
}}}MICROPROCESSORS, STANDARD CHIPS, AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS CHIPS (SOCS)

THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}TRANSISTOR CHIPS (ONE NANOMETER)
}}}CHIP TRADE BETWEEN THE SWISS AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
}}}SWISSCHIP DESIGNS
}}}SWISSCHIP MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT DESIGNS

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IMAGE URL: THE DESIGN IMAGES FROM THE JOINT CHIP PROJECT WITH CANDAIN (THEY ARE WITHIN THE JOINT CHIP PROJECTS SECTION BOX)

IMAGE URL: THE DESIGN IMAGES FROM THE JOINT SWISS AND CANDAINIAN RUTHENIUM CHIPS (THEY ARE WITHIN THE SWISS AND CANDAINIAN RUTHENIUM CHIP PROJECTS SECTION BOX)

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Several universities and companies, ranging from technology development, weapons development, infotech, banking, business, etc, began to see the light of adopting Biomimicry into their design formations. Programs within industrial sectors, design sectors, and universities were also established for enhanced research and record keeping so that research data could be archived and used for developing futuristic designs. Swiss Architectural firms greatly invested in Biomimicry studies within THE MOST PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITIES AND PROGRAMS. THESE SWISS UNIVERSITIES WERE THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF JARUUN, THE UNIVERSITY OF RUBEZHAL, THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF UNE (AN Amberleaf CANTON), THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN, THE UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHATEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LAUSANNE, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH, AND THE NEW SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH.

The subject of Biomimicry was even aired on television and social media for brief moments. By copying the form, shape, and function of a particular biomass, technologies, and businesses could theoretically see more efficient solutions and methods if such mimicry was integrated within the human societies of the Swiss Confederation. The MODERN Bullet Trains, for example, were byproducts of forms, which were influenced by the nature of certain animals. Specifically, the owl's wings, the beak of a bird, and many others were among those influences. Many other companies before have implemented the method of biomimicry for several years, experimenting with different tactics to achieve more efficiency.

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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
⇒GENERAL ADVANCED RESEARCH INTO HIGH-TECH
⇒GENERAL ADVANCED RESEARCH WITHIN THE FIELDS OF BIOLOGY
⇒THE OVERALL INTEGRATION, RESEARCH, AND DEVELOPMENT OF GREEN TECHNOLOGIES
⇒OVERALL GREEN TECH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GROWTH
⇒OVERALL TECH SECTOR GROWTH

BIOMIMICRY RESEARCH IN INDUSTRIES
⇒SERVICE SECTORS
⇒DESIGN SECTORS
⇒BUSINESS SECTORS
⇒INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING SECTORS
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BIOMIMICRY RESEARCH IN UNIVERSITIES
⇒THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF JARUUN
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF RUBEZHAL
⇒THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF UNE
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⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHATEL
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN
⇒THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH
⇒UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA
⇒THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LAUSANNE
⇒THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH
⇒THE NEW SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH
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The wave of Swiss investments came in the form of incentivizing, developing, constructing, and operating new steel mills and establishments to grow the country’s domestic supply and production of steel. Raw imports of iron ore from their domestic mines and other foreign imports (from Baltocarpathia and Vorstheim) arrived in overwhelming numbers, succumbing to the meager amount of mills able to transform those ores into quality metals. Over ten more establishments from small to larger facilities were planned and added to the ongoing construction efforts to boost the Confederation’s manufacturing capabilities. Refineries and complex integrated mills were built in unison within the Cantons of AARGAU, REINACH, BIENNE, AND LUCERNE. THE NEW AND CURRENT STEEL PLANTS WERE OWNED BY THE LEADING SWISS STEEL GIANTS, ALU MENIZKEN, FISCHER REINACH, NOTZ METAL, AND SWISS METAL.

Vast highways and river networks, connecting to the Rhine River, delivered their exports to domestic consumers and international markets through barges and stationed cargo ships. At the same time, the construction of more mills employed thousands more in the construction and trucking industries. 500K GROSS TONNAGE of pig iron were shipped in bulky intermodal containers, transferring the raw supplies from the Swiss River Ports to those FOUR Cantons with their pre-existing and new steel plants. The increase of 200K steel was annually estimated by the Steel companies, as a result of their new construction and production goals. THIS ADDS THE GROSS TONNAGE RANGE OF EXPORTS AROUND 330K-680K. The new steel products and their total estimated gross tonnage were valued at over USD 12 BILLION (125 BILLION CHF), which prompted the industries to develop and innovate better steel production technologies and techniques to increase their outputs. The steady production and exports of Swiss steel products were then exported to Ardentian countries and their vast markets within Baltocarpathia, The Candainian Gullblat Enclave, Vorstheim (Redpeppers), Naacal, the Sovereign States of Skylarvania, the Dze Tribes (Dzeia), The Distanic Confederacy, Brennus, Midribbonia, Otyken, and many others internationally. Monthly deliveries were reported to have been exported to those countries in 40K tonnages, per month.

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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}OVERALL DOMESTIC STEEL PRODUCTION GROWTH
}}}INDUSTRIAL STEEL PLANT GROWTHS
}}}GREATER OVERALL NOMINAL GDP GROWTH
}}}OVERALL EMPLOYMENT GROWTH
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The development of new types of warheads, for ballistic missiles, hypersonic cruise missiles, and bombs, reported about its completion by the Missile/Warhead Design Bureau. A new formation of authority would be decided to handle the design process of certain missiles, warhead specifications, and resource management. Such warheads created by the Design Bureau and Ministry will be placed within many projectiles ranging from artillery shells and air-dropped bombs to the installation of ballistic missiles. This includes ICBMs, MRBMs, and HSLVBMs in the list. Regular Short-range and Medium-range ballistic missiles, which are designed to be easily maintained and cheaper to produce, will be the backbone of the military force within the ministry. Tactical missile strikes will be launched to support a certain military campaign if such obligations demand its use.

IMAGE URL: IMAGES OF THE SWISS MISSILES AND WARHEADS (THEY ARE WITHIN THE SWISS MISSILE/WARHEAD DESIGN BUREAU SECTION BOX)

Intercontinental fire bombs uwu

In October 3rd 2015 Lillitia was able to make their first successful intercontinental napalm bomb. 11 million dollars were spent to make it. In 2016 the military budget was 800 million dollars and all of it was spent on making 72 international napalm bombs

RP: Eclipse Games Sign ups

The Enclaves have chosen the best sprites to play in this years games hosted by Midribbonia.

10km Cross-Country Skirolling
Name of Athlete: Nal Lottic
Species of Athlete: Muspel Sprite (F)
Background of Athlete: From Gullblatt

Markspersonship
Name of Athlete: Rontia Temum
Species of Athlete: Common Sprite (M)
Background of Athlete: From Sitruuna will use the Recoil Shifted Pulse Assault Rifle without the electronic scope.

5km Horse Mass Start
Name of Athlete: Trix Attur
Species of Athlete: Imbued Sprite (F)
Name of Mount: Oukranos
Species of Mount: Pembroke Corgi
Background of Athlete: From Glóavið

Equestrian Vaulting
Name of Athlete: Agrotis Kita
Species of Athlete: Imbued Sprite (M)
Name of Mount: Zo-Kalar
Species of Mount: Vallhund Corgi
Background of Athlete: From Glóavið

Dancing
Name of Athlete: Ysiri Grǿnn
Species of Athlete: Common Sprite (F)
Background of Athlete: From Owlet
Background of Dance: Ballet "Dance of the Nectar Bud"

Figure Skating
Name of Athlete: Vitta Grina
Species of Athlete: Cyber Sprite
Background of Athlete: From Vestrbjǫrg
Background of Short Program: Will performed six triple jumps, four toe loop jumps, and land a triple axel.

Fencing
Name of Athlete: Zeta Cress
Species of Athlete: Greater Sprite (F)
Background of Athlete: From Sitrunna

2km Bicycle Mass Start
Name of Athlete: Cera Gidae
Species of Athlete: Common Sprite (M)
Background of Athlete: From Owlet

500m Speedskating Sprint
Name of Athlete: Laria Bera
Species of Athlete: Common Sprite (M)
Background of Athlete: From Owlet

Post self-deleted by Neuerstaat.

rp civil war
A long brewing movement has recently seen it's popularity in Laurentiea soar.
Perpetuating a belief of it's neighboring nations housing deep seated hatred and distaste towards Laurentiea, a new nationalistic movement has seen it's support across Laurentiea bloom, in both rural and urban areas. Referred to as 'Greyshirts' or 'Grauhemden' by analysts, it is unknown what they call themselves.

Despite such anomity, it's ringleader does not seem to share such anomalous tendancies. A proud nationalistic former general of the Laurentiean Armed Forces, Karl von Kaligsburg (officially, Karl Marchtaler) has seen a mountain of support from across Laurentiea, concentrating in the southern regions, the man has brewed a nearly cult of personality around him, with his supporters brazened with grey coats attending his speeches across the nation en masse. It would be a understatement to say he has influence over Laurentiea.

Denouncing the current government of Laurentiea, the movement has a rather clouded political alignment, though certainly nationalistic, with KvK boasting statements such as "We will make Laurentiea great again!" in his speeches, it is unknown what Laurentiea would become if he was to ever come to rule. Certainly desiring political control, the man doesn't seem to align with any political party.

With over half the nation expressing support for him, this has certainly concerned the Laurentiean government without end, most concerningly, many military generals and higher ups, alongside personnel would also express a liking to his beliefs, the possibilities are horrifying. Though things seem calm, it may take only one match to light the fuse, a brewing powderkeg lies in Laurentiea, only waiting to be ignited suddenly and violently by some unforeseen event.

Such event would come very soon.
Starting in mid september of 2015, the nation would see a sudden and rapid uptick in deportations coming in from neighboring Nonadia. The narratives these deportees would tell of shook the nation and Laurentiean media to the core, speaking of horrid and unfounded accusations that led to their deportation, claiming they were innocent, regardless of the mountain of supposedly true evidence for their deportation in Nonadia.
It was clear from the beginning which side the Laurentiean populace and media would side with, what further exaggerated anger from inside Laurentiea was the growing Nonadian sentiment against Laurentiean emigrants,
The numbers of deportations from Nonadia would only further anger the Laurentiean populace.

The 'Greyshirts' would of course take advantage of this, with fiery speeches only furthering their support across Laurentiea, the nation would become a fiery mess, filled with protests in the name of these deportees certainly unfairly deported from Nonadia. The blame would fall on the Nonadian government, for "allowing such blatant acts of discrimination to be done against Laurentieans", only further stroking nationalist sentiment, convincing the populace that the Nonadian government, and even Vesperia as a whole and the VU sought to destroy Laurentiea for good and exterminate it's people.

The Laurentiean government would panic in fear, going along this path, only civil war or a coup awaits, though some still remained motionless, assured by the presence of newly established Neuerstaater units across Laurentiea, as well as the security of the SDC and VU, convinced that no such acts of violence would overwhelm the country.
There was little the Laurentiean government could do, one side paralyzed in fear and the other sitting silently, hoping to simply sit out the movement and it's popularity.
It took only one speech.
As Karl von Kaligsburg stood to give another speech in Kaligsburg, the Laurentiean military saw many of it's units weirdly stop responding and moving, concerns were relayed to the government but once again no action was done. This was seen by the navy and airforce too, with an entire naval base going offline and becoming unreachable near Kaligsburg.
As KvK stood on a large stage erected in merely a day ago by the venue, over 800,000 (numbers unknown, only a rough estimate) gathered to hear the speech, with KvK having previously hyped up such a speech repeatedly.
"Today, is the day we show the world our might. Today, is the day we will show Vesperia- No. We will show the world our strength. The government only stands in opposition to our greatness, a foreign puppet. Heed my words, today will go down in world history as the day our great empire truly begins. Take up arms, loyal people of Laurentiea! We must put an end to this embarrassment the government has made of Laurentiea! Glory to Laurentiea!"

Alarms would soon ring across Laurentiea, as supporters of the 'Greyshirts' rose up in accordance with their leader's calls. It was no misunderstanding, the speech was a call for rebellion. Aformentioned unresponsive units would soon one by one declare their unconditional support for the greyshirts, with many units in the navy and airforce quick to do the same. Many governmental operations would come to a screeching halt, especially in the south as police and local military forces attempted to fight against the tide of greyshirts, it had only been a few days, reports that many southern cities, mostly concentrated in around Kaligsburg, have fallen fully to the rebels.
With greyshirt troops marching upon both Kalogne, Kalmar and threatening Klagenfurt, the Laurentiean government would only have to appeal to foreign help, mostly VU and SDC help of course.
Only uncertainty lies beyond the horizon, as Laurentiea is swept away by a wave of violence.

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    ㅤ Commonwealth von Neuerstaat
    Nachrichten für das Aurora Netzwerk
    EMERGENCY SPECIAL

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    RP - A BURNING WILDFIRE
    Fire has engulfed Laurentiea.
    An intervention is but inevitable, for now, our concern lies with the troops that lie deep within enemy territory.
    Neuerstaat has set up troops across Laurentiea for a bit now, as the situation grew worse, the amount only grew, growing five fold as the nation increasingly became unstable and Karl von Kaligsburg gained only more supporters and influence over the nation.
    As the inevitable day came, military bases in Winterthur, Aarau and Apehwvijk would find themselves under attack from rebelling troops. Rapidly entrenching, the troops stationed there would begin rapidly calling for aid from nearby Laurentiean units, only to receive no response. They laid deep behind enemy front lines, (Apehwvijk is not included) the troops would only have to call for support from other NV garrisons in Laurentiea, as well as within Neuerstaat itself.
    Something must be done soon, else Neuerstaater troops be overwhelmed by the angry horde of Laurentieans. Overnight, the units across Laurentiea would enter the highest level of alertness as possible, as reinforcements would be rapidly called from Neuerstaat.
    Immediately, the AES would be called upon to investigate the threat, to obtain insider information to prevent further surprises, as well as to detect any other influence within the rebellion, perhaps even foreign.

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Laurentiea wrote:

RP: Under radar, over boundaries
Relevant Pings: Nonadia, Laurentiea

Sōkei Keisatsu (SI branch) would watch in cruel amusement as the nation bordering Nonadia rapidly became inflamed from their clandestine operations in Nonadia. They would not be disuaded by the situation and several more unmarked aircraft arrived at night time in Nonadian airports to increase their presence.

Without approval of the Nonadian governments or being asked to some of the SI would move near the border specifically highways and crossing areas to secure them with several forward observers to catch refugees or travellers, the SI directive was to drop boards with specialized hook nails on the road to stop a vehicle, throw boards behind as well and then kill whoever was in the vehicle and then steal the vehicles to sell them overseas at cheap particularly in places like Kulkkistan and dispose of the bodies in fire pits. Should things get dicey they also had roadside bombs or snipers with IRNV as this almost always happened at night time. Border crosses on foot or during the day would be hit by drive-bys or patrols and sometimes simply run over and the vehicles burned if they weren't sellable. During low staffing days the SI also had Kamikaze drones with payloads of Steel BBs to wipe out possible refugees or simple just maim them so they won't make it.

The previous mission of falsifying crimes, mass deportations, and murders would continue at a steady pace, but the arrival of more people allowed it to happen over much wider areas across the country. They continued to sow outrage amongst Nonadias residents to make court trials easier so the judges wouldn't be torn to shreds from the general populace. They were eager to begin a genocide, but still honoured their promise to keeps this as on the down low as feasibly possible, they did take some videos for documentation of the project. A healthy sum of funds was also granted to them by [Redacted] which they would use to stock up on gear and task Nonadian criminal groups to assist in their project.

RP: Space Program Update; April 2016

The Averius Space Program has provided an update for its current project. The last thirty satellites will be launched this year, though the details on these satellites are not publicly known. The Empire will soon begin development of another project for the space program, though exact details have yet to be determined. Some people have expressed concerns about the fact that of the known satellite launches, about 39% of them are for exclusive government or military applications.

RP: CAFA; April 2016

The Empire has commissioned the Committee for Armed Forces Advancement, also known as CAFA. This committee is assigned with the task or creating updated practices for warfare and to find solutions to the power gap between the Empire and other nations around the world. One proposal that has already been discussed was to standardize missiles for multi-use functions to cut down on costs.

2013

The die was cast

Having only earned one medal in the 2013 Aquitinia Eclipse Games, the committee was still happy, with many athletes managing to score very decent spots. Considering the nation's meager 7.5 million inhabitants, any medal was a point of pride; nevertheless, back to the planning room and training facilities it was to prepare for the 2017 Midribbonia Eclipse Games, with the following athletes being nominated by the Dzean Moonlight Committee:

10km Cross-Country Skiirolling
- Dzytł.
- Dze, 1.92m tall, 85kg.
- Gold champion of the Biathlon in 2009, she would be hoping to test out this new sport and see if she could master it just as well as she did the mountains of her homeland.

Markspersonship
- Weł̣ułʻpʻuł̣un.
- Dze, 1.97m tall, 98kg.
- tłʻeex̣mḳḳań Bow (imagine a Mongol Recurve bow, but a bit larger).
- Renowned archer and the representative in Javelin Throwing in 2013, he would be selected as the national champion for the contest of archery after Matsuura Nobuhiro announced his retirement in favour of coaching.

5km Horse Mass Start
- Qiheetsʻ.
- Dze, 1.93m tall, 95kg.
- Mount: Lequn.
- A returning figure from 2013, he has been preparing, both himself and his mount, for the competition, having seen his performance in the last games hampered by a lack of training in what a more "proper" horse race is, such weaknesses would be set to not occur during this competition.

Equestrian Vaulting
- Tṡuńat.
- Dze, 1.81m tall, 75kg.
- Mount: Lequn.
- Wishing to set the score after a lackluster performance in 2009, the returning champion seeks to have, at the very least, a position in the top five to bring honour to her people, rather than be the best of the worst as she had to be during the last games.

1km Swimming Relay Race
- Tlchu Gwakaw, Lhaxhts Gwakaw, Hwirang Zraw, Yhu Mung.
- Human, Human, Human, Human.
- Champions of the Tlaxam and Rzö peoples, natives to the coasts near the Shield Archipelago, they have been selected for their victory at the 2012 Tʻuç̇liq in the Relay Race, hoping that their innate ability in the water bring the Confederation glory and prestige.

Dancing
- Mazrung Nlöhai.
- Human, 1.81m tall, 78kg.
- Ngra trai (irl equivalent: Sanam dance).
- The Bronze Champion of the 2013 games would return to see if the gods blessed him with another victory, hoping to bring further honor to the Mok Lang people and his nation.

Figure Skating
- Matsuura Akari.
- Kistunemimi, 1.71m tall, 67kg.
- Another member of the Matsuura Clan, she was nominated due to her ability with the formation of complex floral patterns, something she used to oft do in the frozen shores of Lake Tṡitł during the winter.

2km Bycicle Mass Start
- Ryözrang Sgad.
- Human, 1.77m tall, 72kg.
- A skilled and professional cyclist, he has prepared his speed on flat tracks and his reflexes in the harsh mountains known as the "Teeth of Heaven", skills that he hopes to put to the test in a proper, international, championship.

500m Speedskating Sprint
- Pʻaadzam.
- Dze, 1.79m tall, 77kg.
- Belonging to a dzeii mountain clan, the athlete would be selected after his victory at the 2012 Tʻuç̇liq in the Skating category, earning him national renown.

The nation would notoriously send athletes to all but one sport, that being Fencing. The reasoning for this is that no athlete relating to martial arts with weapons deemed it to be an "honourable sport", as it forbids most of them from practicing with their weapons of choice, restricting them to what they think of as a "soft, weak-spirited" version of the arts they practice, thought that is pure cultural preference.

Last to return
With the end of the Civil War in Ryuvir during last year, the Confederation rejoices in the victory of their Xing allies, while their troops on the ground rejoice, for despite their very low losses in absolute terms, the war was slow and sluggish mess, but, at last, the ships would carry them, and the urns of the fallen, home. The nation had started the 10' with a sour taste in its mouth from all the wars, not necessarily because of war itself, but because of the entanglement it could create and the strain the nation had been put under before thanks to its allies' lack of cooperation, but it also created a rise in sympathies for the nations that they fought alongside with, most notably the Xing and the Il-Saakan, while contempt for much of the world was in the minds of High Command, and, to a degree, the general public.

The Dze would keep a force of 1,000 Peacekeepers in some areas to coordinate rebuilding and humanitarian efforts, as well as keeping the vital team of Military Advisors to keep training the badly wounded, but victorious, Xing Forces, fearing that, should they not help their ally, not only would their honour be broken, but other nations may potentially take advantage of the weakened state the Xing would find itself in; thus, extra effort was placed in revitalizing the Land of Flying Thunder, to ensure the security and prosperity of the North-East for posterity.

Witnesses, no more

With a remaining 1,000 Peacekeepers, plus about 100 military advisors, still in the lands of Torimia, these would attend the Tribunals of Khanhad, awaiting to see the fate of the insidious, the dishonoured and bereft of humanity, though they would dare not witness the Zulgaakh, as the Dze were firm believers in that no member of one species ought to harm another in such a manner, a simple bullet to the head would be simpler, even if just as heretical in their eyes. The Tsotʻaan would also offer his helping hand to Holuikhan Khatun once more, proposing to dispatch the Shadecloak Rangers to track for potential whereabouts of the infamous Chairwoman Bao, as well as to train whatever autochtonous special forces the Il-Saakan may be planning to create, in order to combine the Tori's natural swiftness and ferocity with the discipline and relentless nature of the rangers, creating the perfect stealth troops, to this end the Dze would be willing, in absolute secret of course, to lend their cloaking technology to such a potential special force that they use with the shadecloaks.

(As to burial, all fallen soldiers had been cremated and their urns were long since in the possession of their loved ones, but thanks for asking nontheless and including that detail ;D)

2014

Flow like a river
Having contained the worst of the 2011 Economic Collapse, and having recovered from such, the nation would gladly welcome the increased trade from the Greater Confederation of Switzerland, whose contacts in the Gullblatt Enclave would further help increase ties and cooperation between the Dze and Sprites as species. Not only this, but the joint investments, internally and abroad, done in conjunction with Midribbonia in the Algae Farming industry, which has joined the Agricultural Sector as one of its key pillars in terms of output and revenue for the nation, allowing to get funds to upkeep the massive investments that the nation has been doing in order to, hopefully, climb out of the recession in full swing by the start of the 20's.

(I'll do 2015-2016, and specify more on the last post, tomorrow, though it's mostly, if not entirely, internal stuff)

RP: Nonadian Tingz (Secret)

The recent crime spike in Nonadia, linked to Laurentieans, would see a backlash against Sodorhvtisi'i even as the country saw a rise in pistol murders and incarcerations as a result. And combined with the unknown aircraft caught by Sodorhvtisi'i radar station A-8, well. Concerns would be heightened at Tienjin headquarters, the centre of intelligence in Sodor, even as a debate arose about what to be done. There was no proper evidence, and it wouldn't be proper to officially enquire on what was likely a routine charter flight? Instead, a two-pronged process would be launched.

(Not Secret): Officially, Sodorhvtisi'i concerns would be lodged regarding the drastic uptick in issues with Laurentiean immigrants, the northern neighbour of Nonadia not exactly wanting any issues on her turf. Their own investigative team from the Ministry of Justice would be offered, in order to help the Nonadians deal with possible underlying problems, and subsequently hopefully get to the bottom of this crime spike among a specific group, assuming that this is a crime spike.

(Secret): Unofficially, seven Tienjin agents would cross the border, beginning their own investigation. Using legitimate Sodorhvtisi'i government documents, legally as VU citizens they were allowed to stay incognito, with hopefully watertight covers and a staggered set of entries (Different routes, diff times, diff days). They would be under orders to investigate, using their own methods to get close to police officials or members of Nonadian Security ministries, and discover the truth behind the Nonadian issues of crime. Additionally, Agent 0098, Human Sofia Raynaravila, cover identity Alexis Furrier, a (fake) Nonadian citizen, would be tasked with getting close to authorities at the airport the unidentified aircraft is expected to have landed at, a case followed more as a formality than anything else (Yes, an unmarked aircraft assumedly without radar reciever would be a concern). Her objective would be to find out more about the events, and subsequently investigate and ascertain whether it was a simple mistake or something more pressing.

Nonadia
Otyken
I checked this post with Non beforehand, and he okayed it

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(((THE SECOND BATCH OF TEMP-RMB CHANNEL REPOSTS (ONE MORE TO GO))))

To better the GCS’ overseas trade, the government announced its plans to invest in the newly burgeoning economy of Naacal and its industries, primarily their services, general manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, and fishing industries. The plan also involved their local services of agricultural processing businesses, namely, their export of precious pearls and coconuts. THE SWISS CONFEDERACY PLANNED FOR MASSIVE 56 BILLION USD (231 BILLION CHF) WORTH OF MONETARY AND CONSTRUCTIONAL INVESTMENTS —IN TOTAL AND TO BE DISTRIBUTED IN SMALL AMOUNTS FOR TWO DECADES—, undeniably boosting their overall GDP. With the increase of piracy, carried out by Kulkkistan, proposed ports were drafted and planned to be constructed inside the sovereignties of Naacal. Western routes drastically changed to avoid Kulkkistani missile attacks that have devastated shipping in South Western Ardentia.

Authentic vanilla syrups were also among the prized exports within the overseas region, where many Swiss cuisines, restaurants, grocery markets, and cafés import their large containers of the rare spice. With increased trade, the construction of deep-sea ports was heavily invested, to operate more ships coming in and out of the island.

Tourism industries were part of the Swiss Naacal investment strategies, as well, with plans to build tourism resorts in their most beautiful locations. The Swiss enlisted and invested the help of the Naacal Rangi Paradise Resorts, Vaka Architects & Builders, (with the collaboration of Swiss architectural firms) to construct new resorts. Over three resorts were planned to be built.

Last, but not least, Maritime logistical industries were another integral part of the Swiss Confederacy’s plans to secure their new sea lanes as a response to the Kulkkistani threat. Naacal favored those new trade routes, and with the help of the CARI organization (with Otyken and Honalulu), heavy investments poured into those sectors, building new harbors and deep water ports.

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⇒VAKA MOANA LOGISTICS (MARITIME LOGISTICS INDUSTRIES) (HARBORS, DEEP WATER PORTS, AND TRANSPORTATION HUBS)
⇒RANGI PARADISE RESORTS (TOURISM INDUSTRIES) (THREE RESORTS)
⇒AVAK ARCHITECTS & BUILDERS (NAACAL PERSONNEL WITH THE COLLABORATION OF SWISS ARCHITECTS)

THE OVERALL INVESTMENT VALUES
⇒56 BILLION USD (231 BILLION CHF)
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Naacal

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The GCS government brought forth rounds of investments and business growth within the countries situated in the Northern Hemisphere. As the equal stagnation of the South and seeing that Vesperia had largely remained dormant in economic affairs, Swiss business looked elsewhere in their proximity to the Northeast, Northwest, and Meridian North. Troubles of Kulkkistani militant attacks further dissuaded long-haul trade to the South, where pirate attacks devastated local shipping lanes in the area. Goranian and Neuerstaat trade began to dwindle as the ongoing piracy remained unabated. Therefore, the expensive maintenance of Swiss businesses started to focus elsewhere that were both closer and safer. Plans for further social integration and immigration were abandoned as the GCS government was unfamiliar with Vesperian politics and internal affairs. Only a little was disclosed to the international community. These factors led to the inevitable shifts of investments; we were, simply, doing business for business's sake, nothing more and nothing less. In the end, the Swiss economy and industries focused their eyes once again on the Celestial Union and the Gullblat Enclave for increased economic flow, GDP GROWTH, AND BUSINESS GROWTH WITHIN THE ALPINE REGION. But other eggs were placed in other baskets, as trade between Tengerina and, very soon, Eastern Ardentia, grew further.

(((GULLBLAT ENCLAVE AND DISTANIC CONFEDERACY INVESTMENTS)))

(REPLY TO DISTAN RP: OPEN FOR BUSINESS)

These fresh waves of investments were to affect the Gullblat and Distanic industries of TELECOMMUNICATION, HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY/TOURISM, MASS MEDIA, HEALTHCARE/HOSPITALS, PUBLIC HEALTH, PHARMACY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, WASTE DISPOSAL, CONSULTING, GAMBLING, RETAIL SALES, FAST-MOVING CONSUMER GOODS (FMCG), FRANCHISING, REAL ESTATE, EDUCATION, FINANCIAL SERVICES, BANKING, INSURANCE, INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, LEGAL SERVICES, MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, TRANSPORTATION, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION-GENERATION, INFORMATION-SHARING, CONSULTATION, EDUCATION, FINANCIAL PLANNING, BLOGGING, AND DESIGNING, which were all purely within the tertiary and quaternary sectors. The general plan was to grow the Distanic economy into something even more advanced and well-developed. For the Enclave, the Swiss intended to maintain economic investments to keep their economy running, keeping up their pace with the rest of the world.
These new general services and information/knowledge-centered services growths boosted their overall domestic GDP, to which the Confederacy's primary and secondary sectors provided supplies for consumption; thus, increasing the nation’s supply and demand.

Emphasis on Swiss banking with other financial service establishments, dominated the investment schemes by the GCS, transferring USD 100 million (860 million CHF) to Distanic banks. THE RENOWNED SWISS BANKS OF CREDIT SUISSE AND UBS GROUP WERE AMONG THE TOP BANKS INVESTING WITHIN DISTAN, beginning Swiss influence and expansion into Tengerina. Shares were acquired within Distan banking firms; with their extensive collaborations, both banks improved financially, looking to expand elsewhere for more business opportunities. Imports of raw minerals and carbon-neutral metals heavily favored the hungry facilities of the Swiss industries, most especially their burgeoning chip manufacturing centers. Imports of Distanic minerals and metals were proposed to their government: over 20K tonnes per month were to be imported to the GCS.

Construction and Architectural plans were also invested in the Gullblat Enclave, offering joint projects between the Swiss Confederacy and the Alpine Candainian Enclave to improve their infrastructures. Underground settlements, like the BUNKER COMPLEXES AND THE SWISS OBLISK CUBES (AND OTHER SETTLEMENTS), were proposed by both governments to establish new cities underneath the Sprite's aging counterparts. With their new underground boroughs, new residential and industrial facilities were to be established permanently; with those new facilities, new economic growth and opportunities were well within sight.

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Swiss information industries, such as internet media, game studios, telecommunications, banking, and tourism expanded their collaborative projects with the Celestial Union and the other FIVE ALPINE ORGANIZATIONS. Banking and financial services were provided to Union citizens, establishing branches of trusted Alpine bank companies within the stable Swiss Confederacy and Candainian Enclave. Animation studios and media companies employed and collaborated more with Gullblat animation studios and film studios together on high-quality films and TV series.

(((OTYKEN INVESTMENTS)))

(REPLY TO OYTKEN POST RP: JUST IN TIME REALLY)

Otyken information industries banded together with their Swiss counterparts on media apps, telecommunication infrastructures, and AI algorithms. Much like the Swiss Confederacy’s outsources to Gullblat, Otyken firms, and institutions were contacted and briefed for further outsourcing, developing, and training AI algorithms and cybersecurity firms. Swiss game studios sought after Otyken workforces for their development of games and maintenance of their servers, as their expansions left the need for manpower behind.

These investments weren't limited to the outsourcing and expansion of Swiss game branches alone, the Technate boasted great polytechnic institutions and programs. Admired by their similar mindset towards technological progress, renowned Swiss universities (THE UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF JARUUN, THE UNIVERSITY OF RUBEZHAL, THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN, THE UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHATEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LAUSANNE, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH, AND THE NEW SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH) offered international, academic partnerships and student exchange programs to learn the nation’s hyper-advanced tech sectors.

Overall, economic competition between states remained strong despite the blossoming partnerships and foreign investments.

(((NAACAL INVESTMENTS)))

Another wave of Swiss investments poured again into the Islands of Naacal (albeit, those investments were much smaller than the previous). This time, their second share of investments amounted to USD 520 million (5.4 billion CHF), tapping into the Naacali energy infrastructures. Green technologies were their primary sources of Swiss funding, culminating in their focus on developing tidal wave energy. Swiss polytechnic institutions and Swiss CETI VALLEY companies agreed to facilitate joint programs to hasten renewable energy infrastructures, using tidal waves, solar power, and to some extent, wind. Thus, Swiss shares on Naacal’s Mana Nui Energy rose to 34-37 percent, allowing Naacali engineers to train within the GCS and provide materials for future energy projects.

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⇒MASS IMPORTS OF CHEAP DAY-TO-DAY PRODUCTS (OVER 600K TONNES EVERY MONTH)
⇒STUDENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE SWISS UNDERGROUND UNIVERSITY OF JARUUN, THE UNIVERSITY OF RUBEZHAL, THE UNIVERSITY OF BASEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF BERN, THE UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG, THE UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA, THE UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHATEL, THE UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF LUCERNE, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. GALLEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH, UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY LAUSANNE, THE SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH, AND THE NEW SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ZURICH
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⇒OVER 20K TONNES OF RAW MINERALS AND CARBON-NEUTRAL METALS EVERY MONTH
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THE OVERALL CELESTIAL UNION INVESTMENTS WITHIN GULLBLAT AND DISTAN ECONOMIC SECTORS

}}}TERTIARY SERVICES SECTOR (TELECOMMUNICATION, HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY/TOURISM, MASS MEDIA, HEALTHCARE/HOSPITALS, PUBLIC HEALTH, PHARMACY, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, WASTE DISPOSAL, CONSULTING, GAMBLING, RETAIL SALES, FAST-MOVING CONSUMER GOODS (FMCG), FRANCHISING, REAL ESTATE, EDUCATION, FINANCIAL SERVICES, BANKING, INSURANCE, INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, LEGAL SERVICES, MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, AND TRANSPORTATION)

}}}QUATERNARY SERVICE SECTORS (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, MEDIA, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION-BASED SERVICES SUCH AS INFORMATION-GENERATION AND INFORMATION-SHARING; AND KNOWLEDGE-BASED SERVICES SUCH AS CONSULTATION, EDUCATION, FINANCIAL PLANNING, BLOGGING, DESIGNING, CONSTRUCTION, AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNING)
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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
⇒EXPORT AND INVESTMENT WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION AND GULLBLAT
⇒DEVELOPMENT OF NEW GULLBLAT BOROUGHS
⇒OVERALL BOOST IN GDP AND MANPOWER FOR THE CELESTIAL UNION MEMBERS
⇒MASS EXPORTS TO OTYKEN, DISTAN, AND NAACAL
⇒OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND ACADEMIC PROGRESS WITH OTYKEN
⇒SHIFT OF TRADE AWAY FROM VESPERIA AND INTO NORTHERN COUNTRIES BY PROXIMITY
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Nation mentions:
The Distanic Confederacy
Candain
Otyken

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Basic training procedures were reformed and tailored to fit the innovations of their new assault rifles. When the new rifles reached 50K in numbers, the Chief of General Staff of the Army readied procedures with the rest of his ranking officers for formal basic training to get their soldiers familiarized with the weapon. In this training, the officers are also there to house and accommodate recruits numbering in 4K to strictly discipline them in combat formations, shooting, maintaining their equipment, etc. Due to the recent tensions in Europe, the PM, President, and the General Staff members were prompted to train their career soldiers as well as get additional men into the military to protect the nation, her sovereignty, and her interests, and as a result of their tensions, SIG SAUER AND OTHER MANUFACTURERS were pushed into maximum overdrive to produce their latest service rifles (THE SIG SG 550). The expected output of the two companies will be expected to reach over 60k-80k, depending on the severity of the situation the country befalls itself into. During that, their strict training and retraining for other small arms, such as anti-tank weapons, etc., were to continue.

First things first in basic training, individuality is severely suppressed to form the mentality of being in a team and working with a team. Second, control and conformity were other essential aspects that were drilled into the reformed training pipeline. The recruits' daily routines were highly controlled, which started from the morning until night. Conformity was emphasized to reinforce the mental aspect of being a part of a large team, and so, their marching formations and responses to the sergeant instructors' orders created a tight unity. By doing this, the training accustomed them to obeying orders instinctively; thereby, it created extremely disciplined unity within formations, especially during the heat of battle. Stress and punishment were common in the basic training process. This 3rd phase was the most important toward establishing high-performing soldiers in their army by hurling as many stressors into each recruit as much as possible. In doing this, it deprives them of any time to respond to the insults given to them by their sergeants, and it even persuades them to act better in serving as a soldier. After that, the establishment of hierarchical esteem was done to create strong bonds as a team.

Bonding activities were instituted within the army, and stories of heroic regiments were encouraged to solidify the hierarchy of respect and esteem. Intense aggression and objectification were another one of the most important of all in the training course. This stage stimulates the willingness to kill their enemy amongst the soldiers. Milling was also encouraged to bring about the aggression that the recruits needed. To dehumanize killing humans, they were taught to objectify humans as simple targets that just fall when shot with a bullet or slashed with a sword. Lastly, field craft and fitness were, again, another few essential factors in making great soldiers. They were taught basic skills within their professions such as military tactics, first aid, management of affairs in the field, and the use and maintenance of their weapons and equipment. Physical fitness was highly valued in the Swiss Armed Forces. Fitness throughout the body, such as high endurance training, high interval strength training, and aerobic and anaerobic exercises, have SIGNIFICANTLY improved controlling blood pressure, cancer prevention, inflammation, weight control, immunity to diseases, and most importantly, mental health. After their intense 3-5 month training, graduation and dropouts occurred. But for most trainees, over 90% graduated with great knowledge, discipline, and mental fortitude as official Swiss Army soldiers. Regular monthly training programs and procedures, in the mountains, were held by the Ministry of Defence to maintain the overall readiness and fitness of their soldiers. Although the trek in the valleys and vast highlands was very brutal, the soldier's mental fortitude toughened throughout the course as they carried pounds of equipment on their backs and in their backpacks. Mountain infantry divisions were among the most rigorously trained troops with mortars and ATGMs being brought high up in the mountainsides.

For their millions of sprite citizens, entirely different training regimes were implemented that were suited for their small size and flight capabilities. They were trained as scouts and skirmishes within their porcupine doctrines. Similar training regimes strictly disciplined the sprites, just like their human counterparts. Often, they'd be placed under the same units to promote greater teamwork among different sapient species, fostering strong bonds among fellow Swiss citizens. All sprites (except the smaller standard sprites) were trained with their sprite rifles and some regular rifles, which some greater and muspel sprites were able to operate. Mass production of poisonous darts was procured to arm the hundred million Swiss sprites, entrenched within their underground strongholds. CANDAINIAN POISON DARTS AMASSED TO THE TRILLIONS WITH BILLIONS OF SPRITE WEAPONS (((MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SPRITE MILITARY TRAINING WILL BE PUBLISHED IN THE NEAR FUTURE))).

The rest of the career soldiers retrained in the shooting fields, with the SG 550 rifles and other of the aforementioned secondary bolt action rifles, all across the garrisoned camps and barracks within the country. While new guns were being produced to fit all the Army’s active and reserved personnel, They were all also trained with other equipment and tactics for greater versatility in battle. But they were still capable of handling the weapons well. Again, they were drilled into shooting in tight formations, and again, they were drilled into delivering accurate fire against their belligerents. Their overall fitness was maintained, and daily work to keep the bases up and running was also kept in great shape. Again like the training that was conditioned into them, they did these routines for months, while also teaching and maintaining their level best to take care of their weapons and equipment.

IMAGE URL: IMAGES OF SWISS BASIC MILIARY TRAINING AND THE SIG SAUER SERVICE RIFLES (THEY ARE WITHIN THE SWISS MILITARY TRAINING AND SWISS SERVICE RIFLES SECTION BOX)

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The workhorse of the Swiss Air Force appeared beyond the flat plains and on tarmacadam runways of the Bern military airfields. The Bern Valleys covered the air base's northern and southern flanks but left more than enough clearance for planes to land safely. The Swiss General of the Air Force, with their air marshals, visited the meager facility, entertaining their bored pilots and staff personnel. The men in the ATC tower and on the ground watched five of their cargo planes take off with roars echoing through the rigid landscape.

“Cleared. Project Chandelier is a go.” Radios from headquarters to the base sent flurries of reports. ATMES-2G turboprops produced noise familiar to Swiss diplomats, who flew inside them to and out of their embassies (the most recent one being in Marovoay). However, in these flights, instead of peaceful means, these ordinary planes bore their teeth against their likely and unlikely foes. Inside the fuselage, the ATMES planes carried three bulky containers, which seemed to store up to 4 missiles each of some kind. But after their first test run, those missiles revealed themselves to the masses of the Swiss Air Force.

“Testing range. Cleared to fire. Prepare for hellfire.” The code word for the launch sequences was uttered through the speakers of the test pilots. Responding to HQ with their confirmations, switches were pulled inside the cockpit, opening the cargo bay doors for their daring drop. Men and women inside pushed each of the five bulks one by one, all of them safely pushed out of the cargo bay with built-in rollers. No failures so far from the five ATMES-2Gs, managing to drop all their ordinances.

“Shamrock. Igniting missiles.” Controllers of the missile, within the planes, engaged the missile's parachutes. Brief moments of silence seared through the crew, waiting for the parachuted missiles to reach their optimal altitude. A three-second delay was met with bursts of intense flame and heat; cruise missiles were on their way to their designated targets. The first wave of missiles decimated the surrounding area, but the performance was still lackluster in the eyes of the higher-ups. RTB through the radios signaled the end of their test run, but more plans were still ahead of schedule.

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THE ATMES-2G (THE PRIMARY SWISS CARGO PLANE)

Name: ATMES-2G Achilles
Type: Military transport and aerial refueler (with ground-support capabilities)
Powerplant(s): 4x 3,500 shp Turboprop engines

Capacity:
102 passengers
68 airborne troops
7 463L pallets
76 litter patients
45,000 lb Maximum Allowable Payload

Maximum Speed: 403 mph at 13,310ft
Service Ceiling: 29,124ft (with payload)
Range: 2,275 miles (at max normal payload)
Avionics: Long-range target finder, two twin remote-controlled turrets, long-range communications systems, advanced radar head, countermeasure systems, and warning systems.
Armament: n/a or 3x twin 25mm cannons (fitted inside a remote-controlled turret), but later variants removed the cannons for longer ranges and improved avionics
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THE SWISS MISSILE DESIGN BUREAU PROJECT TYPE
⇒CARGO LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES
⇒CARGO LAUNCHED ANTI-SHIP MISSILES
⇒CARGO LAUNCHED ANTI-SHIP CRUISE MISSILES
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⇒DOMESTIC SWISS ARMS PRODUCTION GROWTH
⇒OVERALL STRENGTHENED MILITARY ARMAMENTS AND CAPABILITIES
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IMAGE URL: IMAGES OF THE SWISS CARGO-LAUNCHED CRUISE MISSILES (THEY ARE WITHIN THE SWISS MISSILE/WARHEAD DESIGN BUREAU SECTION BOX)

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Underground facilities laid bare their peaceful ambitions, but some sought the opposite. Peace and prosperity were only achieved through military strength and advancements; these were their ambitions… The 27TH SWISS OBLISK CUBE covered vast expanses of hardened earth crusts, where the mega bunker complexes themselves were another series of fortresses and redoubts hidden underneath. Though more rectangular than its preferred name “the oblisk cube”, vast spacious research facilities were still ever so present and garnered no joke among the scientific community within the Swiss Confederacy (maybe even the world). Supercomputers and advanced research equipment were feasted upon the hungry scientists, looking to advance the reach of science further and acquire their rewards through military reconfigurations. Domestic exports of Swiss scientific equipment, vials, vaccines, and many other measuring products, tools, and equipment reached their destinations in the secretive zone, supposedly owned by the Swiss military and the Ministry of Defense. Unknown forces lurked deep beneath the Swiss basin and mountain ranges, guided by the ideals and passions to maintain their armed neutrality, no matter the cost.

[b][i]THE FAMED NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS (SPECIFICALLY THEIR RAZGRIZ BRANCH) were involved in almost all aspects of research, both civilian and military use. The military and other private defense corporations invested in top-secret weapons programs, further boosting their financial strength and research output. One of those advanced projects was the development and intense experimentation of possible neurological weapons using radars, radio waves, and other means to potentially fry or hinder the sapient brain. UTILIZING LARGE FREQUENCIES OF RADIOWAVES, THEIR FIRST NEUROWEAPON INVOLVED THE USE OF LONG-RANGE, EXTREMELY HIGH-FREQUENCY ATMOS CONRADARS, AS THEY WERE DUBBED. THE FIRST CONRADARS WERE BUILT NEAR THE MOUNTAIN PEAKS OF THE JURA ALPS, EMITTING MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF RADIATION WITHIN THE AREA. However, those experiments failed with no results shown. Instead, THE ATMOS CONRADARS HAVE DONE NOTHING MORE THAN JAM AND EAVESDROP ON OTHER RADAR FREQUENCIES, and with those results, alternative plans were made for their new findings. These clandestine research division branches comprised thousands of talented personnel, but largely gained funds from illegal activities internationally and domestically. Thus, partnerships between advanced nations and superpowers were key to maintaining their business operations; it was all in the mind of keeping the country safe from any potential enemies they may face.

(((OTYKEN PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS)))

Highly encrypted messages, from North West Ardentia, emanated deep within the alpine region. Talks of potential partnerships and joint development of secret technologies were said to entice the hyper-advanced technocratic state, which was highly regarded as one of the great powers within Kalrania. Known for their quintessential prowess in tech and research, THE RAZGRIZ BRANCH (UNKOWN EVEN TO THE REGULAR NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS) reached out to them, in hopes of financial aid and assistance. The first offers were proposed to the Otyken delegations and scientists:

Otyken personnel will be granted their space, within the 27TH OBLISK CUBE, for their research projects and access to domestic Swiss resources to aid in their endeavors.”

“However, their recent projects into mind weaving and rifts were not allowed to be conducted within GCS lands. Those projects would threaten the physical and mental environment of the facilities, and it may threaten their very existence if such experiments caused significant, unintended casualties for the populace above.”

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THE NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS (RAZGRIZ BRANCH) PROJECTS
⇒PSYCHOLOGICAL WEAPONS
⇒CHEMICAL WEAPONS
⇒BIOWEAPONS
⇒GENETIC MODIFICATIONS
⇒HYPER ADVANCED CYBERWARFARE
⇒NEURO WARFARE AND EXPERIMENTAL WEAPONS
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THE 27TH SWISS OBLISK CUBE (BUNKER LABORATORY COMPLEXES)

THE PROJECT LAYOUT OF THE 56TH OBLISK SWISS CUBE VMM1
⇒OVER 500K STRENGTHENED BUNKER SYSTEMS WITHIN THE OVERALL ESTIMATED AREA
⇒STRENGTHENED BLAST DOORS WITH THICK STEEL PLATING AND REINFORCED FRAMES
⇒THERE ARE THREE MORE BLAST DOORS WITH STRENGTHENED STRUCTURES TO MITIGATE SERIOUS SHOCKWAVES AND EXPLOSIVES
⇒THE PRIMARY PURPOSE WAS TO HOUSE OVER 200 MILLION MOTHIAN SPRITES, MOTHIAN HYBRIDS AMBERLEVIAN ANTS, AND HUMANS WITH RESIDENTIAL, BUSINESS, INDUSTRIAL, AND MILITARY SECTIONS

EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT STRUCTURES: SEISMIC RESISTANCE
⇒STRENGTHENED STEEL FRAMES WITH ADDITIONAL COLUMNS AND CRISSCROSS FRAMES.
⇒STEEL BOLTS AND JOINTS BETWEEN THE STRENGTHENED STEEL FRAMES AND CRISS CROSS FRAMES
⇒REINFORCED V-SHAPED PISTONS DAMPENERS
⇒STRENGTHENED LOAD-BEARING CONCRETE WALLS AND FLOORS WITH STEEL REBARS AND SHOCK ABSORBERS
⇒OVER 10K METRIC TONNES OF RUBBERIZED SHOCK ABSORBERS
⇒AND MANY OTHERS (((MORE WILL BE REVEALED IN LATER POSTS)))

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE:
⇒THE OBLISK ARCHITECTURE STYLE
⇒MODERN STYLE WITH ELEMENTS OF HAEMATSTIL ARCHITECTURE
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ACCESSORIES:
STRENGTHENED PROTECTIVE BUNKERS AND GARAGES.

ADVANCED ELEVATOR SYSTEMS. SPECIALIZED KEYPAD SECURITY SYSTEMS.

UNDERGROUND LAUNDRY ROOMS. AUTOMATED RADIATORS.

SECURED AND CENTRALIZED WIFI NANA CRYSTALLINE CABLE NETWORKS.

DOUBLE-LAYERED STEEL DOORS FOR ADDED SECURITY.

STRENGTHENED RESEARCH LABORATORIES.

PRISON ROOMS.

CENTRAL COMMAND CENTERS FOR EACH SECTION.

MASS SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS WITHIN THE LABYRINTHIAN HALLS AND ROOMS.

BIOLOGICAL CONTAINMENT FACILITIES.

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THE 27TH OBLISK CUBE DIMENSIONS
DEPTH: 2K FEET DEEP (600 METERS FROM THE PEAK OF THE BERNER ALPEN MOUNTAINS)
HEIGHT: 3K FEET
LENGTH: 5K FEET
WIDTH: 5K FEET
ROUGH OVERALL AREA: 25K FEET SQUARED
ROUGH OVERALL VOLUME: 75K CUBIC FEET
THE OVERALL ROUGH NUMBER OF ROOMS: 700 MILLION TO 900 MILLION
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⇒OVERALL SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
⇒ADVANCED WEAPONS RESEARCH
⇒STRENGTHENED RELATIONS AND JOINT RESEARCH WITH OYTKEN
⇒STRENGTHENED DOMESTIC EXPORTS OF SWISS TECH AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
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Domestic towns and cities in Switzerland, especially larger cities included, will begin a plan to limit energy usage and pollution per capita. Goals were set for each city for its unnecessarily wasting energy, utilizing regional government-incentivized ads through televisions, paper advertisements in newspapers, vehicles, and through the Swiss education system, from elementary to post-secondary institutes. The aim is to reduce costs, little by little, and maintain a consistent energy supply for many decades and many millennia. New initiatives for paper and plastic recycling were proposed with new incentives. However, the structure and foundations for future programs and policies are laid out.

Once larger cities have met their quotas, smaller cities and towns will be introduced to follow suit with energy-saving campaigns. Soon, metal and plastic recycling became a reality in all branches of government. Quotas and requirements, as well as, recycling companies, will be thoroughly improved as decades pass. Starting from the ‘60s and beyond, recycling has been a pivotal effort made by the capita in great participation due to Government education videos. Thus this raised awareness of its growing concerns of pollution. Mass infomercials will be placed regarding reusing all specific materials possible.

Startups for new policies and measures for successful recycling and compliance with such policies, to be imposed on large manufacturing companies, are underway. This includes programs and procedures to promote a balance in production, which would prevent mass pollution in the future while retaining its thriving economy. Over 1K drop-off centers in Switzerland’s largest surface cities and underground cities (WITH ALL FOUR PEOPLE GROUPS: HUMANS, ANTS, MOTHIAN HYBRIDS, AND SPRITES) for recycling and reusing materials for other productions and construction efforts wherever possible. Companies and communities joined in this effort to recycle and reuse products wherever necessary, such as buildings, infrastructures, and the manufacturing of other products.

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THE INTERNAL RECYCLING PROJECT MOD VM5
⇒RECYCLING DEPOSITORY STATIONS OVER THE SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND (FOR BOTH SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND CANTONS)
⇒PROCESSING BUSINESSES AND FACILITIES WITH INCENTIVES AND GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES
⇒RATIFIED MOTIONS AND LAWS OVER COMPANIES AND PUBLIC SPACES
⇒GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENTS REGARDING HOW TO PROPERLY RECYCLE ITEMS
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Strides within the government’s echelons and the upper house led to the assembly convening together, discussing the viability of top secret branches. Their new president, Marla Shifigte, a Swiss Jaru Mothian, fiercely supported and spearheaded these new motions, albeit controversially at the same time. Light on the deep end of the deep oceans revealed the nefarious, yet hyper-intelligent adaptivities of their physical and mental forms. Such similar descriptions categorized the entirety of the SWISS BLACK SITE RAZGRIZ BRANCH (THE SWISS SECRET RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION). Decisions between congress members convened on, the matter of, making the RAZGRIZ BRANCH independent of the NINE EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS. However, to avoid the potential growth of corruption within the branch, BLACK SITE RAZGRIZ BRANCHES WERE TO BE REGULATED AND MONITORED BY SWISS ORGANIZATIONS. But opposition parties still weren’t convinced. Even with good faith, they saw disasters these secretive groups could if left unmitigated. Yet, the leading Swiss figures, as well as the president, were hard-pressed to advance these audacious plans forward. Arguments soared within the assembly, yet their resolve never diminished. Proposals and numerous documents were drafted, amounting to tens of thousands of papers.

BOTH PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL DOCUMENTS WERE RECORDED, ARCHIVED, AND STORED SECURELY WITH EVERY MODIFICATION THEY MADE. They, along with the rest of their documents made over the years, were stored underneath the vast archivist’s libraries. However, critical information about the 2015 motions was sent to the ELBE ARCHIVE COMPLEXES for maximum security as a major precaution. Details of cooperation with the technate remained present within those large pools of files, inheriting secrets of their studies into extraterrestrial forces. Officials, from the Swiss government and the RAZGRIZ BRANCH themselves, implemented extreme measures to protect them from spies and foreign belligerents. Large concentrations of steel, concrete, shock absorbers, and many other technologies surrounded and protected said valuable projects. Protocols were made to add to their defensive apparatus, transporting them deeper within other heavily protected bunker facilities.

Extensive redrafts and reviews delayed forwarding and congressional approval, but these were done to remove inconsistencies within their new series of charters. After three weeks, the final drafts finally led to security measures agreed upon by all parties. However, a few more months took place before ratification was achieved. February 2015 was when the forceful push commenced, but it took until May for the ratification process to begin.

THE 2015 MOTION CREATED THE FOLLOWING SWISS CIVIL RESEARCH AND DISTRIBUTION DIVISIONS (THE CIVILIAN TECH COMPANY BRANCH), EQUIVALENT WITHIN THE RAZGRIZ BRANCH AND THE RAZGRIZ SITE. THEIR PURPOSES WERE TO PROMOTE, EXPORT, AND INVEST IN VARIOUS DOMESTIC SWISS INDUSTRIES AND OVERSEAS FIRMS WITH THEIR LATEST ADVANCEMENTS IN CIVIL TECHNOLOGIES AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES. BUT THIS EXCLUDES ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM THE JOINT SWISS-OTYKEN PROJECTS. They became another official governing body to handle exports and public use of their research findings, often collaborating and investing in other industrial research and technological developments. Overseas investments from the national company occurred, but only on rare occasions. Simple exports needed high degrees of trust and stability within a particular nation-state.

The next few days oversaw the complete ratification of the motion, recognizing their first-ever top-secret branches and programs. Marla rejoiced at her administration's success, but these events sowed the seeds for something even more controversial, in the future. All eyes watched her keenly and cautiously. Her boldness and tenacity were drivers for revolutionizing reforms and improvements, but it had its risks of stepping too far out of line. Nevertheless, THE CIVILIAN TECHNOLOGIES EXPORT MOTIONS RND TDP
VMM450, AS THEY WERE DUBBED, AND, AT THE SAME TIME, THE (EUV INVESTMENT MOTIONS) PASSED WITH THE CREATION OF NATIONAL TECH COMPANIES TO EXPORT THEIR DESIGNS, TECHNIQUES, AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES DOMESTICALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY. IN ADDITION, THE EUV INVESTMENTS SUBSEQUENTLY ENSURED DOMINANCE ON THE ALL-IMPORTANT CHOKE POINTS, WHICH HELPED TO AID THE SWISS CONFEDERACY'S INTENSE DRIVE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. HOWEVER, THESE MOTIONS ONLY INVOLVED THE EXPORTS OF TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS. DONE SEPARATELY FROM THE TOP SECRET RAZGRIZ BRANCH, THE DARKER ARTS AND PROJECTS WITH OTYKEN WERE STRICTLY PROHIBITED FROM ANY FORM OF EXPORTS, WHICH THE HEAVILY DEFENDED ELBE ARCHIVE BUNKER COMPLEXES. THE INNER SANCTUMS OF THE RAZGRIZ SITE, DEEPER UNDERNEATH THE SETTLEMENTS, WERE WHAT GUARDED AND CONTAINED OTYKEN SECRETS.
Applications of structural reinforcements and enhanced steel/metal materials (ALL OF WHICH WERE HIGHLY CLASSIFIED) made the underground structures nearly impervious to natural and supernatural events. But the constant focus on improvement, of those strengthened structures, never left the minds of Swiss scientists and engineers alike.

Many of the Elbe archival sites, over the surface, were built with similar elements of advanced infrastructure and construction materials, albeit unequivalent to the underground RAZGRIZ SITE. Town settlements were erected on top of the bunker systems with national government employees, residential areas, industries, and national civil tech companies, working to export and collaborate with domestic Swiss and overseas industries. However, much of the facilities were heavily guarded within and without (((MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE ELBE ARCHIVAL SITES WILL BE PUBLISHED WITHIN SEPARATE POSTS))).

Marla Shifigte not only spearheaded the development of their official black sites, but they also approved of several new RAZGRIZ SITES within the Swiss Confederacy, whether it be under the mountains, rivers, or the oceans. With their series of significant motions, the year 2015 became what’s known to them as THE GREAT SWISS RESEARCH AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. Many came to view its contents with praise and disdain, at the same time; it was truly one of the most controversial histories of the GCS.

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THE OFFICIAL NINE RAZGRIZ EXP RESEARCH DIVISIONS (THE SWISS CONFEDERACY'S TOP SECRET BLACK SITE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BRANCH)

CODENAME: THE 27TH (THE 27TH RAZGRIZ) (THE RAZGRIZ SITES)

THEIR PRIMARY PURPOSES:
⇒THEY WERE TO CONDUCT EXTENSIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INTO HYPER-ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES, TECHNIQUES, INTER-DIMENSIONAL SCIENCES, GENETIC ENGINEERING, CYBERNETIC ENHANCEMENTS, ADVANCED CYBERSECURITY,
ADVANCED WEAPONRY, AND OTHER USEFUL TECHNOLOGIES/STUDIES
⇒THEY WERE TO SAFEGUARD OTYKEN DOCUMENTS PHYSICALLY AND DIGITALLY ABOUT THEIR EXTENSIVE STUDIES AND KNOWLEDGE OF INTER-DIMENSIONAL SCIENCES

(THESE TOP SECRET DOCUMENTS

(((THE OFFICIATION OF THE 27TH RAZGRIZ BRANCH PROVIDED STRENGTHENED DOMESTIC AND OVERSEAS INVESTMENT GROWTHS WITH EXTREMELY TRUSTED PARTNERS)))

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(((THEY WERE ORGANISED TO EXPORT USEFUL CIVILIAN TECHNOLOGIES AND STUDIES TO ACQUIRE MORE INVESTMENTS AND STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC STIMULATION WITHIN THE SWISS CONFEDERACY)))

THEIR PRIMARY PURPOSE: THEY WERE TO PROMOTE, EXPORT, AND INVEST IN VARIOUS DOMESTIC SWISS INDUSTRIES AND OVERSEAS FIRMS WITH THEIR LATEST ADVANCEMENTS IN CIVIL TECHNOLOGIES AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES. BUT THIS EXCLUDES ANY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM THE JOINT SWISS-OTYKEN PROJECTS.
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⇒STRENGTHENED BUREAUCRACY WITHIN THEIR BLACK SITE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRIES
⇒STRENGTHENED NATIONAL STRENGTH AND RESEARCH TALENT
⇒IMPROVED ADVANCED RESEARCH OUTPUTS
⇒STRENGTHENED ADVANCEMENTS IN TECH AND OTHER SCIENCES (ESPECIALLY INTER-DIMENSIONAL SCIENCES)
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IMAGE URL: THE ROUGH SKETCHES OF THE SWISS 27TH OBLISK CUBE (RAZGRIZ SITE) (THEY ARE WITHIN THE SWISS RESEARCH BUNKER SECTION BOX)

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(((THE 2015 EUV ADV VMM70M0 MOTION)))

Stagnation within highly developed economies remained rampant as the rate of progress nearly reached the ceiling. Their aftereffects were felt even in the Swiss economy, where innovation dropped by two percent. Although the nation and the alpine region were some of the leading countries and areas in terms of technological development and prowess, further stimulus incentives and subsidies were needed, in addition, to maintain their growth rates within positive margins. Deep research, into the physical state of chip supply chokepoints, identified one of the most important chokepoints of all: the designing and manufacturing of EUV Lithography machines themselves.

Such machines utilize focused UV light inside the shiny metal boxes the size of a bus, which was only successfully done by altering the light’s trajectory with mirrors. With the minute (my-noot), yet, concentrated beams of light, patterns were etched onto their microscopic templates with the size of only a billionth of a meter across. Tin droplets largely aided in their achievements of etching, where the lasers were fired at 30K times a second; this, in turn, created dense plasma that emits ultraviolet light with wavelengths stretching 13.5 nanometers. Every design, conducted by both Alpine countries, featured vacuum seals from within, which protected UV light from dissipating with natural air (and the airborne particles it hosts).

EUVs were pivotal machines within the hectic global supply chains; they were the origin points of where and how we got our advanced technologies today. Many of the Swiss humans, Jarun mothians, Sweizzer Faeries, Muspels, and Standard engineers knew of the stakes this amount of investment cost. But at the same time, these joint ventures with the Enclave could ensure economic stability and stable growth of chip supplies within an ever-increasing multi-polar world. The Alpine Region alone could dominate the overall tech markets, boosting its export-oriented economy to greater heights. THOSE STARK LACK OF CONTROL OVER CHOKE POINTS AND THE REWARD THEIR JOINT VENTURES WOULD BRING, WITHIN THE ALPINE CHIP INDUSTRIES, ADDRESSED THE SWISS CONFEDERACY AND THE GULLBLAT ENCLAVE WITH BRAND NEW ENDEAVOURS. WITH THOSE FACTORS IN MIND, THE SWISS GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRIES BEGAN THEIR CAMPAIGNS TO INVEST AND ARDUOUSLY DEVELOP THEIR EUV MACHINES. EFFORTS FROM THE GCS AND THE CELESTIAL UNION WERE MADE TO PASS MORE STRATEGIC AND ECONOMIC INVESTMENT MOTIONS; THEIR LATEST ONES WERE THE EUV ADV VMM70M0 MOTIONS 2015. THESE MOTIONS INVOLVED FURTHER INVESTMENTS INTO RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, AND THE COMPLETE CREATION OF LOCAL CHIP MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT. THESE INVESTMENT MOTIONS, FROM BOTH THE GOVERNMENT AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS, CULMINATED IN THE 2015 EUV ADV VMM70M0 MOTION AND THE SWISS ALPINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ARAD VMMD560 MOTION 2015. With the help of the Celestial Union, the Joint Alpine Civil Intelligence and Defence Association, and the Joint Alpine Technology and Business Advancement Association altogether, GULLBLAT AND SWISS CHIP COMPANIES PROPELLED THEIR JOINT EUV PROJECTS WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE VMM1 AND VMM2, AS OF 2015 THIS YEAR. Investments from the organizations provided substantial catalysts to hasten their efforts, but, with the pace of the changing global economy, more funding and support were needed to keep up the pace. Exports of Sprite chip-making parts, tools, and equipment were imported, while other necessary designs and parts were exported from the Swiss Confederacy. THE VMM1 AND VMM2 EUVS PROVED SUCCESSFUL DURING THEIR FIRST THOUSAND TEST RUNS, BUT MORE PROJECTS WERE SPEARHEADED TO BUILD NEXT-GENERATION EUV MACHINES. Analysts predicted the Alpine Region and their fabrication facilities would gain significant traction, within the tech supply chain, by 2020.

(((THE SWISS ALPINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ARAD VMMD560 MOTION 2015)))

With the new investment motions over EUVs, another motion of investments was also passed and ratified for subsidies, allowing the growth of domestic and overseas investments to be poured into all Swiss industries and research firms. Investment in think tanks was part of the scheme, emboldening the populace and their business to establish start-ups within the vast tech industries. Therefore, innovation and competition, within Swiss and Gullblat societies, were highly encouraged to promote greater productivity, investments, and capital. THESE TWO ECONOMIC INVESTMENT MOTIONS WERE PASSED IN TANDEM WITH THE RECENT SECRET RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MOTION, CREATING THE RAZGRIZ BRANCH AND THE SWISS CIVIL RESEARCH AND DISTRIBUTION DIVISIONS (THE CIVILIAN TECH COMPANY BRANCH). INDUSTRIES, POSITIVELY AFFECTED BY THESE SIGNIFICANT 2015 RATIFICATIONS, INVOLVED ALMOST ALL MANUFACTURING AND SERVICE SECTORS WITHIN BOTH THE SWISS CONFEDERACY AND THE GULLBLAT ENCLAVE. With their cards in full display, the GCS was expected to pass the USD 6.5 to 8 trillion threshold in the next coming decade.

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THE JOINT ALPINE REGION CHIP MANUFACTURING PROJECTS
⇒THE CREATION OF DOMESTIC CHIP MANUFACTURING EQUIPMENT
⇒THE CREATION OF ANOTHER CHOKEPOINT SITUATED WITHIN THE ALPINE REGION
⇒STRENGTHENED NATIONAL SECURITY OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES BY PROXIMITY
⇒THE ADVANCEMENTS OF ALPINE CHIP INDUSTRIES WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION
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THE SWISS GULLBLAT ALPINE CHIP MANUFACTURING DESIGNS

VMM1: COMPLETED

VMM2: COMPLETED

VMM18: ONGOING

VMM40D: ONGOING

VMM42D: ONGOING

VMM50: TBA

VMM100D SERIES: TBA

(((MORE PROJECTS COMING SOON)))

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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
⇒STRENGTHENED DOMESTIC EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY MACHINE PRODUCTION
⇒STRENGTHENED CHIP PRODUCTION INVESTMENTS WITHIN THE ALPINE REGION
⇒STRENGTHENED EXPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH
⇒STRENGTHENED JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND UNITY WITHIN THE CELESTIAL UNION AND THEIR TECH INDUSTRIES
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IMAGE URL: THE SWISS EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY MACHINE VMM1 AND VMM2 (CHIPMAKERS) (THEY ARE HIDDEN IN THE SWISS EXTREME ULTRAVIOLET LITHOGRAPHY MACHINE (CHIPMAKERS) PROJECTS SECTION BOX)

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RP: IRBM Project start

"Ladies and gentlemen, esteemed colleagues, and fellow citizens,

As the Minister of Defense of our proud nation, Dacia, it is with a sense of duty and determination that I stand before you today to address a matter of paramount importance: the initiation of the Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) project.

In the face of an ever-evolving global landscape, it is imperative that Dacia takes proactive measures to safeguard our sovereignty, protect our people, and secure our future. The decision to embark on the IRBM project is not one taken lightly, but rather one born out of a deep-seated commitment to ensuring the safety and security of our nation.

The world we inhabit is fraught with challenges and uncertainties, where threats to our security can manifest in various forms and from multiple directions. In such a volatile environment, possessing a credible deterrent becomes not just a strategic advantage but a fundamental necessity.

-Speech of the Dacian Minister of Defense Teodose Iancu

Sodor and Seljaryssk wrote:

RP: A tragedy surely
(Responding to the not secret segment)
The SI intelligence branch, ever vigilant, would detect that Sodor was sticking their fingers in the pie unwantedly; like usual, so the dark minds would devise a warning plot to stay out of this matter, not a letter or anything like that, but far worse.

Likely a controlled substance in Nonadia so it had to be smuggled in under the radar, they would equip themselves with jugs of sulfuric acid (Which just looked like normal water bottles) and some very inconspicuous PPE to conduct the attacks often done in crowded place, but usually in public or at night they'd nonchalantly splash acid in the face of Sodor citizens often women or young girls and retreat into the crowd or wherever. The intent was not to kill any of them, just send a message those conducting the attacks wore sunglasses that doubled as PPE, hats (With common nationalism symbols to cause outrage), and white neck gaiters all as protection. The methodical teams had getaway vehicles and plenty of resources conducting over 500 attacks in the span of a few weeks.

This incident is tied to the operation in Nonadia to inflict a strict racial policy, though their initial contract was not to remove Sodor citizens their own disdain did this.

Relevant Pings
Nonadia
Laurentiea
Sodor and Seljaryssk

RP: Island Hop
Relevant Pings: Amberleaf, Gartentor
A cluster of 5 islands north of Amberleaf became a focal point of the Technate as they expanded and lay claim on the islands which they believe to contain archeological significance to Absukian history for their reasoning. Over the span of several years a huge quantity of ships would unload equipment and conduct construction to rapidly build bases and research sites including ammunition dumps and runways. The islands had a significant amount of radar systems and hydrophones around it and almost always had missile defences pointed towards Amberleaf, but the island was clearly for Archeology and the presence was merely a precaution because of Amberleaf aggression towards Oryken and their current political turmoil. Logistical shipping hubs and airports became commonplace; the actual investment for rapid development was quite intense and fortifications were abundant.

The Otykenese on the island did conduct digs and ferried over a substantial portion of Paramilitaries to guard the sites though they had the alternative motive of being combatants, Otyken did discard the declaration of war so minimizing the use of regulars was still an important aspect of the operation as they weren't at war with Amberleaf or rather it was one-sided nevertheless they didn't bury their heads in the sand and had substantial assets to intercept or repell a marine invasion if necessary. The depots and docks would be an excellent pivot point to get stuff to gartendor one device they planned was Narco-submarine type vehicles to smuggle stuff in, now that the range was substantially less this became more viable as they didn't need to cross nearly as much open ocean or have the huge full stocks like before. Various models of Narco-submarine would be lodged here and loaded up for a steady stream of clandestine deliveries, unfortunately they wouldn't be able to meet the needs for armored vehicles as only two could fit inside the narco-submarines at a time whereas plenty of supplies and munitions could be loaded up.

To add some legitimacy further and civilian targets they imported a bunch of Naacal to the islands all expenses paid and opened an asylum to gartendor where they could put people or really anything they wanted.

Supply Delivery
Artillery:
345,000 x Artillery Shells
210,000 x Assorted Mortar Shells
500 x Assorted Mortars
100 x Assorted Artillery
3,000 x Single-Use Rocket Artillery

Explosives and Mines:
5 x 10,000 kg Anti-Tunnel Bombs
10,000 x Claymore Anti-Personnel Mines
20,000 x Landmines (Assorted Types)
10,000 x Satchel Heavy-Demolition Charges

Drones and Automated Systems:
15 x Butane Automated Wildfire Drones
1,000 x Modified Pesticide Sprayer Drones
10,000 x Mini Kamikaze Drones
500 x Wire-Guided Tunnel Warfare Kamikaze Drones
1,000 x Small Recon/Kamikaze Drones
30,000 x Pesticide Agricultural Drones (Reconfigured)

Rocket and Grenade Systems:
3,000 x Deployable Unguided Thermobaric Rocket Artillery + 3,000 Additional Rockets
3,000 x Direct Attack Thermobaric Rocket Launchers + 8,000 Additional Rockets
50,000 x Lethal Gas Grenades
50,000 x Incendiary Grenades
50,000 x Fragmentation Grenades

Firearms and Ammunition:
160,000 x Assault Rifles + Loads of AP Ammunition
500 x MANPADS
500 x ATGM + 1,000 Rockets

Protective Gear and Chemicals:
50,000 x Ant PPE Sets
80,000 x Armor Sets (Plate carrier, plates, helmets, ballistic glasses etc. modeled to fit ant species)
60,000 x Barrels of Cypermethrin Aerosol (Ant-Neurotoxin)

Miscellaneous:
1,000,000kg of Napalm Munitions (Artillery shells, Mortars, Guided Bombs, Semi Guided Rockets, etc.)
1,000 x Loitering Munitions (Assorted types)
3 x Hard-Disks with Guerrilla warfare, pesticide chemical synthesis, and IED explosive manufacturing guides
20,000 x Pesticide Power Sprayers

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(((ALL DONE!)))

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Change within the Swiss economy became ever more prominent, as the Confederacy began to export more than they imported. Manufacturing industries and investments upgraded their economy into manufacturing and service-based powerhouses. Thus, with higher exports, the value of the Swiss Franc slowly, but steadily, dropped to accommodate more growth in production, domestic consumption, and overseas consumption. The mindsets of the Swiss were rich with passion, innovation, ingenuity, tenacity, and boldness, which significantly aided in their endeavors and achievements of new startup companies and major establishments. However, imports of other manufactured high-tech goods stiffened local competition. With higher Neuerstaat currency values (more than usual export-focused economies), expenses on their goods grew unsustainable, with added taxes, expensive shipping fees, and ongoing pirate activities. Northern shipping lanes were far more lucrative, and safer to transport, due to the distance between the region and Kulkkistani militants. THE SO-CALLED NORTHERN REIGN CAMPAIGNS largely saw great success. With the establishment of ports in Naacal, their campaigns oversaw a rise in profits than their southern counterparts, aiding the now sprawling, northern trade routes.

The Swiss Government inevitably, and regrettably, reversed past trade deals with the Vesperian nation of Neuerstaat. Trade between Tengerina and NW Ardentia favored the insatiable Swiss economy; less expensive goods and higher quality services in Otyken rightfully caught the attention of Swiss industries and businesses.

(((SWISS NORTHERN TRADE AGREEMENTS)))

Economic disruptions within the southern shipping lanes wreaked havoc on container ships from Kulkkistani missiles, forcing shipping companies to look elsewhere for trade. Thus, they diverted their attention back to the northeast. The mighty nations of Dzeia, Otyken, Honalulu, Owlet, Distan, and FOA were among the new candidates for renewed Swiss and Gullblat trade. Trade within the Celestial Union, overall, oversaw economic growth from their strengthened trade routes in the north. Exports of high-tech products, precision tools, scientific equipment, semiconductor chips, heavy industries, and the vast array of Swiss services flowed through the northern oceans. Raw resources from Distan; light products, high-tech, automobiles, and smart cars from Otyken; IT products, high-tech goods, and services from Owlet; and other manufactured products from FOA and Dzeia flowed back to the NW Ardentia. The oceanic region alone accounted for over USD 3.4 TRILLION in value, alone.

(((UPDATED TRADE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GCS AND NEUERSTAAT; STRENGTHENED HIGH-TECH INVESTMENTS)))

All Neuerstaat products were largely replaced with trade from other partners, such as their high-tech automobiles. The East Tengerinian Technocracy overtook Neuerstaat exports and Swiss imports, becoming one of the Swiss Confederacy’s largest trading partners (second to the Candainian Gullblat Enclave); thus, Swiss luxury goods, other products, and services were exported to Otyken markets.

Other forms of trade, such as special agricultural products, minerals, metals, rare earth elements, heavy machinery, day-to-day products, and other manufactured products diversified to several nations, situated within the Northeastern corner. Candainian Owlet IT infrastructures and cables delivered their finished designs to Alpine Region's joint moth net and 5G upgrades, supplying them with multitudinous cables and services. Vice-versa, with the Gullblat Enclave to Owlet; Gullblat muspels and standard installations of next-generation underwater internet cables were underway to upgrade data links and communications between Moth factions. In turn, the GCS AND THE CELESTIAL UNION EXPORTED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES, PHARMACEUTICALS, VARIOUS OTHER PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES, REVITALIZING ENCLAVE TRADE.

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THE SWISS NORTHERN TRADE AGREEMENTS

SWISS AND CELESTIAL UNION EXPORTS
⇒HIGH-TECH
⇒SEMICONDUCTORS
⇒HEAVY INDUSTRIES
⇒PHARMACEUTICALS
⇒CHEMICALS
⇒PRECISION TOOLS
⇒MEDTECH
⇒MEDICAMENTS
⇒SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
⇒LUXURY FASHION
⇒LUXURY WATCHES
⇒LUXURY APPAREL
⇒LUXURY CARS
⇒ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES
⇒CONSTRUCTION SERVICES
⇒MEDICAL SERVICES

OTYKEN TRADE
⇒HIGH-TECH PRODUCTS
⇒LIGHT INDUSTRIES
⇒AUTOMOBILES
⇒SMART CARS
⇒IT SERVICES
⇒TECHNICAL SERVICES
⇒OTHER SERVICES

DISTANIC CONFEDERACY TRADE
⇒RAW MINERALS
⇒CARBON NEUTRAL METALS
⇒AUTOMOBILES
⇒OTHER MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS

OWLET TRADE
⇒NANA CRYSTALLINE CABLE NETWORKS
⇒NEXT GENERATION MOTH NET INFRASTRUCTURES
⇒PRECISION TOOLS
⇒IT SERVICES
⇒ARCHITECTURAL SERVICES
⇒FINANCIAL SERVICES
⇒OTHER SERVICES

FEDERATION OF AFRICA TRADE
⇒AGRICULTURAL GOODS

DZEIA TRADE
⇒MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
⇒SERVICES

HONALULU TRADE
⇒RAW MINERALS
⇒RARE EARTH METALS
⇒HEAVY MACHINERY

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THE STRENGTHENED HIGH-TECH INVESTMENTS
⇒STRENGTHENED INVESTMENTS IN DESIGNING AND PRODUCING DOMESTIC SWISS SMARTPHONES, TABLETS, COMPUTERS, AND OTHER HIGH-TECH PRODUCTS
⇒INCREASED TARIFFS ON NEUERSTAAT HIGH-TECH GOODS AND CARS
⇒SWISS EXPORTS OF LUXURY GOODS AND SERVICES DIVERTED TO THE NORTHERN NATIONS

(((SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION OF NEUERSTAAT IMPORTS)))

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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
⇒GROWTH OF NORTHERN TRADE ROUTES
⇒CHEAPER IMPORTS FROM OTYKEN
⇒STRENGTHENED INVESTMENT AND COMMITMENT TO THE NORTHERN REIGN CAMPAIGNS

SIGNIFICANT CHANGES
⇒REDUCTION OF TRADE WITH NEUERSTAAT
⇒INCREASED TRADE WITH OTYKEN, NAACAL, HONALULU, FOA, DZEIA, CANDAINIAN OWLET ENCLAVE, AND THE DISTANIC CONFEDERACY
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Nation mentions
Candain (Owlet Enclave)
Otyken
The Distanic Confederacy
The Dze Tribes (Dzeia)
Naacal
Kemonomica (Honalulu)
Federation of Africa
Neuerstaat

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With the increased GDP output of the nation comes significant tax revenues for the government to utilize. Thus, the new year budget directed investments in their education sector, which they aspired to provide better quality academic institutions and programs than it had in the past few years. While EH (IB) courses and programs were ongoing in some post-secondary high schools, the NEW YEAR growth plan ensured their continued longevity to provide university-level education early in their lives. As a result, new EH programs were invested by the government and the school boards for other schools within other Cantons.

Nevertheless, large committees of school boards, pre-schools, elementary schools, post-secondaries, military academies, and universities came together to discuss where the money would go within all four branches. Teachers, professors, instructors, students, and other staff members convened with one another to procure lists for the government and school boards to allocate funding, and they came up with several plans and proposals after months of discussions.

(((HIGHSCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY SCHOOL BOARDS)))

The majority of the post-secondary and university school boards agreed to the consensus of funding new curriculums, courses, language studies, cultural studies, and other programs for students to diversify their studies, explore the diverse cultures of their differing sapient species, and specialize in their career paths. Another set of proposed items from the two boards were cleaner washrooms, updated computer labs, and earthquake-proof school buildings, which would improve the student’s experience and overall well-being. With the growth of domestic and foreign computer chips, prices for advanced designs were abundant and cheap with trillions in the market. The focus of earthquake-proof designs was mainly situated in the western and center Cantons, which were highly prone to natural disasters. So, a nationwide effort to protect their citizens was extended to the entirety of the Swiss Confederacy by strictly regulating standards of earthquake-proofing buildings.

(((PRESCHOOL AND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BOARDS)))

Preschool and elementary school boards proposed a slight increase in their teacher salaries and built support systems for students struggling with mental health. Improved training of councilors and teachers was also submitted in the proposals, calling for qualified staff members and management to handle required tasks.

((((MILITARY ACADEMY SCHOOL BOARDS)))

Staff members and students submitted similar notions from the previous two. Generally, they also wanted programs and counseling to help with their mental health. Other demands were better courses, teaching staff, and training programs to help them transition into the military as full-fledged officers. The proposals were organized and separated into thick and plastic laminated documents, copying and archiving the data for safekeeping, as usual. The Ministry of Education, in tandem with the Ministry of the Interior, worked hand-in-hand to deliver the investments properly to their designated locations. Thus, they asked, and they shall soon receive.

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EDUCATION INSTITUTE LEVEL INVESTMENTS
}}}GRADE SCHOOLS
}}}HIGH SCHOOLS
}}}UNIVERSITIES
}}}MILITARY ACADEMIES
}}}TRADE SCHOOLS
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THE OVERALL FUNDING ALLOCATION PLANS
}}}CURRICULUMS
}}}SPECIALIZATION PROGRAMS
}}}EH (AB) COURSES
}}}SALARIES
}}}MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT PROGRAMS
}}}IMPROVED COUNSELING
}}}STAFF TRAINING
}}}EARTHQUAKE PROOF SCHOOLS
}}}CLEANER WASHROOMS
}}}UPDATED COMPUTER LABS
}}}AND MANY OTHERS
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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}EDUCATION BUSINESSES (BOTH PUBLIC AND PRIVATE)
}}}ROAD NETWORKS (INFRASTRUCTURES)
}}}HIGHER QUALITY EDUCATION PROGRAMS
}}}GREATER ACCESS TO IB COURSES FOR ALL STUDENTS FROM ALL SOCIAL CLASSES
}}}STRENGTHENED EDUCATION REGARDING DIFFERENT SPECIES, LANGUAGES, AND CULTURES
}}}STRENGTHENED SOCIAL INTEGRATION
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With the Swiss having begun their establishment in chip designing and manufacturing within the heartland of the Alpine region, their new Swiss chip companies, such as GXC, GXC GMC, THOROS, POSDEM, SCDEV, COMNET, CONDWALL, HMDV, NAT CODM, AND NOMAD, have laid out their operations and grow their exports across the Celestial Union and with its free markets. Research and design companies involved in the semiconductor industries established their facilities near the renowned universities of Switzerland, known for their high-quality programs and training in computer sciences and many other information technologies. These universities would, essentially, train and prepare students to work within live industries with greater access to internships and employment after graduating. These students domestically and internationally would go on to design and revolutionize semiconductor designs. New projects of more advanced nanometer chips were said to be in development, especially with GXC AND GXC GMC, WHERE THEY HAVE PARTNERED WITH POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITIES AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES. Types of Swiss computer chips were now being produced at 20K monthly tonnage. MANY MEMORY CHIPS, MICROPROCESSORS, STANDARD CHIPS, AND COMPLEX-SYSTEMS-ON-A- CHIP (SOCS) were churned out in the CETI BERN VALLEY OR CETI VALLEY, advancing Switzerland and the Gullblat Enclave's capabilities to manufacture their chips with greater performance and lower costs. Bilateral free trade agreements largely supported the production and incredulous exports to the larger nations outside of the Union, and soon plans for exports towards Tengerina, and the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, were in the works.

The Celestial Union, along with AFMP agreements held by the Schengen Zones, collaborated with the Swiss research institutes and companies to further develop better designs and blueprints, securing all of them within safe containers and highly protected facilities. Innovative products were being jointly developed behind closed doors while exports of more chips grew by the week. The amount of semiconductors being exported to Eastern markets held steady at 10K-20K tonnage per month, but as technologies further advance over the years, the factories gear up to procure more as demand skyrockets. GXC AND GXC GMC were leading that path forward, paving the way for Switzerland to advance and take their place in the forefront of advancements. New works into quantum tech were rumored to have begun, but those are still highly classified.

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THE OVERALL SWISS SEMICONDUCTOR PRODUCTION TYPES
}}}MEMORY CHIPS
}}}MICROPROCESSORS
}}}STANDARD CHIPS
}}}COMPLEX-SYSTEMS-ON-A- CHIP (SOCS)

THE SWISS CHIP MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
}}}GXC
}}}GXC GMC
}}}THOROS
}}}POSDEM
}}}SCDEV
}}}COMNET
}}}CONDWALL
}}}HMDV
}}}NAT CODM
}}}NOMAD

THE SWISS CHIP EXPORTS TO OTHER COUNTRIES
⇒NAACAL
⇒THE GULLBLAT ENCLAVE
⇒BALTOCARPATHIA
⇒AMBERLEAF
⇒DISTANIC CONFEDERACY
⇒RYKENSVIK
⇒VORSTHEIM (REDPEPPERS)
⇒THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF SKYLARVANIA
⇒SOLINGARCH
⇒DZEIA (THE DZE TRIBES)
⇒BRENNUS
⇒HONALULU (KEMONOMICA)
⇒AND OTHERS
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THE MONTHLY EXPORTS TO GLOBAL MARKETS
}}}10K-20K TONS PER MONTH
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THE OVERALL IMPROVEMENTS
}}}OVERALL DOMESTIC CHIP DESIGN GROWTH
}}}OVERALL DOMESTIC CHIP MANUFACTURING
}}}SWISS INVESTMENTS ON THEIR CHIP MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
}}}CHIP TRADE WITH THE CELESTIAL UNION AND OTHERS OUTSIDE OF THE UNION
}}}THE ALPINE REGION’S STAKE IN THE GLOBAL CHIP MANUFACTURING COMPETITION
}}}CHIP EXPORTS TO THE MAJOR POWERS
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IMAGE URL: THE DESIGN IMAGES FROM THE JOINT CHIP PROJECT WITH CANDAIN (THEY ARE WITHIN THE JOINT CHIP PROJECTS SECTION BOX)

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