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21 September

Professor Zakaria Boisón, the head of the department of history at the University of Guršaun, published a controversial article titled "On the Sequoyah Problem". The professor, who became popular within Terranihil for his promotion of the Jewish Holocaust conspiracy theory, has a long track record of publications that, although do not contradict official Terranilian stances on certain issues, still gather significant controversy in and out of Terranihil.

Boisón first argued that although slavery from a modern perspective is generally regarded as immoral, Sequoyah's legalization of slavery in the modern-day is understandable considering the nation's material conditions. Boisón states that centuries ago slavery did not become illegal globally because people had an "epiphanous realization" that slavery was immoral; rather, the world became industrialized enough so that slaves were no longer necessary for production, and then only after was slavery considered immoral. He says that Sequoyah's underdevelopment and lack of industrialization make the legalization of slavery there not only understandable but "perfectly reasonable".

Boisón then goes on to criticize the international community regarding its actions towards Sequoyah. He states that if the world is against Sequoyah's legalization of slavery, then it should assist Sequoyah in industrializing; if the world is intent on not aiding Sequoyah, then it should not protest the legalization of slavery.

To seemingly save himself from government censorship, Boisón states that such a burden does not lie on the shoulders of a nation such as Terranihil, which is not as technologically advanced and wealthy as many other countries, but rather the burden lies on the wealthiest of nations.

He warns, however, of an Aurebeshian dominated campaign in Sequoyah, believing it would only increase the global power of the commonwealth, and more importantly, would allow Aurebeshia a new stronghold in the southern continent. He sees Sequoyah's cutting of ties with Paleocacher as a positive despite the loss of trade because of the successful rejection of Malgan-Aurebeshian globalist capitalist authority. He believes an industrialization campaign headed by developed and peaceful non-Aurebeshian nations such as Quebecshire, Xusma, and San Carlos Islands and Aurebeshian nations that are less "Malganized" such as New Gandor would be the best for Sequoyah and the world.

Paleocacher wrote:

Politicking Live Stream News Room
Following a very long and trying day with much surprising and troubling news, President Fulkerson has prepared a statement for the press addressing the Xusma situation, Ernest Pyle, and Sequoyah. We go now live to the Presidential Residence in Gardena.
Presidential Residence Briefing Room
Good evening my countrymen. This has been a trying weekend and today has been especially taxing on our country. I will address the events of the day in order. First of all, the subpoenas served on the Xussman embassy today were standard legal procedure for a trial. The document requests were for travel records for G4S employees from the embassy and consulate and the embassy was asked to pass the subpoenas along to two entities, a private bank based in Xusma and G4S itself. Our prosecutors wished to have records of financial transactions and property records from those two entities to help strengthen their pending criminal case in international court. Subpoenas are not optional, however it was poor judgement and manners on behalf of the Departments of Justice and Foreign Affairs to foist them with such short notice onto the Xussman embassy. It was also a violation of diplomatic protocol to ask for the embassy's records as they fall under diplomatic privilege. Additionally, subpoenas issued by a Paleocacherian judge have no legal weight in Xusma so the whole endeavor was pointless to begin with unless the Xussman government wished to compel the two private entities to cooperate. The persons responsible for this embarrassing behavior have been disciplined, and we apologize to the Xussman government for their behavior. On the arrests of the two persons in Liberty City, I want to clarify that the arrests did not take place today, they were merely announced. Legal proceedings had already begun against both men in August for their roles in the Liberty City debacle that resulted from the attempted assassination of Ernest Pyle. The man who holds dual citizenship was simultaneously a non diplomatic part-time maintenance employee for the Xussman consulate and a contractor for the G4S company. He rented the hotel suite the men stayed in, arranged the getaway car and plane, and stole the access keys to the office block where the mercenaries made their getaway through the roof door of. The accountant handled several wire transfers for the G4S company and with that money paid for the car and plane and also paid for several other related items. Both men have taken plea agreements and will be testifying in the upcoming trial. They were merely taken into custody today to start prepping for trial and to ensure their safety now that it is publicly known that they will be witnesses.

As to Pyle, all I can say at this time is that he will be receiving an extradition hearing in the morning. The judge chosen for the case has a well earned reputation for impartiality and he will weigh all the facts in a fair hearing. Pyle's actions though noble in motive perhaps, were still criminal and he is not above the consequences.

On the topic of consequences, we have the developing situation in Sequoyah. Today's discovery is very shocking. My administration had been well aware of the Department of Foreign Affairs initial activities. I approved the shipment of a small amount of radios, jeeps, and aircraft as a gift to Admiral Adama's government. I also approved the appointing of an ambassador and the deployment of a small diplomatic contingent as well as a group of documentary filmmakers who wished to film in the country. The goal of the mission was to try and help the government of Sequoyah develop its country, help oversee the enforcement of the Treaty of Freemont which banned slavery, and eventually to help the newly rejuvenated nation of Sequoyah rejoin the international community once it had been reformed and rehabilitated. However, Foreign Affairs Secretary Burnett seems to have gotten his hand caught in the cookie jar. As it so happens, our country has again been had by crooked politicians and businessmen. In this case Foreign Affairs Secretary Burnett, several of his underlings, Ambassador to Sequoyah Clement Whittle, and the COO of Dupont Mineral Exploration Co. conspired to defraud the governments of Paleocacher and Sequoyah. They associated with the President of the Central Railroad and used bulldozers, other construction equipment, and trained engineers to help him complete construction on the transcontinental line first granting his company unlimited access to the mineral deposits there. Once he had them he promised the conspirators exclusive access to several rich mineral deposits, potentially worth billions of selkies in profits. Even though they checked to see if the railroad was still using slave labor they were too lazy to check properly. All of the people I have named either have been arrested or will be arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit fraud. Secretary Burnett has been sacked and the Department of Foreign Affairs is temporarily under the head of the vice president. We apologize to the Sequoyan people for our complicity in this situation. We will be ceasing all diplomatic relations with Sequoyah effective immediately as per their government's demand. We will evaluate the situation carefully to determine how we may assist the people enslaved by the Central Railroad and will work with the TCN to ensure the enforcement of TCN 019.
That's all I have for you tonight. Any questions?

Sequoyah
In Nueva Vegas, Clement Whittle and his staff boarded a plane to take them back to face the music for their activities. STOL planes were sent to Caprica and to New Samaria to pick up the documentary crews and bring them back to Nellis Air Base for evacuation from the country. In the heartland region, the foreman tried to get his bulldozers, backhoes, and other equipment loaded onto flatbeds from the thrown into chaos Central Railroad so he could get his people to Angeles and out of the country.

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Quebecshire
[nation]Terranihil[/natio]
[nation]Xusma[/natio]

Deseret Rangers stop flatbeds
80 Deseret Rangers, on a contingent guarding the newly completed transcontinental railroad, received orders via radio to halt and detain the Paleocacherians and place guards on the railroad supplies. The foreman and his men are surrounded by the Rangers. They raise their revolvers. The captain speaks.
“Put your hands up and come with us.”

The New Gandorian Response to the TEU letter
The New Gandorian Government believes that the Government of Paleocacher should cooperate with those seeking justice and allow justice to take its course. If Pyle is innocent then he will be found innocent, if he is guilty, he is guilty and justice should be served.

Presidential Residence, Gardena
A telegram is sent to Admiral Adama:
As of this moment, you are standing on the edge of the abyss. Release our people in the next hour and hostilities will not escalate. If we hear from them that they have been released by noon our time, we will call off our forces.
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New Gandor wrote:

The Gandorian Military Airbase outside Iornbarron recives the planes and pilots and begins assisting with mantinence and refueling.

New Gandorian Military command also begins to assemble New Gandorian Naval Taskforce 2 in coordination with the Military of Paleocacher consisting of:

Aircraft Carrier: Antrepryza
Heavy Cruiser: New Union
Light Cruisers: Ogien and Czas
Destroyers: Serce, and Jacek
Medical Ship: Ayzl
Repair Ship: Lepic
As well as Refueling ships to go along with.

This taskforce should be assembled by the morning of the 23rd and will aid the Paleocacherian Navy
Paleocacher

New Union, New Gandor
The FPS Lyla Powell, on a four day port visit after coming in from a patrol in the Almanople Ocean, emergency recalls its crew from liberty and begins fueling procedures. It weighs anchor and departs at 1135 Gardena time, heading east for Angeles at its best speed.
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Paleocacher wrote:

Somewhere in the Sequoyan Wasteland
The foreman of the construction crew frantically sends pre-arranged signal on the emergency satellite phone. This signal is received at the Foreign Affairs Department in Gardena. He and his men willingly surrender. The two escorts surrender their arms and go quietly with the rangers.

Presidential Residence, Gardena; And other related places
President Fulkerson is apprised of the situation by one of the lucky few staffers that hadn't been fired. They don't know exactly what happened, only that they received the signal indicating the railroad crew had been betrayed and seized by elements of the Sequoyan government. President Fulkerson turned to the Defense Secretary McReardon, "Okay Larry, go ahead." Within three hours a task force of sixteen ships centered around the battleship FPS Dobhar-chú and the carrier FPS Leviathan departed from the port of Chicajun and began steaming on the long voyage southeast towards New Gandor where they would stage in the event intervention was needed.

In a more immediate measure, a squadron of fighter planes and three squadrons of support planes were dispatched to the Gandoran air base at Iornbarron on the east coast. They arrived by the late morning of the 21st. The primary flight crews immediately went to get rest after the long flight down the east coast of the continent. Ground crews began to refuel the planes and perform vital maintenance. Reserve pilots were chosen for an immediate mission. Two planes and crews were picked to lead the first mission. The pair of fighters were fitted with the maximum number of external fuel tanks possible and given schedules and coordinates for multiple rendezvouses with air to air refueling tankers on the trips to Sequoyah and back. The fighters took off at 1100 Gardena time.

Telegram wired to Paleocacher

Your citizens will be deported to Gandor and released there. They will be taken by the Sequoyan Steamship Andromeda. Make no further attempts to obtain construction equipment.

Quebecshire

Paleocacher

New Gandor

Paleocacher wrote:

Presidential Residence, Gardena, Paleocacher
The president read the radio message received from Sequoyah. He issued orders to the defense department, "Recall the fleet, keep the air force in New Gandor for 48 hours and have the frigate Lyla Powell meet the Sequoyan steamship to take custody of our people. Tell the fighters en route to Sequoyah to stand by."

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The constitutional republic of zion wrote:

Letter of Invocation submitted to the Terraconserva international court - Cross-Borders trial

Former Paleocachreian Foreign affairs minister Burnett has violated both international and Sequoyan law from Paleocacher. Under his orders, Ambassador Clement Whittle arranged for an agreement with the Central Railroad Company in Sequoyah, a company involved in the illegal Sequoyan slave trade. This violates two integral Sequoyan laws: The Treaty of Freemont (which under the Sequoyan constitution is supreme law, second only to the constitution itself), which makes the slave trade illegal, and Executive Order 66, which makes all economic activities related to the slave trade criminal, with those involved subject to execution and seizure of property. Burnett also negligently violated TCN resolution 019 by helping to arrange the contract with the Central Railroad Co. He violated Sequoyan and international law from Paleocacher, necessitating a cross-borders trial to ensure such flagrant violations of Sequoyan law and international law are punished.

Clement Whittle extradition request
Sequoyah has sent a telegram to Paleocacher and the TCN general assembly requesting that Clement Whittle, former Paleocacherian ambassador to Sequoyah be extradited to Sequoyah. It does not call for a cross-borders trial, as the crimes were committed solely in Sequoyah. He is to be held accountable for violation of the Treaty of Freemont and Executive Order 66, and punished under Sequoyan law.

Quebecshire
Creeperopolis
Paleocacher

Paleocacher wrote:

Presidential Residence, Gardena, Paleocacher
The president read the radio message received from Sequoyah. He issued orders to the defense department, "Recall the fleet, keep the air force in New Gandor for 48 hours and have the frigate Lyla Powell meet Gandoran cruiser New Union and its squadron and then rendezvous with the Sequoyan steamship to take custody of our people. Tell the fighters en route to Sequoyah to turn back."
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The Heavy Cruiser New Union, Light Cruiser Ogien, and Destroyer Serce will rendezvous with the Lyla Powell to meet the steamship, the message is relayed to the fighters to turn back.

Terranihil wrote:

21 September

Professor Zakaria Boisón, the head of the department of history at the University of Guršaun, published a controversial article titled "On the Sequoyah Problem". The professor, who became popular within Terranihil for his promotion of the Jewish Holocaust conspiracy theory, has a long track record of publications that, although do not contradict official Terranilian stances on certain issues, still gather significant controversy in and out of Terranihil.

Boisón first argued that although slavery from a modern perspective is generally regarded as immoral, Sequoyah's legalization of slavery in the modern-day is understandable considering the nation's material conditions. Boisón states that centuries ago slavery did not become illegal globally because people had an "epiphanous realization" that slavery was immoral; rather, the world became industrialized enough so that slaves were no longer necessary for production, and then only after was slavery considered immoral. He says that Sequoyah's underdevelopment and lack of industrialization make the legalization of slavery there not only understandable but "perfectly reasonable".

Boisón then goes on to criticize the international community regarding its actions towards Sequoyah. He states that if the world is against Sequoyah's legalization of slavery, then it should assist Sequoyah in industrializing; if the world is intent on not aiding Sequoyah, then it should not protest the legalization of slavery.

To seemingly save himself from government censorship, Boisón states that such a burden does not lie on the shoulders of a nation such as Terranihil, which is not as technologically advanced and wealthy as many other countries, but rather the burden lies on the wealthiest of nations.

He warns, however, of an Aurebeshian dominated campaign in Sequoyah, believing it would only increase the global power of the commonwealth, and more importantly, would allow Aurebeshia a new stronghold in the southern continent. He sees Sequoyah's cutting of ties with Paleocacher as a positive despite the loss of trade because of the successful rejection of Malgan-Aurebeshian globalist capitalist authority. He believes an industrialization campaign headed by developed and peaceful non-Aurebeshian nations such as Quebecshire, Xusma, and San Carlos Islands and Aurebeshian nations that are less "Malganized" such as New Gandor would be the best for Sequoyah and the world.

University of Mayres - Fort Crowsea, Mayres Commonwealth
September 21

Professor Florentin Jauffret, a relatively unknown history professor at the University of Mayres who teaches Ecros history, saw a news article giving a brief explanation of Professor Boisón's controversial article "On the Sequoyah Problem". After finding the full text of the article and reading it, he immediately began writing a response. After several hours, the response was completed, and Jauffret and some of his colleagues published it. A small segment in a local Fort Crowea-area television news station would feature "On the Sequoyah Problem" and Jauffret's response to it.

In the actual response, Jauffret disagrees with Boisón in that slavery has only recently been considered as immoral. He points to the nations of Quebecshire and Greater Sacramento, both of which have made slavery illegal long before any sort of industrial development took place. Additionally, he disagrees with the idea that slavery was only made illegal after it was no longer 'necessary for production' across the world. Jauffret expressed anger at Boisón's idea that it was "perfectly reasonable", and pointed to the fact that Sequoyah had already begun the process of industrialization, but it was their focus on oppressing and enslaving their indigenous people that halted it.

Jauffret reiterates that Sequoyah and their inane policies were the only thing preventing Sequoyah from industrializing, and because of this the world is not responsible for any continued slavery in Sequoyah nor their industrialization or lack thereof. Jauffret called Boisón's defense of Sequoyan slavery "heinous and deplorable". Jauffret argues that a global intervention in Sequoyah to help modernize the nation would be harmful to all parties involved, as propelling Sequoyah decades forward in terms of technology within the span of a few years would have untold consequences on the Sequoyan nation and its people. He argued that the rapid modernization would lead to, among other things, a large scale anti-government movement that would result in the complete destruction of Sequoyah and widespread poverty and chaos.

However, Jauffret does agree that Aurebeshian influence in the southern continent is a bad thing, and he does agree that Sequoyah's cutting ties with Paleocacher was an overall good thing for the world.

Terranihil

Paleocacher wrote:

Liberty City Federal Courthouse, Department C10

Ernest Pyle strode proudly into the courtroom. The people in the gallery clamored and shouted abuse and encouragement alternately. He sat next to his attorney at the defendant's table.

"Oyez, Oyez. This court is now in session. The people of the sovereign Republic of Terranihil seek the extradition of the Paleocacherian citizen Ernest Pyle on charges of espionage. This hearing will begin with an opening statement from the Terranilian prosecutor, Mr. Vaskicz."
Terranihil

Rami Gurteki, the Terranilian prosecutor, stood to address Ernest Pyle, his defense team, and the judge.

"I am here today to argue for the extradition of Ernest Devino Pyle Jr. to Terranihil to be tried for several felony crimes.

Mr. Pyle entered Terranihil on 27 May 2020, marking the beginning of his private and illegal investigation. Mr. Pyle was not given a press pass or any form of authorization to conduct his investigation. On 29 May, Mr. Pyle illegally piloted a remote-controlled drone over the Soislaan reeducation center and recorded a twenty-five minute long video of the center. After the drone was spotted by security forces and Mr. Pyle was spotted by a patrol, he fled the scene while being pursued. He then managed to escape the country, and Paleocacher News Network published the illegally obtained images and information.

Putting it plainly, Mr. Pyle entered Terranihil, violated its laws, and has faced absolutely no punishment. On the contrary, many in Paleocacher and Aurebeshia celebrate Mr. Pyle's egregious actions. The illegally obtained information was further used in an attempt to investigate Terranihil in TCN Resolution 024. This is a blatant violation of Terranilian sovereignty that has gone unpunished.

Terranihil has stood trial before the world twice now. It is time Pyle stood trial.

The felony crimes Pyle is accused of are trespassing on a high-security military facility, evading arrest by vehicle, and espionage. The specific espionage codes Pyle is accused of violating are gathering, transmitting or losing defense information; use of aircraft for photographing defense installations; and publication or sale of photographs of defense installations.

I would like to first offer Pyle, on behalf of the Terranilian prosecution, a generous plea deal:

Pyle pleas guilty to all charges levied against him,
Pyle pays ₡250,000 (₹5,473,000) to the Terranilian government as restitution,
Pyle publically apologizes to Terranihil for breaking its laws,
Paleocacher News Network apologizes and retracts its allegations regarding Malgan mistreatment against the Terranilian government,
Pyle is imprisoned for 25 years in Paleocacher.

If the defense refuses these terms, Pyle risks extradition and long imprisonment in a Terranilian prison cell. If he accepts, the government of Terranihil and its people will consider justice served."