Difference between revisions of "Midlonian Uranium War"
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| − | Back in the very young days of the Island’s history, a seam of U- | + | Back in the very young days of the Island’s history, a seam of U-238 was found in a prospecting mission to the Snowdon range in the very centre of the nation. |
Mining, and selling of the unriched material was soon placed as “for sale” on the Inter-national Market as soon as possible. | Mining, and selling of the unriched material was soon placed as “for sale” on the Inter-national Market as soon as possible. | ||
After around one week of slow sales, the Nations of Archaic-Slang Words and The Oppressor, alarmed by the young state’s obvious lack of morals in its method of raising hard currency, delivered an ultimatum. | After around one week of slow sales, the Nations of Archaic-Slang Words and The Oppressor, alarmed by the young state’s obvious lack of morals in its method of raising hard currency, delivered an ultimatum. | ||
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In its entire history, this is the only time the Greater Empire has ever come under attack on the home soil, any other time the nation has been on the offensive, or off of its own coast, in international waters. | In its entire history, this is the only time the Greater Empire has ever come under attack on the home soil, any other time the nation has been on the offensive, or off of its own coast, in international waters. | ||
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== Out of Character note, from Midlonia. == | == Out of Character note, from Midlonia. == | ||
Revision as of 16:09, 4 March 2005
The In-character History.
Back in the very young days of the Island’s history, a seam of U-238 was found in a prospecting mission to the Snowdon range in the very centre of the nation. Mining, and selling of the unriched material was soon placed as “for sale” on the Inter-national Market as soon as possible. After around one week of slow sales, the Nations of Archaic-Slang Words and The Oppressor, alarmed by the young state’s obvious lack of morals in its method of raising hard currency, delivered an ultimatum.
Stop the selling of Uranium, or we shall be forced to act, and shut the operations down by any means possible.
Diplomacy was obviously not a strong point, nor a high priority on the minds of these two nations. After a response that can be summed up as “no” the Empire’s Archive shows that a few days later, a fleet of some forty war ships had arrived, with the tiny Empire’s entire naval forces consisting of just six battleships, fourteen destroyers and a single aircraft carrier, things did not look rosy.
After the brief naval battle, and subsequent scuttling of the Redemption as well as the prolonged bombardment of the port-city, the Empire finally sued for peace and promised not to continue its mining operations, as long as the two nations involved did not continue their attack.
The nations agreed, and the subsequent withdrawal of naval forces duly followed.
Nine months later, mining operations in the Snowdon Mountains started again.
Neither Archaic Slang Words, nor The Oppressor, nor any nation in the International community stepped forward to stop the mining operations.
In its entire history, this is the only time the Greater Empire has ever come under attack on the home soil, any other time the nation has been on the offensive, or off of its own coast, in international waters.
Out of Character note, from Midlonia.
Aaaah, the Uranium War, my first “serious” RP, it was rather nice, no arguing, a very nice introduction to the Nationstates World, the thread it belonged to has now long since gone, as it was back in the days of the 3 month limit. In all I found it good fun, and it slowly helped to mold the character of the Nation I now run.
