Sunderland (Stevid)

Breif History of Sunderland

Sunderland started her life as a small town in the late 1920’s. Founded by Gregson Cray, Sunderland was just an ordinary coastal town with no real purpose in Stevid other than its natural resources to keep it alive. However in 1932, Sunderland was already a sprawling town and was declared a city by the puppet monarch of the time, it was then that the British Empire realised its usefulness in naval terms and established a large port in the city- from there Sunderland became one of the most import real estates in Stevid. After the collapse of the Empire, Stevid’s government had time to shape and mould their country into an individual state. Sunderland was granted increase province space to build more houses on the outskirts and the naval/commercial port was granted a fifty acre expansion project one every year until 1982 when the contract was to be renewed. This meant Sunderland was a city that was constantly expanding beyond belief. Without funding from the British Empire, money came short but through the economic troubles and worries, the country pulled through. Sunderland remained a huge city- only dwarfed by Stevid Capita.

Now in this modern day in age, Sunderland is an immensely massive city. The Sunderland Cathedral stands proud in the exact centre of the city and the port has expanded five hundred acres in the past five years and is still expanding at a near astronomical rate. The ship building industries have long since expanded to huge proportions and pump out more naval vessels and commercial craft then ever before with even bigger designs. The out skirts of the city are massive blocks of two story high houses (family sized) and keep the tranquil peace and quiet of nature at it’s best. These housing estates continue to grow and to thrive in Sunderland’s ongoing history.

Battle of Sunderland Police Station

The Battle of the main police precinct is a scar in Sunderland’s history book. The battle took place during the Religious Crisis in Stevid when the radical government sent out their policy of a “clean state” and banished and forcibly removed, all religions apart from Catholicism, Judaism, Orthodox and any other along the lines of the three mentioned. This inevitably lend to violent outbreaks among some citizens being told to move. The battle of the precinct took place before the expulsion of religions was finally completed, a massive group of three hundred rebels belonging the mainly the Islamic faith but also to many different faiths (including those that weren’t told to leave) gathered to together with a small collection of weaponry, ranging from planks of wood to RPG’s. The attack began in the early hours of the morning while people were just waking up to a new early morning Monday.

The rebels were attacking under the cause that religious leaders of the Islamic faith were being held in the prison. The rebels were attempting to free them in a jailbreak mission. The precinct is a small fortress, thick walls of concrete lined with two-inch thick armour titanium metal wall with one gate house defended by two pillboxes and two guard towers. The pillboxes and patrolling officers all used live ammunition and were told to use it well. The rebels attacked and killed all but one of the patrol officers with snipers before the alarm was raised. Before long the rebels were charging towards the station wall. The RPG destroyed one pillbox and the other was damaged beyond repair. Thirty officers lined the ramparts of the fortress firing into the horde of rebels killing nearly eighty every ten minutes. The RPG fired into the gatehouse chain-link fence and easily blew it apart. Now that the wall was breached, the rebels crowed through the gaping opening in the wall, killing and being killed en mass before the last RPG rocket blew a hole on the third floor were the Islamic leaders were held. It wasn’t long before the rebels had regained their leaders and were about to leave the field before the police counter attacked. The riot police with pistols, batons and bullet proof, transparent shields charged forward in droves and attack the rebels in close hand-to-hand combat. The police force from a neighbouring precinct sent another squad of riot police and armed response in and armoured APC in an attempt to plug the hole in the wall and prevent the rebels from escaping. When they arrived the Islamic priests were nowhere to be seen and so many have assumed they were killed in the confusion or had escaped the riot.

By now the rebels had begun their retreat, their mass exodus out of the precinct courtyard overwhelmed the APC out side but now there were civilians approaching the streets. The rebels horror, the police a sent squad cars to the ends of each street leading the main roads near to the precinct, the road block were manned by armed police and ordinary officers preventing civilians getting in and rebels getting out. Not only were they trapped by another APC had arrived armed with water cannons and riot suppression guns. The rebels reluctantly surrendered to the local police force.

In total, one thousand, three hundred and twenty-two rebels took apart in the engagement of which thirty-six survived. The police sent four hundred officers from the attacked precinct into the battle of which twenty-four survived. Three other police stations sent officers which together total fifty-three; six of those were killed when the first police APC arrived on the scene.

It was a bloody Monday morning in Sunderland’s history and one that the local population and police force never what to remember.

Port Sunderland

Port Sunderland, as it stands today, is the second largest port in Stevid (The First Being the Docklands Harbour). It’s history is sketchy at best since it was first erected before the Second World War- since then it has been an enormous source of employment and profits. Its main industry is shipbuilding and the factories stretch right up the River Clyde. Sunderland in Stevid has (Like it’s past English counterpart in Britain) a long, dedicated and honoured history of shipbuilding and remains to be a prime source for building military ships and civilian and commercial vessels. It was honoured to be the place where the second Catholic Super Dreadnought was to be built, the HMS Orthodox. It also is the leading port contractor to build Stevid Ferries Incorporation ships ranging from small ferries to huge oversized cruise liners. With such a responsibility, Sunderland Port needs to keep it’s reputation well kwon enough not to be closed down, that’s why the workforce numbers in hundreds of thousands as men work themselves ragged to produce the results of shipbuilding that the contractors asked for. Sunderland Port Shipbuilders rarely miss a deadline; in fact, the shipyards produced the HMS Orthodox faster than they did the Type-88 Cruiser. When demand is high, they can produce results faster than any other builders yard in the country and could rival those in the world on occasions.

The port is always busy with mainly commercial activity. Everyday, national cruise liners, foreign cruise liners, ferries, trawlers, civilian yachts, all come through into Sunderland Harbour. Every now and again a naval vessel will appear in the port but liners and tankers are all too common in Sunderland just to ignore completely. Stevid Ferries Incorporation and SC Cruises are the most common corporations that operate in Sunderland’s massive harbour- SC’s huge cruise liners make occasional appearances in this great city, and everyday, Stevid Ferries Inc. are ferrying people to nearby nations or around the Stevid Isles.

HMNS Sunderland

Her/His Majesties Naval Base Sunderland is a strategically important one. It’s massive harbour has enough room to hold over six hundred vessels in one day. Getting them out is always slightly difficult so if the harbour master can avoid it, he won’t let that many ships enter and leave the harbour at that one time.

It remains to be seen whether the port can take that much firepower in one place, however it remains a staging point for small task forces and is still used today’s as the major standing point for most small to large scale task forces and Home Defence Fleets on the East Coast of the country. The naval base is a massive complex. It has enough dormitories to accommodate well over 30,000 personal in one night and contains recreational facilities including thirty sports complexes and forty-two multi-gyms. There is also a two hundred by one hundred and fifty foot parade ground court yard used for ceremonies and parade drills. Apart from the shear size of the complex it operates rather the same, as any other naval base would do in Stevid.

Sunderland also boasts being one of the few cities in Sunderland that have a class of aircraft carriers named after it. The Sunderland Class Carriers is a medium sized vessel that is only slightly larger than the American “Enterprise” class and can hold almost three times as many aircraft. Having the carrier named after it, it was only logical for the first one built to be stationed at Sunderland- The HMS Sunderland continues to serve around the world on peace keeping duties in trouble spot areas around the world, when ever it returns to port, it is usually to it’s home port.

HMNB Sunderland.

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