I'm rettly kinda miffed that they can take down jets with their enhanced mages. The enhancements are already to the point where they don't even kill anymore? At this rate, they will be a standard booster package in another 10 years.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"Why are you so concerned about us?"
"For your safety."
...
"Your majesty," I begin, "What is happening?"
The Emperor had a sour look on his face, "The military has turned against me. They took control of all of the radio broadcast stations. My entire cabinet had been arrested or gone into hiding."
Feels really exccessively coincedental. I figured that Tanya might be doing a meeting with the Emperor and then this would all happen. Why did he just show up where Tanya was?
I'm also a little confused as to who this group of soldiers is fighting for at the time. Who told them to get Tanya?
Also, why the hell would anyone be doing a coup when Tanya is in the area? If they knew enough to intercept her, they should have known she was there before this whole thing started.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
The Germanian government being bent on building as many city busting weapons as possible. And the Unified States returning back to their splendid isolation."
Even if he wants to build them, he needs the power plants to do so. Announcing that you want to build a lot would only backfire at this point, you should be keeping quiet about how many you have, and how fast they can be built. This blustering is not helpful. I'm getting the impression that the President is looking into other ways of getting nukes faster. Which would just be a colossal waste of money.
On another note, there was so much excitement for the announcement of nuclear weapons, how come we never got an official announcement and reaction section? How was it announced that they had weapons? Did they release video of previous tests, or do a live demonstration?
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Overseas, the CSR ceased their artillery bombardment of Kinmen and Matsu Islands and publicly condemned the coup.
Seems like they figured out that they were pushing things too far. Thank goodness that Tanya is as adept at messing up the plans of the Aki rebellion as she is messing up the plans of the CRS.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Right after the Emperor's speech, the coup against him quickly collapsed when much of the military, police force and the populace revolted against the coup leaders, who had all opted to commit suicide rather than face the mobs.
Didn't expect it to end so fast. That was a really quick collapse.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"The CSR asked to not have any nuclear weapons stationed in the Formosa Republic." The Emperor smiled a bit. "I suppose I could have my ambassador ask them to not share their mass destruction weapon with their allies."
Unfortunately, the Emperor doesn't really have any room to negotiate here. Formosa is a free country and Germania has a nuke obsessed president.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
Yea. Best just to make some bases for Aki and promise to protect them under the Germania nuclear envelope, I guess. Time to formalize the military alliance Germania has into a new NATO. Attack one one is an attack on all, and nuclear missles will be used if attacked. Any country that wants to join, can.
ICBMs are probably being rushed at this point, so they will be done within the next 1-3 years. After that, Aki and South Bharat will be a perfectly fine distance to house nukes.
Embrace_goto_statements said:
"More than that." The Emperor shook his head. "They showed footage of their biological weapons tests on prisoners, livestock and crops. And a ground launch of a rocket that was larger than the one they had used to shoot at our photoreconnisance jet. They insisted that the people who suggested biological weapons development only got official approval after the Germanian President went public with the nuclear weapons."
I know that there was some mention that this was a possibility, however, I thought this was the sane, and competent, communist government. Threatening to release biological weapons on the world? That's is an unprecidented level of insanity. That's something so self defeating that we have NEVER done that. No country has ever gone with the idea of using biological weapons as a replacement deterent for not having nukes. Take the damn loss, CSR, and keep your heads down until you can build your own nukes. You think this can protect you? Tanya put a safe guard of needing 3 people to allow the use of nukes. Talking about unleashing bio weapons is more likely to cause them to agree to a massive preemptive strike than to get them to back down.
How good could their biological weapons even be? They are underdeveloped, technology speaking, and this is the freaking 50s. You're telling me they have created multiple super viruses to kill people, livestock, and also CROPS? I've never heard of a biological weapons designed to wipe out crops before. You know you have to design a virus for each one, right? I guess the three main ones would be cows, pigs, and chickens. Then you need seperate viruses for the main western staples, wheat, corn, and potatoes. It hasn't been 5 years since Tanya announced to the world that nuclear weapons were even POSSIBLE. Just how broken are you making the CSR's biological division? Have they even taken proper precautions to make sure there are no virus leaks with this breakneck bio program? This is a disaster waiting to happen.
I think this really needs to be played up more. Tanya didn't even suggest starting a World Health Organization as a response for this. There is no way that isn't happening now. A mad country just said that they are willing to destroy the world if they get bombed with nukes. As far as anyone knows, nukes will not destroy the world. Germania doesn't even have that many of them. Have they even created hydrogen bombs yet?
