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The Hole To Hide In contains 100 nations, the 301st most in the world.

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NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Imperial Military State of Novaya EquestriaInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Viva la Vida!”
2.The Foresaken Lands of SoviestanFather Knows Best State“Not even God can save you”
3.The Federation of Federation of AfricaInoffensive Centrist Democracy“We stand together.”
4.The Queendom of HeckingtonPsychotic Dictatorship“Might Makes Right”
5.The Armed Republic of Central nappylLiberal Democratic Socialists“Peace and Justice”
6.The Provisional Administration of KynthesDemocratic Socialists“Spring is ever glorious.”
7.The Anarchan Free Territories of Anarchan Free TerritoriesInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Vera Libertas, Mother Anarcha loves her children”
8.The United Continents of PangaeaIron Fist Consumerists“Drifting away”
9.The Butterfly of Aglais ioIron Fist Consumerists“Aglais io”
10.The Kingdom of LaishlandCorrupt Dictatorship“You may not have rights ,but at least you're rich!”
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Brennus wrote:

RP: Night Operation
Expedition into Dze Tribes
Through Vesvaria upon discussion with Solingarch
JAKATA and a special group from Brennus performed rapidly delivery into Vesvaria through Solingarchi airspace via Spaceplane. The trip was not wasted and some items were deployed into orbit, and Armored AVs were dispatched in flight specially equipped with sensor equipment and sensor drones, their destination was the glassy crater site within Dze to gather samples, conduct an in-depth survey. This was done at night all equipped with special nods for seeing evidence of a detonation and equipped with CBRN gear.
Searching for:
- Neutron Radiation
- General Fallout
- Nuclear Isomer Remnants
- Evidence of Anti-Matter Catalysis
- Helium Isotopes
And a few other things. They found nothing of note which was significantly worse than finding something, the report was classified to the highest degree and sent directly to the desk of the highest echelons of the IIA and MJ-12. The AVs left once the sun came up to rendezvous with the nearest carrier group.

THTHI Event Nation

RP Colonial Conflicts
Since the initial landings on the island chain, now named New Livonia by the government in Prussia, conflicts with the local inhabitants of the second island have proven to be a real thorn in the side of the occupiers. Though outgunned to an extreme degree, the ferocious resistance to being subjugated has not relented. Additional troops from the Naacal occupation as well as the homeland would be called in to finally establish control in the region, however it is expected that the tribes inhabiting the island will likely fight to the bitter end. As with Naacal, no footage is to be taken, no one must know what we have done here... In Naacal, the city of Yunali would begin to see Valkist propaganda everywhere as Baltocarpathia leans heavily on their anti-communist biases, the efforts to win over the population currently under their control would be a strategic move. Yunali was a very wealthy city, and it was imperative to the administration that they see the true fruits of the Valkist Revolution

RP: August - Project Sundial
Brennus for your eyes only.
Dead Hand fail-deadly final contingency [Classified]
Stationary nuclear doomsday weapon. An extraordinary large layed Thermonuclear weapon. The final bomb.
- 2,000t Mass
- [Classified] Megatons
Apocalyptic nuclear winter and total contamination. The final weapon in the dead hand array. The existence is speculative, but one thing is for certain the total-war state has been arming as rapidly as possible for the final meeting. The largest conceivable fusion bomb within current understanding. Similar in design to Doomsday orion, but within the project timeframe making the pulse propulsion weapon is impossible so construction will be done locally and prepared for final approach. A way of going out on our own terms should it come to that. It's location is kept as the greatest state secret only the President of Brennus would know of its location and the IIA of its existence only, so the Technate had someone that could turn the lights out.

This is the final implementation to the dead hand which encompasses a wide arrangement of sensors, ICBMs and other critical components. It is a subsection of the overarching Nuclear Program and drafted by teams seperate from the Casaba Howitzer / SNAK / NEFP teams. Focus is further shifting to the final approach planning window examples being OSDI, OPA, EKV ( Brilliant Pebble & Brilliant Eyes ) and general Interception.

ASI Apotheosis: Taming Fire
The Technate Artificial Super Intelligence Taikyoku will be given unrestrained self improvement prerogatives to improve and provide better solutions, faster designs and access to Auto-Fab and robotic implements/minions. This includes a direct access to the internet and the ability to utilize the processing power of Technate devices like a widespread problem solving botnet. The machine may rewrite and copy it's program as nessecary, it was designed to solve problems and has helped design weapons, it is time to take the gloves off and solve an even bigger problem than previously thought. Brennian scientists were also given keys to query the machine as they fit, an allied mastercomputer.

    What Will Be Le—ingdom of Ardenarai


    ???


    2031


Contingency Plan : The World Succumbing To Snow
THTHI Event Nation

Summer, as brief it may be, never came this year.

The light still shines, the sun yet ablaze in the clear azure skies. Ardenarai is one of the few polar nations to be in the epicenter of the Aurora Anomalus, a dazzling ecological phenomenon that had begun manifesting since months ago. Though, to the enigmatic Dark Moon Side Agency, it was more than it seems at the surface.

Detections of mystery perverting the natural landscape were going off-charts in DSMA branches nationwide. Mystery is the quality of anomaly, strangeness not belonging to the realm of man (of which includes magic). Readings like these can only mean one thing: an intrusion on the scale of the Year Without Stars is immediate. Cxurun’s incursion brought a resurgence of Hellpit activity, along with the formation of Hellpit “Matanya” nearby the ruined city of Doraclea.

Another event of this scale… or greater.. will bring–

The “World Succumbing To Snow” is a contingency plan devised by DSMA to prepare for the total breakdown of reality. Policy measures to be adopted by the government have been forwarded as such:

  • Intensifiying control and segregation of the slave populace to prevent a revolt in the event of communications breakdown; included is the deployment of the Royal Inquisition across the Sacred Kingdom despite concerns of their numbers being spread thin.

  • Closure of west-bound sea routes in-consideration for the raised activity of Hellpit “Wishing Well”, their aberrations known to perform attacks on vessels crossing their territories.

  • To find a way to counteract an enemy on the scale of Cxurun, and perhaps bring a final end to ███ ███ ██ ███ █████.

Observations have been made on the effects of the Aurora Anomalus on the subjects of the Sacred Kingdom. Everyone is so far happy, though there are cases of people experiencing hysteria. The madness does not affect those who are true to the king’s vision. Everything is so far under control.
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With connections made to the VU and SDC, with thanks to the recent diplomatic developments, there has been news of magic-using nations worldwide experiencing nonsensical visions, of a being beyond the skies, dubbed the Thaumological Pandemonium. Said to be connected to the Aurora Anomalus, it is speculated by DSMA to be a mindcurse, aberrations capable of performing its quality upon being perceived. “Whatever it is”, the Ardenaraian crown reassures that it is by all means unaffected. “For the world around us is riddled with wounds, marred by war and disease, only the purest have the means to survive a broken world.”
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  • People suspected to be under the Thaumological Pandemonium are to be taken care of, to prevent society from collapsing on itself.

Realization : The Atomic Theory
Neuerstaat

Logic as it existed in the world beyond did not exist. The realms of myth operated on a bunch of fundamental laws alien to ours, an example would be the blatant existence of gods, sometimes there would too be wonderlands that operate on concepts of song and love, basing off their entire societies around abstract values considered nonsensical.

Sciences were not so-easily transferable, and so Ardenarai had to start from the scratch, relearning the concept of “Fire”, and how it easily summons winds capable of raising heavy machinery. Soon, they also discovered a way to channel mechanical power into the generation of “mana”, a resource once abundant in the land of Alfheim, through using the embers of their own remaining mystery. While it was but a fading shadow of what they were, it was more than enough… to the people robbed of their own beings.

Fast-forward to the present day, Ardenarai is on the road to emulating the past’s glory. The Aldrnalfar are hopeful ever since the late king Augier’s reign, that the Sacred Kingdom reaffirms its dream of once more reaching the stars.

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A request has been forwarded to the consulate of Neuerstaat and SDC. Ardenarai is to exercise the promise of information sharing granted by them. There would be a student-exchange program for the purposes of learning sciences, but the true intent is that state-artificers be mentored by the aforementioned organization/nation(s) on physics.

And to be more specific, they wish to learn nuclear physics. Should their request be granted, Ardenarai too desires to contract companies for the construction of both power plants . . . and a weapon to be fielded against the Aurora Anomalus… A theory by DSMA states that the detonation of a high-yield nuclear bomb in the atmosphere, if Ardenarai has the means to make one, would be able to disrupt the signals in a large area that are believed to be the cause of the Thaumological Pandemonium.

Baltocarpathia wrote:

RP: Colonial Affairs

Yunali Situation
The effects of propaganda weren't likely as extravagant as the Baltocarpathians had hoped preaching to the choir in a sense as many of them here already hated and blammed the leftists for this situation they found themselves in. The city itself was like a Capitalist playground and remarkably rebounding from the previous turmoil the outside areas where a stark contrast to this. Most of the locals didn't like the colonials here and were sometimes threatening most all of them were armed at this point.

A stream of insubstantial alien, sentient colour
Recovering the Heart of a lost civilization was no easy task and with extremely limited resources at their disposal it was to remain sunken amongst the archipelago for the foreseeable future.

The mission was conducted with a Bathyscaphe procured through unknown means likely private interest. Expedition groups had inevitably obtained teal/turquoise-colored crystal pendants from the object granting some abilities from the chromiant object of extraterrestrial Origin it's description as a crystal was in many ways a misnomer although superficially similar it has shown the ability to reintegrate into the larger whole a property clearly impossible. But the most critical development was the object activating again after a long term of dormancy now thriving on the collective emotions of its people.

With the isles highly destroyed it started a terraforming project creating peculiarities in the plant life, fauna, and emergence of stranger creatures easily noticable by the colonial forces such as Baltocarpathia & Milenciano the locals had no clue and didn't particularly care about weird fish as they were food all the same. But for those versed in esotericism it was a nod to the utmost ancient origins.

T'húẖiz Jűzim
Heavenly fall [mid 2030]

THTHI Event Nation wrote:RP Event Chain
An evident curiosity

As the Thaumological Pandemonium takes place, a particular event would take place in the skies above the Dze Confederation. Sensors pointed skywards, already experiencing an unusual sort of interference, would experience a ‘blinding anomaly’ in the night hours of 28 June 2030. Sensors particularly towards the North Pole, experiencing effects of the ‘Data Screams’, would record a massive spike of gamma radiation coinciding with a spike in the intensity of the Aurora Anomalous over the Northern Hemisphere. Those very same sensors would also record ‘absences’ in radiation in the skies, which simply didn’t add up considering the sheer spike in gamma in the upper atmosphere.
This radiation anomaly would spike towards 11pm as mass radiation interference was noted throughout all sensors in the region, coinciding with massive aurora outbreak in the area. Radar in the area would note an anomaly as well; through the noise from the Data Screams and the EM interference, a radar track would just [appear] in the upper atmosphere. It would remain for about thirty seconds, where the track remained perfectly stationary at the heart of the radiation anomaly. Radar track would be lost and the radiation anomaly would fade shortly therafter, but eyewitnesses in the area would report a fireball streaking over Atraland and the Vesvarian Territories before finally coming down somewhere in the Iktah Territories (along the border with Vesvaria)… and then exploding in middair.
Seismic sensors across the continent would note the explosion with a yield between 5 and 9 megatons of TNT equivalent - the area impacted would be found with trees and forests outright incinerated, and the surrounding land turned to a… glass? Furthermore, anyone who attempted to use cameras in the area would find their pictures rendered outright undecipherable due to an intense visual snow effect, and any use of radiometers would return that same weird “absence” of radiation…
It was absolutely worth investigating this further. Furthermore, the nature of the event made it impossible that information would be contained for long.

As the forests in the south of the Thu'ur Kingdom were lit ablaze and glass covered the earth where once mighty spears of nature stood, the reclusive human realm would find itself the target of not one, but two mysterious expeditions from the south-west according to locals in the vicinity, one by a metal people of many legs, the other by shadowy people who only left their footsteps as a signal of their presence... too big to be of human origin. The T'húmir would be informed of several witnesses to the fall of the strange star and of the aftermath of its fiery doom, and he decided that the site would be no more to anyone, be they outsiders or their own kind. Several thousand troops would be stationed within 10km of the site in the densely forested hills with a simple order: Kill anything that gets close to it again.

RP: Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi
Classified Brennus for your eyes only. And subsequent data except when specified otherwise.
Late to the party of developments is the Bomb-Pumped laser, its purpose was large scale intra-orbital intercepts rather than shooting the asteroid directly due to most of its energy would be wasted vaporizing superficial surface material. However with the alternate plan in motion it was worth an attempt. Several of the extremely heavy devices would be launched into orbit for testing and later possibly being used.

1MT Nuclear Bomb Pumped X-ray laser
Nuclear Device + Gain Medium: 6,900kg
Gain medium geometry: 5m x 0.06mm
Nuclear-optical Efficiency: 2.5%
Beam Energy: 104.6 TJ
Pulse Duration: 1 nanosecond
Divergence: 20 microns
Example Range: 1,000km x 20m spot size - 333GJ/m2
Device can be tuned before detonation for a wider area of effect such is adjusting individual rods, figure is maximum focus at 1,000km. Theoretically the design is capable of Submarine launch when needed, whether this is to be implemented is unknown.

Eureka 2
Laser Developed Atmospheric Lens (LDALs) utilizing the Kerr Effect and the atmosphere to act as a lensing medium increasing range by tens of thousands of kilometers. The OPA will receive an update to allow Kerr Effect Atmospheric Lensing expanding the final intercept range exponentially.

OPA 400nm Final Solution
Finalizing the primary design: Towed Optical Phased Array
This allows the submarines to fire while submerged and maximize output whilst still retaining SLBM payload capabilities. A single submarine can keep backups or tow large numbers of the devices and if a device is damaged it can still maintain fire. Tactics using towed lens might involve dragging along a fleet of lenses and rotating them to the surface and back. Longer fibre optic cables gives the submarine more freedom to move, while a mix of decoys and intermittent and random firing patterns reduces the disadvantages of the design.

Notes on OSDI Solutions
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle from ground based next generation interceptor (multi-stage) and small 'battle stations' (Brilliant Pebble) with supporting sensory equipment (Brilliant Eyes)

ESP
For: THTHI Event Nation
The samples recovered from Dze including the glass would be distributed to various laboratories for a more in-depth discovery beyond what the field equipment could ascertain. Even Pseudoscience researchers such as the Psionic (Espers/Psionics) operatives from Project Stargate this also included those that did summons from the book of Cxurun and even those with adept clairvoyancy. This is to supplement all manner of information gathering tools applied including analysis done by whatever Artificial General Intelligence was available and trained. During the time in the region the aurora was also extensively graft, recorded and other remote sensor equipment the belief was that it was a time of remote scanning implement used by them which featured charged particles in its operation, but these assumptions are to be rigorously tested like the samples.

RP A New Solution
The nuclear strikes of Otyken had failed, the asteroid? has continued in its course towards Kalrania at a rapid pace. A new strategy was adopted shortly after this, seeking to utilize the combined efforts of the scientific and arcane arts to remove the problem all together. Seeking to partner with close ally Greater Avaria, baltocarpathia would initiate a new project, codenamed: Project Quicksilver. The fullness of the project is yet to be determined, but the plan so far is as follows: To create an extremely complex and powerful ritual circle empowered by several dozen archmages who will willingly sacrifice themselves as well as 8 virgins who will be consumed by the weave in the casting. The spell will begin with a thermonuclear warhead attached to a spacefaring ballistic missile. Onboard will be a prototype mythlar linked to the ritual circle back on the ground. When the bomb detonates, the energy will be redirected into the the circle, channeled through the mages, who will die in the process, their souls consumed by the energy. The burning of their souls will fully activate the spell circle, sending the finished arcane power stream through the mythlar and a banishment spell will envelope the asteroid and send it to another realm, or atleast, somehwere far from here

||RP: State Of Emergency||

A thousand nukes rushed towards the asteroid, yet not a single one landed.
Through the resulting static and noise and interference, our most magically enhanced telescope was barely able to spot a foreign object, shimmering behind? inside? the asteroid, before self combusting its flux arrays.

As of now, this information has been sealed within the higher echelon of Avarian government and scientists.

So, for now, all the public knows is that an asteroid is heading towards Kalrania.
And so, the government lays out some plans and visits to combat the.. object.

--> Baltocarpathia.

A few mages and scientists have been exchanged between the nations, with the main goal being to primarily focus on our own country's magic first, before combining the two magic systems to hopefully result in a weapon that is capable of taking down this celestial threat.

The scientists will be collaborating on the space side of things, hoping to formulate a launch device to deliver all this payload to the asteroid.

--> Torimia.

The Maharendra, the mage who is in the forefront of rune and sigil technology of Avarian magic had requested a visit and consequently on the way to learn more about the magic system in Il-Saakan. The hope is to improve Avaria's own rune and sigil technology to be able to accommodate and enhance negative flux to the extreme.

-->Solingarch.

News and sightings of the event over Iktah reaches the ears of Avarian scientist working on the asteroid issue. A formal letter would be issued to the crown of Solingarch for permission to retrieve samples around the area and investigate the strange occurrence. This might be the information that might propel Avarian counter-magic against the 'Asteroid' to the next level.

--> Space Probe Launch.
Avaria's most advanced space probe yet. (Still not that advanced). Would be launched on July 2030, with hopes of reaching Drom and getting a better look at it, although hopes of doing so are low right now.
A enhancement array or two has been imbued onto the probe's instruments and engine to compensate for the lack of deep space technology.

||RP: Drawing the wrath of the god of death.||
(Secret.)

Millennia ago. In the Nakshatra-Kal (Age of the stars), 28,562 A.C, a ritual, a process, a spell, was discovered, that would shatter the limits of Avarian magic and rise far beyond it, eventually drawing the attention of the god of death to stop the ritual and to command it to never happen again.

Atleast, that's what the myths say, the history books detail how the event/spell affected the surrounding are and the magic books detail how to do the ritual to unleash this event.
However, the recipe, seemed... to not work?
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It turns out that the balance of flux in the world has shifted slightly, and the precise calculation and research has been voided, rendering this version of the spell unusable.

The Chakravarthy himself has gathered a team of magic specialists, ranging from the mage in charge of the academy for the gifted ones, to prospecting candidates and young minds, this is one trick up Avaria's sleeve, which for everyone's sake, should either work, or advance their understanding of the asteroid enough for other things to work.

The spell in question? Kha-Gala. The Flux Bomb.
When positive and negative flux are made to interact in a unnatural environment, with different characteristic.. the result is explosive.. to say the least.

RP: Mental Health

Candain wrote:RP: Echos of a Dream

The sprites have been having trouble sleeping as of late with the collective agreement of strange visions being granted to them. This seems to have effected the Greater Sprites the most with the imbued having trouble aswell. Those who practice Rift Magic have started to fall into madness while those that use Sorcery are doing their best to keep these invading images out of their minds. Rumors have also been spreading that Gisѐlle Celeste has these deep visions of otherworldly dreams along with her normal communion with Celestial Celosia whispering demands. Some of the heavies hit communities would be that of Glóavið and Gullblatt.

RP: Mental Health

After much meditation in communal with her goddess Gisѐlle Celeste has been gifted a boon. Knowledge on how to create a mental shield for protecting oneself against these ever increasing nightmare visions. This has been taught to the Celeste inner circle to offer this sorcery as a blessing to followers of the faith. It's been described by those under the blessings of Celestial that their Anima's flow lines within their spirit feels fuzzy such as a thin lining has been cast over their thoughts. Anyone can be given this blessing by the one of the leaders within the Celeste Cathedral.

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