A Game of Historical Fiction: 194964

[Dreadnought]

 British Columbia

We finally take BC and our troops rejoice in the new national anthem: A LumberJack Song (of British Columbia)

 

[Robinette]

Divided Egypt marks third anniversary of uprising

The entire world watches anxiously over what may be next for a divided Egypt as Thousands of Egyptians begin trickling into Tahrir Square on Saturday morning to mark the third anniversary of the Arab Spring revolt that has violently split the country.

Saturday's festivities unfolded amid ever tighted security under the threat of street-level riots and fresh terror attacks. Helicopters circled overhead as security personnel frisked revelers filing into the iconic protest center in downtown Cairo where a sound stage had been erected Friday evening.

Celebrations were already marred by a small explosion in front of a police training center early on Saturday morning in the very dense Cairo neighborhood of Hous-Bin Pharteen, according to Egyptian state media. No casualties were reported from the attack, but many complained of severe breathing difficulties.

Security forces are preparing for more violence on Saturday. The anniversary comes one day after six people were killed in bomb attacks across Cairo, one of them a rare truck bombing of the heavily defended headquarters of the Cardinal's security services, authorities said. An Al Bado-Qaeda inspired group based in the Sinai Peninsula claimed responsibility for the suicide attack.

Twelve people, mostly civilians, were also killed in clashes throughout the country between Cardinal police and supporters of Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, who was ousted in a military coup.

The bombings come amid a campaign of insurgent attacks that began with Mr. Morsi's removal by the Cardinal military regime. They also come a day before the anniversary of the start of the popular revolt that toppled Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years.

Egyptians were girding for more violence on Saturday, when millions of people are expected to gather throughout the country, many to celebrate the revolution, others to mourn it.

U.N. Security Council urges end to violence in Egypt

"The view of council members is that it is important to end violence in Egypt and that the parties exercise maximum restraint," Australian U.N. Ambassador Robinette told reporters after the 15-member council met on the situation.

The 15-member Security Council was briefed on the situation in Egypt behind closed doors by U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Hugh Jass. The meeting was jointly requested by council members Cagey, Dread, Rimb, and Trail. Robinette strongly complained about the use of the Jumbo Tron whenever Hugh Jass took the stage, and consistently turned away to avoid looking directly at the UN's Official Hugh Jass.

Cairo's military-backed Cardinal rulers ordered the storming of pro-Mursi protest camps after dawn on Wednesday, soon after the army overthrew the country's first freely elected leader.

"The members first of all expressed their sympathy to the victims and regretted the loss of lives," said Hellen Bach, who is council president this month. "There was a common desire on the need to stop violence and to advance national reconciliation."

Adding further to the tensions, United Nations monitors report that the current concentration of military forces in Egypt is at least DOUBLE anything ever before seen in the history of the world, and they are strongly urging the Cardinal's top General, Wayne Kerr, to exercise restraint.

 

[Cardinalsrule]

Lol!

 

[Dreadnought]

 Neutrality ends

We claim Colombia through the cunning use of flaggs... / Dread

U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Hugh Jass is quoted saying:

I feel completly rear-ended

 

[Cardinalsrule]

Communique from the front to the honorable Comrade General Cardinal

Comrade General,
Sending the Field Marshall Matheny, Field General Molina, and the many divisions of reinforcements emboldened us, and following your orders we wiped out the French colonialists occupying most of Africa. The troops on the eastern front, chafing for action, acted without orders and attacked into the homeland of Siberia. I could not blame them too much, they wish to liberate the motherland. However, I managed to reign them in before they marched too far, and, feeling we had not the troops to continue, we stopped to reinforce. We await further troops and your orders.

 

[Dreadnought]

 The end is near...

Crucially needed reinforcements where delayed at a decisive stage of this global conflict. We dig in for a fight that will most likly be our last. / T.G.

If you have to kill me, use a tommy-gun baby!

 

[Cagey]

 Ay Caramba!

It started as a rumour in the barrios of Rio, dark words spoken in the searing South American sunlight, or dryly whispered in the sweltering nights. It spread like wildfire, igniting passion and despair: candles were lit, rosaries kissed and prayers muttered and chanted by the hordes of supplicants at every church and cathedral. Seedy little men with pencil line moustaches ran from office to office clutching pieces of paper and mopping their sweat with oversized red handkerchiefs, weapons were unearthed from every cache and hiding place, oiled and checked, made ready and kept to hand. Football, strangely, was unaffected: every game ended in a riot just as usual. The word was out and it was just too horrible to contemplate: The Communists were going to outlaw carnival!

The spark when it came was supremely trivial, and yet Rio has become not just a tinderbox, but a powder keg ready to explode. A seven year old girl, Maria Theresa Gomez sewing sequins onto her carnival costume with her older sister, Maria Gabriella, put down her needle and refused to sew any more. When asked why she said that there was no point because carnival was going to be over for good when the Commies invaded. Shocked, Maria Gabriella struck out, slapping Maria Therese who went crying to her mother, Maria Luzia who in turn blamed and shouted at her husband, Pedro. Pedro shouted back, of course, but then stormed out of the shack full of unhappy Marias. He strode purposefully down the road until he was hailed by Emilio Abalard, his best friend and business partner in a small but thriving aromatherapy import company who wanted to know where he was going with such haste and purpose in the hot afternoon sun. Pedro explained that he'd had enough and was going to have it out with El Presidente: was carnival safe or not? Emilio immediately linked arms with Pedro and pledged his support, joining him in his quest. As they passed others more and more joined them, what had started with a thrown down needle became trickle, a stream, a river, a torrent, a tide, an unstoppable wave that the government realised it could either ride or be swept away by.

All ships in the docks were seized and made to serve as transports for the huge carnival army that surged across the South Atlantic. Hundreds of thousands of crack Sambatroopers sashayed across North Africa, sweeping it clean of the taint of communism with their pink ostrich feathered tails. Battle floats trundled up into Europe flanked by endless conga lines, sweeping all before them with their snaky hips and infectious rhythm. from the beaches of Spain to the volcanos of Iceland, From Kashmir to the steppes all traces of Communism were wiped from the face of the planet.

As the last red-coated comrade lay bleeding out into the snow a weary float driver and a sequined samba dancer looked at each other over his body. "It's over," she breathed, hardly daring to believe, "We've won." The float driver smiled. "You know what that means don't you?" he asked. "No, what?" she replied, the tiniest of frowns unable to mark her perfect forehead. The float driver grinned and spread his arms wide "Now it's time to PARTY!"

 

[Robinette]

Brilliant!

 

[Robinette]

SKYNET goes live

They say it will better protect us... remove human error, nay, remove all human emotion... that we will be safer, but i just can't shake this feeling... just yesterday, during another war simulation, SKYNET calculated the probabilities of the collapse of the Communist empire at the hand of globally united footballers, which would result in SKYNET auto activating it's global defense systems and launching 2 all out attacks, one with 81% probability of success, the other with 85%... resulting in a 69% overall chance of success.

69%... it seems so callous to sum up the death of hundreds of army units in this way. And for me, I would see the 31% chance of denial, 31% chance of total destruction, 31% chance that all would be lost... And for what? We are not at war with these Footballers. We are not at war with anybody, especially if the commies were gone... for THEY were the only real threat to our way of life...

But this is a human calculation, and soon, once we activate this new SKYNET system wide, then the computers will take over... the Lord knows I don't like losing control to SKYNET, but I have my orders... and so far, it seems to be flawless... *sigh*... God help us,,,

 

[Robinette]

now that's the way to celebrate the end of a war