The Great Border War

[Aquatoria]

Ottawa

Empress Alia, the sixteen year old monarch of Canada looked at the camera as she said her speech. "This attack by the Dysaniian Republic was unprovoked and we are paying the price. We have been nothing but peaceful nieghbors. We niether took war to our nieghbors even though they have tried to destroy us or our friends. I have declared that the Greater Canadian Empire hereby declare total war. We will place every factory into building for the war effort. As well as move them away from the battlefields so they are safe. The Dysaniians believe that we only survived for two hundred years because of our allegiance to Inglo-Scotia. We will prove them wrong. We will fight them from the forests, we fight them from the plains, we fight them from the mountains, we will fight them from the tundra, but we will be victorious. We will see this war to the end and we will see victory. Parliament has rewarded Lord Protector Rommel and I emergency powers, so I have decreed that Lord Protector Rommel will lay down his civilian title and return to the war effort as Supreme Commander of the Canadian Armed Forces. Ladies and gentlemen, we will show the Dysaniians that they have awakened a sleeping dragon and we are mad."

All around the Empire and expecially on the battlefields, a message was played over and over again on the radio. Also this message was sent to the allies of Greater Canada and finally the message was sent to the government of Dysanii. "ROMMEL IS BACK!"

Toronto Front

Worthinto looked at the maps as he noticed the Dysaniian armies try to use a two pronged attack on Toronto. He read the reports from the front. The troops were basiclly being forced into the trenches. He couln't change the tactics quickly, but he knew that the Toronto region was lost. General Montecalm walked into the Field Marshal's office. "Sir, the Dysaniians are nearing Toronto. You know as well as I that southern Ontario is lost. Field Marshal Rommel has sent word that he needs your assistance. You need to leave now or you will never be able to leave."

Worthington looked up. "Are you asking me to abandon my men?"

"No, sir. I am telling you to leave to continue to protect your men. I will continue to lead the men here. Rommel has come up with a new plan of attack that may take our attacks to the offensive. But he needs you and your experience in tanks. A copter is waiting for you."

Worthington got up and nodded. "I will leave then. Be careful, General." Field Marshal Worthington walked to the top of the HQ. A military copter was waiting, and Worthington got in. Rommel needs me and I have had to flee my front. I swear this, I will return with an army behind me and I will free my people. The copter took off and flew over the entrenched soldiers and towards the remainder of free Greater Canada. No fighters appeared to challenge the copter nor any anti-air missiles. They flew for hours until they came to the capital. The war wasn't far from Ottawa, but the city isn't a priority....not yet. The copter landed on the Ottawa Military Central HQ. Worthington left and found Field Marshal Rommel waiting for him.

"Hello, Xavier."

"Hello, Frank. I need you to come and look at this." Rommel handed the Field Marshal a folder. He looked through it. It was a new method of not defense, but offensive. Worthington was surprised. "Sir, this is brillant. The Dysaniians won't know what hit them. What has been done to prepare for this?"

"I have pulled back some of the most experienced divisions from the front to prepare for the thrust. I called you to Ottawa because I want you to lead one of the new armies. We will reach our goal in one week and then we will attack."

Worthington looked at the Field Marshal. "Yes, sir. But i can improve on this. Show me to your office and I can show you."

The Great Lake

The Great Lake Fleet under the Great Lake battleship Laura Secord moved in to attack the South Seas Fleet. they had finally gotten through the minefields and were attacking Toronto. The fleet moved into position. They neared the South Seas Fleet. A fleet though small but was equal to size with the Canadian Great Lake Fleet. But the Great Lake Fleet had an advantage. The coastal defenses. The South Seas Fleet was close to Toronto, or close enough where the Great Lake Fleet and the coastal defenses could open up on them. A splash landed next to one of the ships. The South Seas Fleet was firing back at the Canadian fleet. The Canadian battleships returned the greeting with their main guns, while the smaller carriers let ther fighters fly. The South Seas Fleet let their fighters fly to counter the Canadian fighters. But just as the South Sea Fleet attacked the Great Lake Fleet, the disappering guns appeared and opened up on the South Sea Fleet.

The disappearing guns were in reality, battleship guns that worked on a hydolic that lifted them over their concrete and steel holding. From there they fired and then to reload they disapperaed again. This made them difficult to hit and with them constantly firing at the South Sea Fleet, the disappering guns were doing their damage. Land-based fighters flew from bases outside of Toronto and London to aid their carrier-based comrades. Soon numbers and power were going against the South Sea Fleet.

[Myroria]

Click. Click. Click.

The boots of the Sturmmann heading towards the airfield, where the entire field's stash of transport planes were waiting, made an ominous sound as their shiny jackboots repeatedly slammed into the cobblestones of the sidewalk of the normally inactive Myrorian town. Their coats were blowing in the wind, and the high-pitched, distorted voice of the commander just barely made it through their helmets' thick walls. There were some protestors over a war that Myroria shouldn't be in, but most people were just in their houses, continuing their lives. They weren't overly enthused about the war, but they didn't consider it illegal or an abodimation. To them, it weren't their sons, it wasn't their problems. The more outspoken ones usually had sons and brothers behind the smoked plastic of the Sturmmann's helmet.

These men were from Great House Hanso: You could tell because their helmets were silver and their coats white. Quarrovth's soldiers would have had white helmets. Vrotrith never fought, they hated any war where "outlanders were sent to die for a country that hates them". Conservative pundits back in the capital were already pushing Dysanii into the canals of Pelagis. The Imperial Family just hoped it wouldn't get worse; that was bad for their image.


The boot stomping ceased. A streak of red across the sky; Clytemnestra One was deorbiting - the moonshot had been put off until the war had gotten to the stand-still phase. Now the soldiers were in the planes, the closing of 57 metal doors replaced it. For a few hours, jets replaced that. Then the small Myrorian town was silent once again.

[Union]

ooc: There seems to be lack of any military realism here.

[Cantr]

OOC: I'm getting the same feeling, but I haven't spoken up because I'm not sure how to fix it.  What do you think should be done?

[Aquatoria]

ooc: Ok, we have an ooc for this. Express these matters there.

[Xyrael]

Secret Communications to the Democratic States of America
Security Level: Alfa
Origin: <<classified>>

To whom it may concern.

Item the Illuminate has authorized the mobilization of 15th and 16th Naval Squadrons and 2nd Division of Rikukaihei Ryu Kyu. In addition, 20th and 26th Regiments Wavefury and Tsunami SNLF have mobilized. The Illuminate offers these units to you for the defense of your citizens and people should your military find itself unable to commit sufficient troops for such purposes. These regiments will be dedicated peacekeeping units, and will use deadly force to ensure that the citizenry under their protection are kept safe.

Item the Illuminate will ship supplies of medicines, vaccinations, and doctors to help staff your hospitals. Several burn centers will be established near population centers.

Item the Illuminate is prepared to offer munitions and arms to the Democratic States of America immediately.

The Illuminate is not prepared at this time to dedicate troops to any offensive campaigns, and will not be willing to do so until such time that such action is warranted.

[Union]

For the last few weeks, thousands of shipments from Loyan had been crossing the ocean by boat to deliver war materials to the Canadians. They were filled with rifle ammunition, explosives, and titanium ingots in great amounts, all produce by the mobilizing industry of Loyan. There was money to be made, and factories were gearing their machinery to war production.

The cargo ships to carry these war materials were few and short. Many Loyanese shippers refuse to carry any cargo to Canada, on account of the risk involve. Few were willing to face the hazard pose by the Dysaniian fleet and the Loyanese Navy was short of ships to escort the shipments. Terran shipping companies had to be sourced to make up for the shortfall.

In parliament, Districtors were faced with an abrupt spit among the population regarding the war. Half supported the war efforts against the unjustified invasion, while the other was strongly opposed to any sort of military action and demanded diplomatic efforts be taken to end the war. The country was split between the pro-war and pacifists. When a bill was passed to give the military 5 billion dollars for a aircraft carrier program, protest broke out in downtown Na Sui. When the Districtor of Wai openly opposed the war, he was egged by pro-war citizens during his commute to work. State Police fear another breakdown in the social stability of Loyan.

The businesses of Loyan were pro-war. A conflict 5000 km away that was ripe for profit and free of risks; how could they pass the chance? The State was anxious to push the Dassies out of Canada, and they had taken out massive loans from international banks to pay for the war effort. Entrepreneurs were grabbing for the contracts and bids; a winning hand can add a few million, potentially hundred of millions, dollars to their pockets.

ooc: Modelling Loyan on Canada during the world wars.

[Dysanii]

Copperville

Opposition to the Republic has taken a dramatic turn in Copperville. The city is in the Northern Region of Dysanii and has long been vocally anti-Republic in favor of restoring the monarchy. Local political leaders of the pro-monarchy movement have organized and equipped an army of 13,000 Imperial Guards and plan to arrest the current Republic government at Chandalar.

People of the Northern cities are already flocking to join this militia and help establish the former empire of Imperial Camulodunum. In response to this the Republic has collected a force of 100,000 National Reserves local to the region and ordered the capture of Copperville in order to prevent an internal conflict that would hinder the war effort.

The pro-monarchists in Copperville have sent out a plea to all foreign nations to contribute supplies in the form of weapons and materials to the anti-Republic militia. The most prominent leaders have promised an end to the war should they seize power from the government and in the short-term have sworn to release the ill-treated Canadian civilian laborers. However they have also stated that should foreign soldiers set foot on Dysanii the Imperial Guard will assist the Federal Army in fighting the outside aggression in unity with the Republic before ultimately removing Republic power themselves. 

[Aquatoria]

To: Commanders of the Imperial Guard
From: Empress Hoshi of the Greater Canadian Empire

We congratulate you for being able to build quite a force, and we will support you with weapons. However we will respect that you ask for no foriegn soldiers attacking Dysanii directly. Now we may have enough weapons to give you, but we ask for some things in return in exchange along with the end of the war and the return of our citizens. We ask for war reparations and the island on the South Sea. Then we may have more then enough weapons for you. We also will give you Dysaniian uniforms so you can launch the coup from the capital and not from the north.

[Union]

After several months of planning and a brief two week boat ride, the main body of Loyanese forces arrive in Halifax with the more lucrative portions of Loyanese aid. The port was bustling with traffic where the flood of war materials enter the country. The Loyanese convoy had to wait quite a while before a pier was clear for them. Once they landed, unloading began right away and logistic personnel quickly synchronized with Canadian agents to get the supplies out into the war zone.

The First Anyia Expeditionary Force consists of several motorized divisions and a bulk of the LAA's air defense batteries. Elements of the Loyanese Advance Warfare (LAW)'s Electronic Warfare division were attached as well. A total of 30,000 combat personnel, 2500 combat vehicles, and their logistic divisions were present, ready for action. Their first day in Canada was however, nothing short of calamitous. Emerging from their heated cabins, the cold winds and snow hits them like a sledge hammer. Grand Marshal Yulin was particular bitter with the cold. His hometown of Jongling never got colder than 18'C in the wet season; here he was shivering to death in a wind chill of -18'C.

"It's like a meat freezer in here...achoo!..."
"It only gets colder from here Sir, war zone's getting temperatures in the minus 30s..."
"Oh Heaven...pass that tea will you..."
"Kettles empty, I'll make some more..."

Along with the Expeditionary Force came 86 fresh off the line S-300-PMU2 surface-to-air systems meant for the Canadians. Once the Canadians provide enough trucks to transport them, the FAEF will escort them to the desire areas to be set up and operated. Once online, the SAMs will provide a 200km radius air defense umbrella against Dassie aircraft.   

[Dysanii]

Kingston

The army advancing from Toronto has met up with the Eastern force at Kingston. Bombing operations have begun along with minor infiltration by Marines within the city. A sizable part of this army has moved West in order to hopefully cut-off the Canadian troops at Toronto from help and eventually sandwich them from fresh national Reserves moving up West of the border.

Hamilton and Montreal

Major offensives have occurred at Hamilton with significant results as parts of the city are taken, but with a hefty price in Dysaniian lives. Due to this, and the withdrawal of some Federal troops to combat the growing threat to the North, the proposed attacks on Montreal have been temporarily aborted to allow a focus on Hamilton.

Dysanii East Coast

The flotillas clinging to the coast have not encountered any significant offensives. The Republic has sent more troops towards the North-East of the coast as large Canadian and Valideen naval forces have been collecting near that area. A destroyer has also been dispatched to Rhodes.

East of Copperville

9,000 Imperial Guards have met up with the Emperors Own Volunteer Army (EOVA), an Army predominately of Northerners including armed civilians, sailors, police and deserters of local National Guard regiments which is commanded by the temporary autonomous government at Copperville, currently established as the Copperville Provisional Government. This force has moved East to the port city of Rhodes and surrounding area were it hopes to confront and repel the 100,000 Republic troops and take command of the city, which would allow foreign allies of the Pro-Monarchist Movement to sent supplies via the sea.

A further 2,000 Imperial Guards have also been sent to Alexandroupolis, a town further North, with the intention of freeing the Emperor from the small Republic garrison there. 

[Aquatoria]

Ottawa

Grand Duchess Selene was waiting in the palace for her daughter to arrive. Selene felt down and weak ever since her husband, the former Emperor of Greater Canada was assasinated. Emperor Nathaniel and Empress Miray had offered to allow her to go back home to Feneixia, but she turned it down. She needed to watch over her daughter and also over the country that she came to love. But today with the development of the Copperville Provisional Government in Dysanii, she felt as if Alia had gone too far. With that, Selene had gone before a secret meeting of Parliament and asked them to take away Alia's emergency powers and instead give them to her. The parliamentarians knew that Selene was a wonderful diplomat and leader. People describe her as the power behind the throne when her husband was in power. So Parliament signed a document making Selene ruling Regent of Greater Canada until her daughter's twentieth birthday, from which she will take command.

Alia walked in. "Mother, how are you." She smiled. Selene thought to herself. This girl deserves to have a normal life and not be forced to lead her people through war.

"Alia, Parliament has written this document. They are ordering you to hand your emergency powers over to me and allow me to assume my position as Regent. You are a young lady, who needs to worry about other things besides war and leading a nation. You will get power back when you are twenty, but until then I am now Regent."

Alia looked over the document and nodded. "I will follow this. You are now in command. Do what you see fit."

Battle of Hamilton

It was utter chaos. The city of Hamilton was under siege by the Dysaniian army. The Canadian soldiers however where not giving up ground as easily as the Dysaniian military thought they would. If the Canadians had to give up ground, they were making the Dysaniians pay with blood and lots of it. Building to building fighting was taking place, street battles were all too common. Lieutenant von Hessian was looking from the window of an abandoned apartment building. He lined his scope down on an unsuspecting Dysaniian soldier. He fired and got the soldier in the head. von Hessian moved to another window to avoid being detected. He looked around. Other snipers were taking positions and firing. The crackle of machine gun fire was heard in the distance. Small arms fire was everywhere. von Hessian knew that the city was far from taken and the Canadians were not about to hand over Hamilton. Burning shells of tanks and planes littered parts of the city. The Canadian army knew that if hamilton fell, so fell Montreal and later Northern Greater Canada. Their commanders had said exactly what the soldiers wanted to hear. "Not one step back. If we have to fall back, make the enemy pay in blood for every kilometer, but otherwise, we stand our ground."

Battle of Kingston

The Canadian soldiers hid among the rubble of the city. Kingston was alos turning into another Hamilton. The Canadian army's new tactic of not one step back was also making Kingston a fight to the death. The few Dysaniian soldiers that entered were being met with a fierce Canadian resistance that wasn't about to fail. The soldiers knew that this was their home and they needed to defend it. They knew that the Canadian Empire could not fall if they fought for her. The amount of fresh soldiers to fight were coming in daily. Kingston was soon turning into a melting pot. The street-to-street battle turned recruits into veterans almost overnight. they learned quickly the horrors of war and they knew that they had to make the Dysaniians pay in blood if they wanted Kingston. If Kingston fell then Ottawa, the capital of the Empire, would be threatened.

[Union]

Skywatcher Batteries, Aircraft Engagement Area


Vicinity of Montreal

"Palis, time to switch off the radar and move!"
"Alright, you got my ARU?"
"Beef rice, hot off the pot!"

   The 5th Sky Watcher Battery had been operating outside of the city limits for the last three days, extending an invisible air defense umbrella over a 125 600 sq.km area. The battery consisted of several S-300 missile launchers and several sets of mobile radar, all spread out in Montreal's rural wilderness. If there was anything that the Loyanese knew best about, it would be operating SAMs. 5th Sky Watch was no exception, and they were to follow everything by the textbook.

   Palis got out from the command cab of the REV (Radar Equipped Vehicle) and open up the control panel at the side of the 8-wheel truck. The REV's Altitude Search Radar Array towers over him, sending a out the hum of electricity. Palis pulls the power switch and the hum dissipates. Once he was sure the radar had power down, he pulls the hydraulic lever, and the radar array begins to fold down onto the truck bed. There was the heavy catch of a metal lock as the array drops into place.

"All done here!" Palis yells out.
"Alright! I left your meal on the hood. Get it and let's go!" Lien yells back. Lien also finishes with his truck and ran off to check on the others. Once the other three REVs were done packing up, Lien signals the LGF soldiers that were escorting them.

   Palis watches as the LFG commander in charge nods in response and jogs off to his armor vehicle. His shivering subordinates do the same, more than relieve to get out from the cold and into the heated confines of their carriers. Palis feels a bit guilty; while he was in his warm cabin, the 3rd Lotus Regiment had to stand outside in the snow and wind. All to protect his Skywatcher ass...

"Palis, get driving! We have a schedule to keep..."
"Uh...sorry!"

   Palis grabs his ration meal from the hood of the truck and gets into the driver seat. After making sure his meal was secure in the tray made just for the purpose, he switches the gear from park. The truck had been left on idle; as he and his unit learned on the first day, starting up the engines in Canadian winter was a shit load of hassle. Better to just leave it on and skip ignition, idling also provided heating to the cab.

  The entire convoy moves across the white face of the landscape, swiveling between clusters of pine trees and bare maples. Leading the convoy is Lien, the only person in the unit to know the next location of the "set up". Air defense is a serious matter, which affords no room for error. Each Skywatcher battery is given a encoded randomized schedule, showing where and when each part of the battery will move. Decoding was done by a Designated Keeper like Lien, who was trained to read the code. It was a lot like artillery tactics, constant displacement of your guns to prevent enemy counter batteries. In this case, missiles and radar was move around constantly to throw off the enemy. It was difference between a effective air umbrella and an aircraft breaking through and blowing your ass out with an anti-rad missile.

"Alright, get your REVs up." Lien shouts out as he jumps out from his truck. They had moved five kilometers from their former-location, into a elevated forest clearing.
"How long's the cool down?" Palis asks after taking a bite from his beef rice.
"One hour before we go online again. You and the others take a break, I'll watch the Passive."         

Palis went to join his REV comrades. They were gather around lone tree, where a LFG private was trying to climb up.

"Hei, what the hell you doing?" Palis yells up the tree. Leis, Lien's sister, answers him, "Trying to get a good lookout of the surroundings..."
Private Hei yells down, "It's a sea of snow up here!"
"Get down before you break your back..."

Everyone laughs out. For the moment, the land and sky are calm and Palis had a while to admire the alien landscape before him. He breathes in the frosty air. As it circulates in his lungs, he could had swear that there was the taste of smoke and gunpowder from the battlefield of Kingston.

[Union]

Under the cover of an Allied invasion in Dysanii's north, the Loyanese flotilla launched several attacks on offshore oil wells near the east coast. A total of five major offshore wells were taken down with YJ-82 missiles coordinated by GPS.

Through the operation, a small Dysaniian fleet attachment engaged the Loyanese flotilla with support of inland fighter aircraft. The Loyanese flagship, Iron Angel, kept enemy air elements at bay with it's battery of S-300 SAMs and jamming measures. However, several losses resulted from closing Dysaniian ships, sinking one supply vessel and damaging two frigates. The Loyanese flotilla scored no kills against enemy warships, but did get twenty confirm kills against enemy aircraft.

C.L.S Fear, the forward element of the flotilla, gain the distinction of being the first Loyanese warship to shoot down a enemy missile with the new RAM system. The Fear was on a retreat course to the Iron Angel's SAM umbrella, when a unidentified Dysanii aircraft launched a two consecutive anti-ship missiles at 80 km off range. The first missile enter within 6km of the Fear before being destroy by a RAM missile. The second missile enter within 4km of the ship, surviving one RAM missile, but being hit by a second one. A total of four RAM missiles were launched. As the captain of the ship will later remark, "It was two million dollars well spent...".

The Loyanese flotilla manage to escape, leaving with 31 personnel killed and many other wounded. The supply ship was destroy when an anti-ship missile hit its stern. Ten crewmen managed to escape before she sank four minutes later. A frigate was also damaged when a RAM missile fail to destroy the missile completely. The missile flew onto the starboard deck, where it exploded and killed fourteen people and injured several others. The second frigate suffered a hit to its bow when it's defense systems were overwhelmed by a barrage of fifteen to twenty anti-ship missiles. Both frigates retained propulsion, and escaped with the remainder of the flotilla.

The flotilla is now heading back to Yaolin for refit and combat analysis. It now was apparent that the Loyanese Fleet required more ships and a carrier to better it's chances against the Dysaniian Navy.     

[Dysanii]

Kingston and Hamilton

The fighting had been long and bitter and both cities now lay in ruins. News of the establishment of the Copperville Provisional Government has only fueled the loyalty of the Federal soldiers on the front and kept them fighting for the Republic. However communications have also discovered the creation of Canadian super-tanks and their current transportation to the front.

Although information of such tanks is fleeting and considered by some rumor the Military Command is taking no chances as foreign forces also approach the 'Eastern Wall' - a coastal line of defense measures enacted by the Military Command that is growing stronger each day including temporary airfields, barbed wire, mines, bunkers, gun emplacements, the works.

With the growing realization that a seaborne invasion is imminent the Military Command has gone all-out to push the Canadians out of the cities. Guns, howitzers and grenades are among some of the fresh arms that have flooded to the front from the Dysanii power industries and the troops in the cities have been armed accordingly.

With this new equipment the Military Command has sent out orders to all military commanders to throw out the stalling Canadian defenders. With renewed vigor and plenty of munitions the Dysaniian forces have thrown themselves at the Canadians, tirelessly mounting numerous violent attacks and breaking the tired and semi-surprised Canadian lines in several places. Heavy air strikes have also been called in, totally flattening vast areas of the cities in Canadian hands. A total of 1,000,000 of the equipped and trained troops assembled before the war broke are/have been involved in these massive pushes and signs are showing of the hastily assembled Canadian forces being scattered to Eastern provinces.