230 Martyr

All documented articles from the year 230 of planet Martyr.

## Q1/230 Martyr

### Olympus

**Britannica -** "**Britannica**, in response to recent diplomatic incidents, is placing a trade embargo upon Methadonia. It also blocks all transport between the two nations, troops have been placed on high alert."

**Methadonia -** "cartels start invading neighbouring countries"

**Britannica -** "British troops amass on the Methadonian border"

### Syrtis

**Thine Martian -** "Thine Martian announces The Great Potatoing where large amounts of potatoes are grown, Thine Martian additionally announces an increased budget towards that "space" thing that nobody really knows about."

### Amazonis

**Potato Reich -** "The Potato Reich has just discovered a shit load of oil off the countries shorelines. It will now begin extracting and exporting this shit load of oil."

**Britannica -** "Britannica expresses interest in this oil for its navy"

**Potato Reich -** "The Potato Reich has joined the Pact of Steel. This will help with oil trading."

**Methadonia - "**potatoes love meth, it helps them grow"

### Argyre

**Seves -** "Seves begins bohrium excavation."

### Global

**Methadonia** founds the United Nations

**Thine Martian** founds the Organisation des Nations in "opposition" to the United Nations

**Potato Reich** founds the Martyr na Náisiún Aontaithe, in order to "protect the growth of potatoes by other potato-growing and potato-loving nations."

**Thine Martian -** "Thine Martian expresses a great interest in joining The Martyr na Náisiún Aontaithe"

**Britannica** **-** "Britannica forms the Pact of Steel with Seves and the Kingdom of Scandinavia. Name subject to change."

**Thine Martian** **-** "Thine Martian joins the Pact of Steel and the Martyr na Náisiún Aontaithe"

**Federated Syndicates of Chatkar -** "Federated Syndicates of Chatkar joins the Pact of Steel"

## Q2/230 Martyr

### Chatkar

**Scandinavia -** "Scandinavia is beginning research into space, along with possible development of a space capable launch vehicle."

**Federated Syndicates of Chatkar -** "A new Federal Council has been appointed by the National Congress, with the President of the Federation being an old guard revolutionary, who wishes to open up Chatkar to the world and begin reforms to encourage a peaceful worldwide revolution. Militarists have lost in the election with the Social Democratic party gaining the 20 seats in the House of Deputies and 3 seats in the Senate that previously belonged to the militarists. Marxist-DeLeonist elements in the Federated Syndicates have shifted party line to begin direct industrial action to further bring new technologies to the nation. Old guard militias on the land border of the F.S.C were recently pulled to the interior of the country as finally, security seems to have been ensured for the young republic."

### Olympus

**Britannica -** "Britannica begins to modernise it's tank corps, with the aging STRV-2s being replaced with the new STRV-2005H and STRV-2005E. These will be some of the best tanks in the world, with the 2005D being able to go at 40km/h despite its fairly hefty weight of 130 tons. They will be outfitted with sabot rounds as soon as tungsten is available in large quantities, for now they will use APHECBC rounds."

**Methadonia -** "The cartel steals tanks from neighbouring nations."

**Lyzon -** "Lyzon reports of a planned terrorist attack on the royal palace. The government warns such plans will not be tolerated, and has founded the Royal Secret Service.."

**Lyzon -** "CAPITAL TERRORIST ATTACK, It has been reported that the new headquarters of the RSS has just been bombed by terrorists, the capital is now on lockdown. There have been 16 confirmed deaths, and the Royal Guard has been deployed. Citizens are urged to stay indoors, and possibly barricade windows and doors if near the city center. It is suspected the palace attack plans were a diversion, and were never to be put into action. "

**Methadonia -** "MFA HAS BEEN FOUNDED, The methadonia freedom army will use teroistic methods to free methadonia from the pact of caca."

**Britannica -** "Finding the lost land, Britannica is expressing an interest to find a new jewel for its crown, a true successor to the lost land of India. **Britannica** frankly cannot stand **Methadonias** blatant collaboration and support of both terrorist organisations and drug cartels. This, I suppose can be ear marked as a wargoal. Britannica asks the Pact Of Steel: will you join a war to stop this madness? Britannica has finished replacing its tank force."

**Methadonia -** "Cartel thinks these tanks would be quite nice to have"

**Britannica -** "Britannica begins midlife refits of a few battle cruisers, improving them substantially. This comes as news of 2 nations being picked for potential jewels, which are actually not Methadonia or The Promised Penis Land."

### Syrtis

**Thine Martian -** "Thine Martian has found that martyr is a ball not a flat pancake."

**Britannica -** "Britannica offers assistance fighting drug crime"

**Thine Martian -** "Thine Martian exclaims that drugs are cringe and would take a proactive stance in reducing drug crime"

**Britannica -** "Britannica can supply guns and expertise in on how to fight these drug lords, if Thine Martian should wish."

**Cuidad -** "Cuidad announces it is forming the Auropan Union, members include: Cuidad, Grasama, Mesto, Mahalo, Turner, Adonis, Tanaka, Austar, Varosa, Xorus. All member nations are in an agreement to form a military alliance upon the invasion of any other member nation."

**Axio -** "AXIONIAN PRESIDENT STATES LOTAR IS A "PARASITE". The president has described the nation as greedy and corrupt, stating they must change their ways and implement human rights legislation or face consequences. The Lotarian Foreign Affairs Minister has stated these claims are "ridiculous" and "Axio is not in a position to talk of human rights"."

### Argyre

"SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS 24 PEOPLE IN SEVES. MFA has taken all responsibility for the attack on Seves. The Methadonian government and the Methodian cartel have stated they have no involvement with the recent terror attack. "

**Methadonia** states it "talks to the MRA quite frequently"

## Q3/230 Martyr

### Chatkar

**Federated Syndicates of Chatkar** **-** "Federal Gazette: News from the capital as a new act has been passed with a resounding 80% majority vote in both houses as the new economic plan has been passed; a compramise between the marketist elements and the command proponents in the country. The act establishes a new federal industry agency, meant to coordinate with local industrial workplaces and the industrial union, as well as a new federal bureau for scientific advancement: both being approved directly by the National Trade Union Congress. This is an amazing result as the Liberty party dominated House of Deputies and the now contested Senate. This also shows a new face of unity within the nation as the notoriously standoffish Trade Union Congress has struck a harmony with the Federal Government."

**Scandinavia -** "INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. New infrastructure will constucted throughout the Kingdom with the aim being to better connect Scandinavia, more of the Archipelagos will be connected with new bridging and tunneling developments along with better road connections through the mountainous region of the country. The project is hoped to be completed in around a year. "

### Olympus

**Union of Olympus -** "TRADE DEAL STRUCK WITH THE AU. The Chancellor of the Union of Olympus has met with the leaders of the Auropan Union member nations, and has negotiated a trade deal in which there will be free trade of consumer goods, and a streamlined system for military assets. The Union will now be fully engaging it's industrial complex in order to meet the new demand, and military contractors have lined up to sign lucrative deals."

**Lyzon -** "PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM. H.R.H the King has begun personally drawing up plans for a large scale public infrastructure improvement program. This has been highly anticipated, as H.R.H was a former civil planner, and stated in his enaguratuon that infrastructure would be a high priority of his. Funding will be slowly increased for train development, and rail line construction. Several cities will also be redesigned to be more pedestrian friendly, as many people in Lyzon simply do not own automobiles."

**Britannica -** "INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION SCHEME. Britannica has embarked upon a project to make its civilian economy completely self-sufficient in terms of oil, via means of synthetic refineries. These will also build up a stockpile which will last the Army, navy and air force at least one year. These synthetic refineries will be ready in around a year. Meanwhile the scientists of Britannica will be working on improvements to this oil, and it is expected that Britannica will be able to produce around 125% of it's consumption by two years time.

Transportation Scheme. Britannica is looking into building a massive tunnel network between the islands. This however would be an absolutely enormous undertaking, and would take several years if not a decade. This would also come on top of the regional tunnels between the small isles and their mainland. The most likely of these tunnels is to connect Penistone to the mainland, which would likely take two years. What is certain however is that road, rail and airborne connectivity will continue to be improved surprisingly quickly for Britannica's notoriously free market economy.

Britannica ramps up tank production. Britannica is upping it tank force from only 1 division of 800 tanks to an entire corps with 3200 tanks, 400 SPARTY, 400 SPAA and 4000 tracked vehicles. This will not be a united corps, and so will delegate to the divisions for support."

### Syrtis

Tensions between Britannica and Methadonia increase dramatically due to claims of collaboration with terrorists.

**Britannica -** "British special forces prepare to open fire in the capital of Methadonia if the MRA is not forced to stand down. "

### Argyre

"IED HAS BEEN PUT IN A PUBLIC AREA OF SEVES BY THE MRA. Plans to detonate if seves doesnt comply with them"

## Q4/230 Martyr

### Olympus

**Britannica -** "Britannica is completely overhauling its tank corps, with proper organisation. This will vastly increase combat effectiveness.

The overhaul of tanks is complete, transforming the unorganised tank forces into a fully-operational 1st Corps, and 4 divisions. In total, they make up around 100,000 men, pushing the limits of what can be considered a corps. Divisions such as these can be fully operational on their own and this corps will be sent to Auropa for this upcoming conflict. To fulfil this, many millitamen have been forced into active duty, making the armies numbers swell to 400,000 men.

The overhauling of the entire army is now complete, and production of military equipment is stepping up to supply some 200,000 new troops. The army will be at fighting strength in a year"

**Lyzon -** "Plans have been drawn, and the construction of new rail lines and the improvement of former rail lines had begun. It is hoped the new transportation will boost the economy.

The Imperial Guard and Royal Navy have begun research into armoured vehicles."

**Britannica -** "Britannica announces the creation of paratroopers and marines under the control of the army. This will increase army sizes further to around 450,000 troops.

Britannica states that the Union of Olypmus is nothing but a Jewel in the crown of Britannica and will do whatever it takes to recover it."

### Syrtis

**Axio -** "The axionian president has leaked documents regarding human rights violations in Lotar"

**Britannica -** "Britannica states it will not tolerate human rights abuses, unless they are performed on illegal immigrants."

**Lotar -** "The Lotarian president has also leaked documents regarding human rights violations in Axio, including accounts of soldiers torturing citizens."

**Britannica -** "Britannica says this is cripplingly unbased and will send a batalion of special forces to wipe out the entire Lotarian and Axion army if these human rights abuses are not fixed."

**Axio -** "The Axionian coast guard responds with images of Britannican immigrants being tortured"

**Britannica -** "Britannica cracks and delivers a naval group to bombard Axio. British special forces navigate through the mess that is syrtis from Methadonia through to Axio as marines and paratroopers are sent out."

**Axio -** "The Axionian Armed Forces and Coast Guard have been deployed."

**Britannica -** "British special forces begin the evacuation of every single British civilian from Auropa, leaving them to kill themselves."

### Argyre

**Britannica -** "British special forces are paradropping into Seves.

They have located the bomb and upon further inspection have decided it needs to be removed, as it is impossible to defuse. 1 company takes the bomb, and will load it into a plane and throw it in the sea.

Before dropping the bomb, the British troops attached small explosives to the IED, set to detonate midair. The IED was destroyed."