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International News Networks / Re: Rokkenjima Broadcasting Corporation (RBC)
« on: April 19, 2024, 10:26:19 PM »IRN Repels Kusanse Drone Attack Against Assets In The Region
Kusanese forces launched a failed attack against the Imperial Rokkenjiman Navy.
The Imperial Rokkenjiman Navy shot down hundreds of Kusanese drones as the hermit kingdom attempted to strike out at the Imperial Rokkenjiman Navy as well as elements of the Royal Clysperi Navy which acted in concert with the IRN to largely repel the attack. Chrysanthemum Throne called the attack an "unwarranted provocation" and promised "a response at time and place of our choosing. Kusanese agression will not be tolerated," Chrysanthemum Throne said following the attempted attack. Speaking with the RBC it was noted that no Rokkenjiman assets were damaged in the attack, however, it was also determined that assets involved in the attack "will be destroyed in short order. We will not abide Kusan's ambitions, nor will be held at bay by them, we will show them the error of their ways," a source from IHC shared with the RBC.
"We may expand our retaliatory strikes," the source continued, "as they hold hostage Princess Sophia. We've a decent understanding as to where their air defenses are, so I would expect a response which targets sites directly involved in the launching of drones against the IRN, but also one which renders the anti-air defenses of Kusan rendered inoperable. This will not be a proportional response, it will be a response dependent upon the conditions on the ground. Even independent action from the Imperial Diet, I fear, we are in fact in a state of war with the Kusanese," an unnamed operative shared with the RBC.
While Imperial High Command declined a request for comment the RBC confirmed Rokkniman strikes within Kusan independently, the results of the strikes apparently knocking out air defenses in the southern regions of Kusan. "The IRN is leveraging all its assets against the Kusanese," one anonymous officer shared with the RBC, "and wheras the Army and Air Force cannot act, the IRN will punch whoever and whatever the Empress needs to be hit. We are at war," the source continued, "and we'll either see our Princess home or her captors dead There is no in-between here, we will not leave Kusan until Sophia leaves Kusan." Several sites in Kusan have reported retaliatory strikes which have rendered space operations "impossible."
For her part the Empress has not commented on the attacks, stating only "the Princess will be returned, period. Kusan is in charge on the path she is returned to Rokkenjima at present, and any deaths which result as to that path, will be on Kusan."