OOC - I'm assuming this is being done by video conference like we discussed at the conference to expand things.
Martja Larsson, the Nya Åland Minister of Defence was naturally the first to reply. "As it stands there are a few issues with the proposal put forward. If I can I'll go through them one at a time. First, we have a problem with the idea of the Satellite Security Task Force. Many of the satellites in orbit around Mundus are sensitive military ones, I think therefore we should make this about civilian communications, sadly each nation must be responsible for the security of their own military assets however the Joint Nordic Space Programme is willing to help should any nation request it. A fail safe backup system is something however we would support and I think we should be able to do so pretty simply with ourselves and the Cenneg around the table. At present I do not envisage a situation where foreign military assets will be needed on Nya Åland soil, what we however would appreciate and perhaps require is each nation be prepared to carry out operations in their own nation should we find this not to be based in Nya Åland at the source. Finally I don't think we perhaps need to put into orbit a brand new satellite system for communications I think we have enough assets between us to be able to cobble together one based on what we already have up there." With that the Ålander finished there was a pause for a few seconds.
Next to speak was the Cenneg Minister of Defence, Charles O'Greedy. "I believe that perhaps we will need to have military assets on stand by. We've had the Rokkenjiman's make comments about "utilising" their own tools. Whatever that means. We've seen under the previous Empress that Rokkenjima's first reaction to a crisis is sending aircraft carriers to a region. It appears that policy is one we can not rule out the new one doing. As such I think we may need to look at ways of ensuring that this organisation is free to pursue what we are planning here. My second issue is I think a new satellite communications network would be a good idea. Many of our nations systems will probably be 20 years old, things have changed dramatically in that time and the processing power of these old systems means they can easily be overwhelmed. I think we could perhaps explore the possibility of putting state of the art systems in place. We certainly have the capability between the members sat here. My last comment is a question to Miss Larsson, I've heard SmartWar are involved in the investigation, may we know what their role is?"
The screen went back to Martja, "We have a long standing partnership with the Morelanders, as I think many of us do. We believe this is a unique threat by a terrorist group, however SmartWar have a track record of coming up with things to help solve terrorist issues and are rather unique thinkers. They are going to look at the same data we have given you regarding the black outs and we shall see what they can come up with, essentially seeing if they could work out how its done and then that could help us find where its being done."
