The Kingdom of East Moreland is saddened that Rokkenjima have seen fit in one fell swoop to dismantle a treaty binding three nations together. While East Moreland and Rokkenjima have in recent months had many issues we had begun to work through these while Evanthe Rhodes was Empress. This has seen a variety of discussions that have taken place and East Moreland operations supporting Rokkenjiman intelligence aims. This therefore leaves us slightly dismayed at accusations that our nation has acted in a manner described as "open hostility and disrespect East Moreland has shown the First Empire" . While it would be true to say our trust in Empress Beatrice has been tarnished we have never stopped trusting the people of Rokkenjima. Our nations diplomatic doors remain open and we hope the Rokkenjimans remain true to the spirit of what established the original Tripartite in regards to maintaining minimal forces in the Illumic. There is unprecedented regional co-operation in the Illumic region after the formation of a solid Alba Karinya Organisation and these nations are more than capable of policing these waters, added to that the glorious return of Seaforth, a nation we shall always count as an ally it is our hope they too will join with us in helping ensure the safety of our home waters. 

Our nation is further dismayed that this dissolution happened with no warning, in the past we have seen Rokkenjima take several actions against the spirit of the Tripartite by making military moves without warning as determined by the agreement. Our ambassadors we're given no warning of this cancellation and had hoped for better communication. We have therefore had no chance to discuss this cancellation with Dartfordia, meaning that our two nations now share no formal bond. This is something that our nation would like to put right and therefore plan to formally offer Dartfordia continuation of the terms of the Tripartite between our nation.

Furthermore we shall be suspending with immediate effect our intelligence operation in aid of supporting Rokkenjima as it is clear our support is no longer required.

As stipulated by the CNN charter military exercises are to take place regularly between CNN nations. The first of these began an hour ago.

The premise of this is to test the ability of forces to deploy rapidly to any point in Mundus and carry out operations. This particular exercise shall see the East Moreland military play the role of Alpha Force while Ui Cenneslaig, Lodja and the Ecclesiastical State shall play the role of Bravo force. The Commonwealth of the Iwi shall not feature in this exercise.

Starting as soon as possible Alpha force shall deploy from East Moreland bases at Ostlake, Portworth and Illumic Command  and RV at a point exactly 250km west of the island known as Barnacle Island, from that point they shall be free to react to actions from Bravo force. The objective of Bravo force shall be to land amphibious forces at two points, one 100km west of Portworth on the Mhorish coast while the other shall be 50km North of Illumic Command on the Illumic coast. The exercise shall last 16 days and feature Army, Air and Naval forces.

We shall do all within reason to stay clear of trade routes. In the spirit of friendship and regional co-operation we invite the nations of Bretonia, Seaforth and Heyra to send ten observers to be embedded with the various forces as observers.

Signed on behalf of the CNN

Malcolm Tucker, Royal Press Secretary

It was a typical quiet day in the Royal Events office, the King was off at a cabinet meeting all day so there was nothing to really organise apart from making sure he finished in time to get to his daughters end of year school performance at 4pm. The main focus was on the Ostlake Games, invites to events hosted by King David and Princess Freya were being checked and double checked before being sent and the three office staff where focused on checking lists of names when the door burst open. "Who the hell let this crazy bitch in" he had four copies of Gossip Daily tucked under his arm and proceeded to throw them at the unsuspecting office staff. "Do any of you morons remember who the hell Erin Osman is?" he looked around before throwing his final copy hard at the nearest of the office staff. "Allow me to remind you....she's the personification of a leak....mainly because she can't keep her legs shut but that's beside the point. You literally may as well have just opened the Palace gates to every news rag on Mundus as invite that bitch" he was yelling. "I'm now going to have to spend the day mopping up literally a hurricane of piss."

"Does that mean we should take her off the Military Games Ball guest list" one of the aides asked nervous.

"Holy shite" Malcolm exclaimed spinning on his heels as he had been preparing to leave. "Who the hell is drawing up these lists, the bloody Barrens?" he asked rhetorically referring to the Borlanders so called royal family. "Don't you think the King's had enough grief from these religious fruitcakes of the Sisterhood....I mean what is that, sounds like an orgy club for lesbians or something" he noticed one of the events staff chuckle. "It's not funny, you try spending an hour listening to the media literally going through every mammal with a face the Kings meet in the last twelve months and asking if he's shagged it" he snapped yelling at the chuckler. "Now you are going to look at every list and remove her, you are then going to double check the lists and remove anyone she's even a tiny bit pally with and should she somehow get through or someone gives her any details on the events, even if its what colour socks the King wears then all of you are for the chop......and I don't mean the sack I mean I will literally chop your lady bollocks off" he glared at them. "Now get it done." He turned and headed out back towards his own office his phone going as he did so, in a well practiced motion he flicked the button to answer it "Tucker" he said sternly. "Oh piss off" he yelled into the phone before hanging up on Gossip Daily once more.

"Going well then Dad" his daughter Erin was waiting by the entrance to his own office. Instantly Malcolm's demener changed and he hugged his eldest daughter warmly.

"Oh you know, surrounded by retards" he put an arm around her and guided her into his office two doors down from the King. "When did you get into town?" he asked her as he sat her down and headed to his own seat with its back to the Palace's lake. Erin Tucker had been named one of the embassy team for Lodja and while Sir Simon Hall lived on the Isle of the Goddess it was Erin who was left at the embassy in Gaia. She rather enjoyed Lodja, it was an interesting place to live and rather lively, unlike Sir Simon she wasn't automatically involved in the high class end of society, after all her father was just a press secretary and carried no noble blood, but even as a Pleb in Lodja it was a fun city to live in and her embassy role gave her significant privilege that few doors were closed to her.

"So what you telling the press?" Erin asked as she waited for her Dad to pour her that wine she knew was coming despite it being early in the morning. As the glass of red was slide across the desktop she took it and raised a glass in his direction as he did likewise.

"Usual flannel. We've bigger fish to fry than this nothing." Malcolm swung his feet up to place them on the edge of the desk. His phone rang again, he checked the number, recognised it as a trash journalist and muted it. "Give it a week and they'll have the King shagging someone else whose the flavour on the month"

"It true" Erin said confidently and noticed a raised eyebrow from her father. "Oh yeah, every time he visits Lodja they are always together, she's seen coming and going from his room. Line of women a mile long waiting to dance with him at the coronation but only dances with Stasya. It's one of the most open secrets in the Lodjain court." she chuckled, it wasn't often her father wasn't first to know something.

"Sly bastard" was all Malcolm could say almost admiringly, "Well he's done well for himself. So guess we better prepare for more of this." he picked up his phone, cancelled the in coming call and tapped away. "Aye Steve" he was on the phone to his deputies, "Tell the media the next twat he prints about the festival rumours wins a prize.......they win a big barrel of never getting past the palace gates again......I don't know tell them the King doesn't like the way they invade Rhiannon's privacy that usually works short of that just tell them I would make it a point to destroy them......that'll do Steve. That'll do." He was confident his ever dangling hook of access to the royal family would, for the time being, get the media to take the rumour off the front pages for a week or two. "Now, do you think I could shoot Erin Osman?" he asked his daughter who just smiled along with her father at the thought of the simple solution that was clearly beyond his means. "Do me a favour" Malcolm said as after twenty minutes of catch up with his daughter she headed for the door. "Davey boy gets randy in Lodja again you give me a heads up?" his daughter nodded and left heading to find her driver to head back to Lodja to resume her duties and her new ones as a spy for her father.

The nation has today celebrated both The Festival of Greenflowers and the 37th birthday of King David III. The nation made the most of the sunny weather to gather in parks, listen to concerts, watch the Northfort Military Parade and generally celebrate. The festival marks the anniversary of the Battle of Greenflowers, which over 1,400 years ago saw King Robert the Unifier defeat the Borlanders and form the Kingdom of East Moreland. As the battle seemed to be evenly matched a group of peasants, lead by Lord Cedric had marched through the night from Keepton arrived at the battlefield and turned the tide of the battle, these peasants had been dressed in white tunics which by the end of the Battle had turned Red with blood, it was from this legendary endurance march that the nations elite force take their name of Red Legion. As such it was left to Red Legion veterans to lead the march through Northfort by members of the armed forces to the Temple of Jekar where several units were presented with new honours for their colours. The King was present to hand out the new honours and it was revealed that he had recently returned from being part of rescue operations in Seaforth along with his old unit the Alpine Cadre. Royal Press Secretary Malcolm Tucker said, "I can confirm that King David was part of a rescue operation within Seaforth. A distress signal was received and it called for experts in high angle rescue. This is a standard procedure for members of the Alpine Cadre and with time being of the essence the King reactivated himself to ensure the team had someone experienced in this practice. The mission was a great success and the Alpine Cadre have once again been a credit to our armed forces. The King will now resume his retirement from military service."

After the parade the King spent the day with his daughter, Princess Rhiannon and his sister Princess Freya along with her husband Alex Redfern. The four watched the annual concert in the People's Park from seating set up in the neighbouring grounds of the Palace, however Freya and Rhiannon where spotted in the VIP area of the concert during the performances in the early evening. The royal family where joined for the evening fireworks session by various guests including the Pelagiya family from Lodja, Duke Tobias Pelagiya having recently been appointed as a liason for Alba Karinya. He was accompanied by his wife Lady Anouskha, his daughter Royal Lady in Waiting Stasya Pelagiya and their 16 year old son Henrik. Other guests included former CTO Sec-Gen Tim Carpenter, rugby world cup winner Rollo MacAllister and astronaut Rachel Dixon.

The King was apparently presented with a signed rugby shirt from the World Cup winning HoneyBadgers and according to Palace sources received breakfast in bed from his daughter. The King is expected to begin training for the Ostlake Military Games in the next few days where he will be competing for Pegasus Legion in the Legionnaire Legacy Rowing Challenge, a gym based rowing event for wounded veterans.

David was pleased his meeting here would at least ensure further resources and funding for JET, now all that was needed would be to eventually get the Sisrinisian's to join up on a deployment, however at present thankfully there weren't any[1]. The King walked along with his host, "So what delights you going to show us?" he asked as they began their tour.

1.	time of this RP is prior to stuff like the crisis currently on going as far as I know

	Lucy Townsend
Roles	Youth Swordsman with the  East Moreland Swordship Council University Student at Royal Merriman University
Year of Birth	2000, Silverhils
Positions Held	2018-present Youth Swordsman Mentor 2018-present Chemistry Student at University
Education	HIgher Levels in Chemistry (A), Biology (A) and Maths (C)
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In our world the planets are named as follows.


Mercury: Nabu
Venus: Ishtar
Earth: Mundus
Mars: Nergal
Jupiter: Marduk
Saturn: Ninurta
Uranus: Anshar
Neptune: Kishar
Pluto: Ninlil

The nation stopped yesterday to celebrate the 4th marriage of King Akakois. In a ceremony which took place at the Ipsus Royal Palace around 2,000 guests were invited to witness the union between the monarch and his 23 year old wife who was immediately named as Queen Oksana I. The King's  Escort was made up of his son's Crown Prince Hadi and Prince Heydar, both of whom were wearing military uniform. Meanwhile Queen Oksana was accompanied by her mother and sister, both Lodjian noblewoman. Following the ceremony the King and his four wives paraded through the streets receiving offerings from the public, before returning to the Palace for the evening feast. While the King entertained his guests at a large garden party the streets of Ipsus became one giant street party lasting until the early morning. One young reveller said, "Today is a great day, the King is blessed by Goddess and soon we shall be blessed with more royals, children of the Goddess." Meanwhile others were delighted to have a young Queen again, "To have a 23 year old Queen we have someone who will represent us younger Seleucid citizens. I'm delighted and so happy."

The King's 2nd youngest wife, Queen Katerina spoke briefly to the media saying, " My new Sister Wife will be a good addition to our family, she is sweet, intelligent and already begun embracing our culture. I know she'll soon be a mother and I look forward to meeting new Sister Sons and Daughters. The bigger our family the more blessed we are."

The decision to not invite any foreign powers however was put down to, according to a royal press secretary, "A wedding is a happy occasion, thanks to lies spread about our nation we are unable to guarentee some nations wouldn't take this momentous day as being some chance to make a public statement or try and hijack the occasion for their own twisted schemes. Today is about two people's love."

The National Intelligence Agency have today produced what they say is evidence that the Truthsayers are using child soldiers. The organisation responsible for providing anti-terror operations, among other things, released two images which we have reproduced above. The photo on the right is of a Ui Cenneslaig citizen, reportedly called Sarah McPherson who entered East Moreland just over a year ago. The image was taken by passport control for her temporary ID card, as is standard practice with all visitors to East Moreland, the one on the left is a still taken from footage filmed by the Truthsayers during their "celebration" in Seitch. A Ministry of Defence spokesman explained. "This Miss McPherson, who is clearly a Truthsayer, entered our nation as a tourist on a Ui Cenneslaig passport, when she did so she had just turned 17 years of age and was travelling on a student exchange. This was a time before we knew of the existance of the Chapterhouse schools. This means that she is now only just past her 18th birthday, by three weeks in fact. There is no way a person could be trained for the kind of infiltration mission Seitch must have been in three weeks. This evidence therefore shows that the Bene Gesserit's paramilitary force of the Truthsayers must be the same as those involved at their schools.

Brigadier Kelly, commanding officer of Red Legion also spoke on the situation saying, " The kind of skills required to take back a target like Seitch would take years to perfect, this is an 18 year old, she has clearly been preparing for this operation, or similar ones of its kind for the last few years, maybe all her life. I have no hesitation in saying that this individual would at one point in her life have been a child soldier. We must now do something to prevent further children being indoctrinated."

The Minister of Justice, on behalf of the King, has issued a notice to ask nations of the world to support action against child soldier At present Neu Uburzis have replied with what Minister Darren Bone has described as , "strangely dismissive language" while Miteravia have condemned the practice, a move welcomed by Mr.Bone

Our nation has no knowledge of how this disease has emerged, any connections to ourself is purely historic from a time long before the current regime. As such it is more than likely the illness remained dormant in places within the Iwi only emerging by chance. We apologise for the harm this may have caused your nation but at the time this disease was experimented on we were breaking no treaty. We destroyed all samples under our control and all were accounted for.

We hope this clarifies the situation.

Regards
Crown Prince Hadi

To:- All nations signatory to the Uppsala Convention

It has been brought to our attention that forces calling themselves "The Truthsayers", a paramilitary section of the Bene Gesserit faith, an organisation classed as terrorist by East Moreland yet recognised by many globally, have taken control of the city of Seitch in Kaitaine.

Furthermore it has been brought to our attention that among them are many young women aged around 18 years old who have graduated from Chapterhouse schools in Mountjoy, Achkaerin, Ui Cenneslaig and Himeyama in the last two years. This essentially means that they have been trained in military tactics by this institute, who recruits girls from the age of 4. It is therefore our determination that a breach of the Uppsala Convention has taken place, namely

2.1 No child shall be permitted to be a member of The Armed Forces (for the purpose of this document a Child is defined as someone being under the age at which voting is permitted, if voting is not permitted in a signatory nation it is the age at which someone can marry without parental consent)

Furthermore attention is drawn to the following article

3.1 Members of Militias shall be bound by the same Articles as Members of The Armed Forces.

We therefore conclude that by permitting "Truthsayers" to be educated in institutions within their country the Bene Gesserit faith are in effect training child soldiers in Achkaerin, Ui Cennesliag, Mountjoy and Himeyama. With this in mind we would request these nations shut down the Chapterhouse schools with immediate effect to ensure no more young girls are forced into a world of illegal action. Furthemore we request other nations to stop any Bene Gesserit female aged under 18 to not travel to these nation, nor to Kaitaine, in order to stop further Child Soldiers being prepared for this organisation.

We believe members of the Bene Gesserit faith's leadership, such as the self proclaimed "Duke" Niklaus Corrino be arrested for breaching the Uppsala Convention in the use of child soldiers.

May The Gods Watch Over You and Your Children Be Safe.
Darren Bone
East Moreland Minister of Justice.

After a half hour or so of helping move patients, rigging harnasses and helping vertical stretchers ascend the shaft the King was beginning to forget about the throb in the lower back, when Joshua asked about the Ironside family David realised he'd not seen his friend for such a long time. "We're smaller than we were" the King began, "I haven't see you in such a long time I can't actually recall when all this happened." He tried to smile, "Well the Kings Blood group, the cousin of Kyle Barren's little gang, they assassinated Joanna, got Hugo MacGregor at the same time, would have got me too if it hadn't been for Freya." The King lifted up his shirt showing the twisted mangled scar on his lower back from where the first of two rounds hit him, the second hitting him in the stomach, " Then me and Matilda hit a rocky patch....she wanted another child and I couldn't imagine going what we went through with Caspian again. I didn't want to know which of us had the wonky gene, but seems Joanna Osman carries it, so Matilda does to. When I found that out I...well lets just say I wasn't a great husband, Matilda still desperately wanted another child, I couldn't. So that was the end of that." David looked glum as they prepared to get themselves out the underground complex. "Good news is though Sophie found herself a Seaforthian boyfriend, although we did convert him to a Morelander, helped us win the Rugby World Cup too." David checked his and Joshua's ropes "She's joined the Air Force too, Freya married Alex, Rhiannon thinks she's a medieval knight one day, zookeeper the next and Matilda just let her buy a bloody pet fox." The King laughed as the pair of them were getting hauled up. "Out of all the animals it had to be the Achkaerin one."

As they reached the surface helicopters that had ferried the team in winched the wounded out while those capable of walking made their way down the hill to a flatter spot where the aircraft could land. The last one in was the one designated for the King who immediately went and spoke with the pilot before returning. "We've got two hours of fuel, we need thirty to get back to our carrier in the Illumic. So as I see it we can either take you there with us or we've time to go somewhere else. Your country, your choice" David said as he handed Joshua the pilots map, it had a cross showing where they were and a black circle, "apparently we can get anywhere in there" David pointed as they waited.

Tim didn't know much about his dinner partner, he'd done a bit of an internet search and found out she was some kind of mercenary mermaid woman , that intrigued him and so he'd put on his traditional red tunic, strapped on his sword and headed off. He got a few glances as he walked through the streets, the red cotton tunic belted at the waist, his jeans on underneath and a pair of skating shoes on his feet. Many people recognised him as Tim was one of Freestones most famous sons. He had no idea what the phrase "adequate clothing" meant, after all it was highly unlikely he'd turn up naked. He'd been here a few times, the Chopping Block, it prided itself on it's Game Pie, a traditional and popular dish consisting of usually at least three different animals and a good helping of gravy. The restaurant itself was all oak panels and shields hung on the wall, traditional clay pots served as glasses for everything but wine. As he pushed the door open the smokey aroma of meats roasting over an open fire hit his nose as well as the feeling of several people looking at him.

"Mr.Carpenter" the manager hurried over recognising the former Chief Councillor. "I had no idea you had a reservation.....do you have one? I'm sure it'll not be a problem." the man spoke quickly.

"I'm meeting someone, a Matilda Eidmeier, she booked the table" He glanced around, he'd found a few pictures online but wasn't sure if she'd look the same in real life, photos had in his view a habit of doing that. He followed the manager to the table keen to see why else hated Denman.

The comedically christened MacBadger airfield had been in effect now almost 48 hours and the refugees who had been hiding in the trees had almost all gone now their flights back to East Moreland for processing having left in the last few hours. The makeshift airfield however was now filling up with other equipment, medical supplies, extra firepower in the shape of a few LCV-2 and even two Chameleon tanks. The trees now housed a batch of white tents, arranged as best as they could in rows, a field kitchen and hospital had also been erected having been brought in on the flights that had come in empty.

The Red Legionnaires had now almost exclusively taken to patrolling the extended perimeter they'd established, the constant drone of high altitude aircraft a reassuring one above them. The teams would go out and wander the route some 2km away from the airfield, watch a few roads, set up OP's where they thought issues could arise and generally just be a set of eyes to give advance warning. There had been the odd appearance by the Khalinz Brigades but nothing beyond an old pick up with a machine gun mounted, and seeing as they weren't heading towards MacBadger they were simply watched out the area.

This vehicle however was different, it looked more professional, camoflauge painted, a proper weapons system and with a second following it looked like they knew what they were doing. Sgt.Thomas focused his scope on them and spotted a flag fluttering on the vehicle, a Lakhzovian one, "Hand of Emet" the Sergeant informed his team without taking his eyes off them from the ridge line. "We'll let them go as long as they don't head our way." Thomas didn't want to give away their position unless absolutley neccessary.

"I think that's why there here"  Saxby tapped Thomas on the shoulder and pointed down the valley, "3-4km below the summit of the hill" Sgt.Thomas put his eye to his scope and examined the scene as Saxby talked him onto the target.

"Bollocks" Thomas muttered, there was a gathering force of the Khalinz, some six technical vehicles, what looked like a mortar too. "Keep a watching brief." was all the Sergeant said as they maintained their watch. Just as expected the Hand of Emet came under fire from the Khalinz and the Morelanders watched as tracer rounds flew back and forth, the Khalinz rather inaccurate and the Hand of Emet pinned down. "We better take out the Khalinz" Thomas knelt up and checked his radio, "If they go through the militia we're next" with that he got on the radio and checked the various frequencies until he got the combat air patrols. "Charlie Alpha Papa, this is Red Four, request immediate air strike on Khalinz at grid 73438234" He got confirmation of a pair of multi-role jets coming in and around a minute later the aircraft rushed down the valley towards the foot of the hill, tracer flew up towards the lead one but at just above supersonic they'd have no chance of causing damage. The first aircraft opened up with canon as its RAPTOR pod relayed target information to the second following a minute behind, the tell tale sound of Brimstone missiles flying off the rail filled the air and a satisfying thud and ball of flame could be seen as one of the Khalinz Brigade vehicles was hit. The first aircraft had now lined itself up again and made a second pass, followed once more by the other aircraft using its relayed data to give a view of the site.  "They seem happy" Olly chuckled as he spotted the Hand of Emet cheering as the aircraft flew away.

"See if we can get in touch with the Lakhzovian's, tell them to keep the Hand of Emet clear of our perimeter, let them know we'll be conducting air strikes on all suspected Khalinz Brigade activity, they can stay south of us in that case." Thomas handed the radio to Saxby who set about trying to pass the instructions back via various channels.

The cold and the terrian where nothing new to the Morelanders, most of them had served in the Alps at various points and while the hike was not a walk in the park it wasn't difficult either for the team. David was rather enjoying it, for the first fifteen minutes then as the angle of the slope and the backpack kicked in his lower back began to ache, he did his best to not let it show but as Alex turned round he could see his friend wasn't comfortable. "You ok?" Alex asked as he fell into step next to his friend.

"You're supposed to be on point" Was all David said as the true trudged upwards, the look on Alex's face showed his comment was uncalled for. "Sorry, guess just not as used to this as I should be." he conceded as Alex yelled for a Red Legion Corporal to take point, the man jogging past them with an ease that made David feel even worse, just two years ago he'd have merrily ran up this hill too, but now just the walk was becoming uncomfortable.

"You're getting soft" Alex said, "Too much time in the Palace, not enough out and about. When was the last time you went running?" Alex asked knowing full well the answer. "You used to run everyday, used to think you could beat Sophie too.....you goon" the pair laughed. "You rattle around in that Palace on your own whenever Rhiannon's at her Mum's, its not healthy." It was true, there had been a time he was surrounded by family, now he only had Rhiannon half the time and it had made him spend most of his spare time alone. It was one of the reasons he'd wanted to come, one last "mission" a chance to do something rather than as he'd once called it "drive a desk".

Thankfully the pain in his lower back eased as the terrain flattened out and the Ranger station came into view. "Hold here" Redfern ordered as he and three Red's went forward to scout the area. "HELLO!" Alex yelled as he scanned the approach. "Carbondale this is the East Moreland Army" he yelled again looking for activity. "HELLO!" he yelled once more as he approached the Ranger station door, "My names Alex Redfern, East Moreland Army, I'm coming in" he added as he carefully tried the door.