Roleplay > Diplomacy and Events

The Emirs Future

(1/2) > >>

Wadden:


PRIVATE COMMUNICATION TO KING HEYDAR
Over the last few months the health of my father, Sultan Yahya IV, has slowly been getting worse. It is now confirmed by our doctors that he is likely to die within the next week. Under our system of government an election shall take place that will see each of the 25 tribes cast a vote for who they wish to become the next Sultan. As things stand I have secured the nomination of my own tribe, the Talafha and our tribe has secured the support of at least 17 of the tribes meaning that I am to become the next Sultan. Our two nations have, under my father, enjoyed close ties and I hope this may long continue. I write though to request help as we suspect there may potentially be a handful of individuals who may attempt to use force to subvert the outcome. I would ask therefore that the military of Royal Seleucid covertly enter our nation and stand ready to support me should my prediction prove correct. At present no one outside our tribe is aware of my father's impending death and so we request that you maintain things this way.

I hope that I can rely on your support.

Prince Jamshaid

DaveIronside:

To - Prince Jamshaid

I consider your father a dear friend and should we be able to do anything to help his medical condition we shall provide it. In regards to the succession to the Sultanate it is our hope that this can be conducted smoothly. In the past Seleucid forces have helped secure more remote areas of Waddan and will stand ready to do so again. Over the coming days I shall have members of our armed forces insert clandestinely into Waddan and establish a line of communications with your own command. We shall ensure that should the need arise we can support your forces in maintaining order.

We wish you and your father all the best

King Heydar of Royal Seleucid.

DaveIronside:
The Seleucid Minining Company had been present in Waddan since the two nations began their relationship several years ago. When the workers were informed that a pocket of gas had potentially been discovered there was the natural expectation that a significant number of workers from Seleucid would come in and assess whether it was viable. The company had a small airfield that allowed them to bring the diamonds and precious metals back without a complicated overland journey and this made it easy to esnure that 300 Seleucid soldiers had been brought in with their equipment. The workers had been paid to stay at home and so it would take a while for the military build up to get noticed. At the same time the Waddan Blue project had brought an "expo" of Seleucid engineering into the country and while hundreds if not thousands of boxes had been brought in to showcase products and goods very few of them were actually full of engineering products and instead were full of military equipment. It meant that around 800 Seleucid soldiers had infiltrated the country and unbeknown to the Waddanites the aircraft carrier Epiphanes its escort and the Balas with 600 more troops on sat off the coast. When the time came they'd be ready. 

Wadden:
Every since those poisoned mushrooms the Sultan had got progressively worse. The local medics had been replaced by those from Royal Seleucid but still despite world class health care it was clear the Sultan was on borrowed time. Unlike many monarchies the tribes of Waddan did not practice inheritance by age, they instead picked the one best suited to taking the family forward. Sultan Yahya had been very clear on his wishes for the past two years. It would not be his eldest son, Fadil who would inherit the job of leadership but instead one of his younger sons, Jamsheid. He was an educated man and his father believed him the best to lead a nation in the 21st Century. Now the sons had been dispatched around the tribes to try and enforce their loyalty. The vast majority had found this an easy task but a few sensed some tribes may chance their arm at ousting the Talafha tribe. Jamsheid sent members of the tribes militia to meet with the Seleucid commanders on the ground. They would help the Seleucid infiltrate the capital Sabhā so when the time came they would be able to help secure the succession.

DaveIronside:
Captain Masoud Attar had one of the most challenging parts of this operation. He and six men of his unit had to duty of infiltrating Sabhā. It was in truth quiet straight forward. The city was small but had a constant coming and going of merchant caravans. He had selected his six men for one simple reason, they could ride horses well. It was a key skill in Waddan and it would perhaps seem out of place any man being unable to ride well. They had ridden in with twelve horses in total, it would give the impression that had come to sell the others and perhaps do some business. They had tipped off the guards of the cities main gate that they were coming and the saddle bags that to the other travellers would contain item to barter with, provisions and perhaps a few other matters carried weapon parts, body armour and various other items of military equipment. They had requisitioned a house close to the Sultan's Palace. If everything went to plan it would be these seven men who would move into the Palace and secure the Sultan's family, especially the women and have a helicopter from the Epiphanes come in and pick them up. The rest of the Seleucid military in the nation would secure the approaches to the city and alongside the Seleucid military, which they hoped stayed loyal, begin trying to ensure the voting process went as expected.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page