From: Kingdom of Hungary
To: Spain
Do non-Spanish ships need reason to travel through heavily traversed seas? Spanish warships haven't shadowed and destroyed any other ships that have passed through said sea routes, as far as we know. Why would our reason for being there matter...or better yet, why would we need a reason for being there?
As for your ambassadors, the crimes they are accused of are promoting dissidence and disorders, coercion, and espionage, and they are to be tried. We will notify you of the results of the trials when they are complete. This is a just reason to hold the Spanish ambassadors. Spain however, holds Hungarian ambassadors hostage, and will punish them, not for crimes they commit, but in retaliation of any ruling which Spain finds unjust. This hostage taking is nothing less than barbaric and should be stopped immediately.
The Kingdom of Hungary has had enough of Spain's threats and saber-rattling. Your attempts to instigate war have failed, and will continue to fail should they continue. We don't want any more of your hot air.
OOC: Double A, please don't make spam comments regarding in-game events...especially ones that are easily mistaken for IC comments.
To: Hungary
From: Empire of Holy Spain
You seem to forget that the ships that were on the Sea of Alborán were
warships, and all the other ships that you refer to are merchant ships (we can now add amnesia to the list of illnesses you suffer). Had your ships wanted to cross the Strait of Gibraltar, they could have done so easily by
actually moving through them. However, your ships remained in the Sea of Alborán, with no actually ostensible reason, and as such we had to act on the supposition that their intentions were bellicose. We are sure that, had our ships gone into the Adriatic Sea and anchored near your coast, you would be down our throats demanding to know why those ships were there.
In regards to the ambassadors, we are glad to know the truth: it is impressive how good you are in the field of accusing others of
trumped-up charges. Dissidence, disorders, coercion, and espionage? The first three were most likely caused by your people, and the latter probably amounted to nothing more than finding what was happening in Hungary, especially given that you were, until last year, an unofficial ally of the United Kingdom. It looks like that no nation's ambassadors are safe in Hungary, given how easily the Spanish ambassadors were accused of unfounded charges just when they were trying to leave the nation to save their lives.
We are offering you a perfectly good deal: if your kangaroo court ends up (as we are sure they will) declaring the Spanish diplomatic mission guilty of those trumped-up charges, you can easily send them to Austria. Once that happens, we will allow the Hungarian diplomatic mission to leave Spain, because, unlike you, we keep our deals.
You accuse us of saber-rattling? It has always been you who made the aggressive action, you who attacked, you who threatened. Spain has stated repeated times that it has no intention to declare war on Hungary. The only other thing related to war Spain has stated was that, should Hungary commit the mistake of declaring war on Spain, Hungary would regret it.
To: The World (minus Hungary)
From: Empire of Holy Spain
We are grateful to those nations that have supported us in these difficult moments.
Also, we would like to point out the chain of events that led all of us to this moment:
- Hungary sends a fleet of warships, containing five Norwich-class ships, which are currently the most powerful ships their navy has, to the Sea of Alborán, in or near Spanish territorial waters.
- The Hungarian fleet remains in the Sea of Alborán without warning about their reason. This is not the action of a fleet that is going to be there for a peaceful reason.
- In answer to a potential threat to shipping passing through the Sea of Alborán, as well as to the Spanish coast, the Spanish Home Fleet set sails and steam towards the place where the Hungarian ships are.
- Upon meeting with the Hungarian fleet, there is a stand-off between the two fleets.
- After a ship opens fire (our sailors say that it was a Hungarian vessel who made the first shot, but we are still unsure about it) the Hungarians attack the Spanish fleet.
- The battle ends with six Spanish and eleven Hungarian ships in the depth of the sea.
Hungary is trying to pin the blame of this incident on Spain. They seem to forget that it was them that instigated it, by sending their ships into (or near) Spanish territorial waters and near the Spanish coasts.
This is the list of things Hungary could have easily done to make sure this thing did not happen:
- The Hungarian government could have decided to keep their warships at their Hungarian ports. They sent them.
- The Hungarian government could have sent a message to the Spanish ambassador, stating what they planned to do, so that the message was sent later to the government. They did not do this.
- The Hungarian government could have told the Hungarian ambassador to tell the Spanish government what the ships were going to do. They did not do this.
- The Hungarian fleet's admiral could have sent a message to the Spanish authorities at the coast of Spain to tell them what they planned to do. They did not do this.
- When they met the Spanish fleet, they could have left back for their homeport. They did not do this.
- When they met the Spanish fleet, they could have sent a message to the Spanish fleet's admiral, telling him what they were doing there. They did not do this.
Instead, they fought the Spanish fleet.
From this series of events, it is quite clear that the Hungarian fleet's intentions were aggressive, pretty much the opposite of what they claim. Will you listen to us, or will you believe the lies spouted by the Hungarians?
