The Island Game

[cardgame]

TSS has rebooted the guidance systems of all its missiles. They have been reset to "RANDOM".

Also, all our missiles now have an automatic chipset embedded inside that will change the guidance system to a major city of Trichomedia when the guidance system is changed to anything other than "RANDOM"

 

[choxorn]

What if we didn't change the guidance system?

 

[cardgame]

What if we didn't change the guidance system?

Then it will give you some more incentive to kill whoever changed it.

 

[choxorn]

Eh, we'll just change it back, I guess.

 

[CivRulesAll]

Update on the F/K Titan:
One very minor weakness has been found and can be exploited. On the inner shell below the minor plasma cannon is an explosive that can disable mobility of the Titan. However, as it is inside, it almost cannot be utilized.
T-250 model updated for faster mobility.

 

[Stylesrj]

How about missiles that don't use guidance systems? Just aim and fire. Can't hack something that has no software. Sure, they may miss, but that's why you build a hundred of them.

With that in mind, the Giga Fortress Task Force launches several hundred of these missiles from the fleet at the location of the F/K Titan. They should be there in a few hours. Try and hack that!

 

[KaiserElectric]

This is a message from the newly established regime inhabiting the nation of Technantis.

Technantis is dead.

The Scaler virus has succesfully wiped out the population of Technantis. The high command is dead, and only a few citizens of Technantis have survived. This dishonorable transgression of humanity by the Scalers is the last straw, and we have arrived to smite the world and the galaxy of these vicious aliens. We will now inhabit the abandoned nation and make it our own. We fight for the side of Honor, and for no one else. We will never rest until the Scaler menace is nothing more than a distant memory.

This has been a message from the Valgas Empire.

The Valgas Empire

Leader: Emperor Mao Jiheng II
Government: Emperor
Military Strength: High-tech

Spoiler :

(Similar to Empire of the Rising Sun)

The Valgas Empire is the new nation inhabiting the former nation of Technantis. The Empire was a spacefaring empire who spent much of their spacefaring abilities to pursue their hated enemies, the Scalers. The Valgas Empire is essentialy the antithesis to the Scalers; honorable, dignified, and fiercely loyal. They invested their research in superbly effective (and ethical) military hardware and civilian merchandise, and surving Technantis civilians have given the Empire access to some of Technantis' technology, although the location of the Arbiter bluepints and the Sledgehammer Class battleship blueprints are still unknown. The Empire is incredibly friendly to nations that it respects and will be your ally to the end. Just don't betray them; they take revenge VERY seriously.

Oh, and on a side note, the Steurmer is still at sea, so they should get a nice surprise on their return home.

 

[Perfection]

Xox Xooklia manages to regain consciousness after a Turkey-induced coma.

 

[choxorn]

Trichomedia sends messages to all nations asking if they're still there.

 

[Stylesrj]

Atomicpunkeria is still here. Due to some temporal warp, the unguided missiles are still heading towards that F/K Titan thing, yet the Giga Fortress and the fleet is back at port.

 

[Tee Kay]

The newly-promoted Scaler General in charge of the occupation of Selachima (the former has been killed by the Terminators) had revised its occupation policies, which he described as "inscalene". The General sympathizes with the locals and decided to join forces with the Selachiman Resistance against the Terminators and hardline Scaler generals. The General declared Selachima independent of the Scaler Empire, and ended mind-control over the population. The Selachimans, with the help of these renegade Scaler forces, triumphed, exterminating every last one of the Terminators and forcing the rest of the Scalers to retreat. The renegade Scaler General and his troops were granted amnesty in Selachima and the Second Republic of Selachima was proclaimed.

The Scalers brought with them highly advanced technologies, including space travel, medical and bioengineering technologies. Scaler crafts and the Terminators were salvaged and features incorporated into the next generation of Selachiman military hardware, although all sentient fully AI-controlled machines are banned by the Selachiman Constitution. Due to the Scaler virus outbreak Selachimans now have both human and Scaler DNA in them, and they have both human and Scaler physical abilities.

Second Republic of Selachima
Leader: Chief Consul Idris Sool
Government: Federal Republic

 

[choxorn]

Upon hearing the news, Trichomedian forces return to Trichomedia, and leave behind a statue called "The Statue of A Bit More Liberty" as a gift. It totally will not come alive and wreak havoc.

 

[Tee Kay]

Upon hearing the news, Trichomedian forces return to Trichomedia, and leave behind a statue called "The Statue of A Bit More Liberty" as a gift. It totally will not come alive and wreak havoc.

It now stands next to the Left Leaning Tower, the I Can't Believe It's Not Porcelain Pagoda, and the On The Way To Becoming Great Pyramid.

 

[KaiserElectric]

The Valgas Empire has been pleasently surprised with the valor shown by the Scaler General. The Emperor has recognized the independence of the SRoS, and has offered to send financial aid and workers to help rebuild the nation.

The Valgas Empire has also announced a national emergency. Admiral Nasagi and the T.N.S. Stuermer appear to be missing. The ship is somewhere around the Selachiman coastline, probably heading back to Technantis mainland as we speak. The ship must be found before it reaches the Empire, because the crew of the ship will need to be vaccinated against the Scaler virus before it enters the nation, or the crew could suffer the same fate as the rest of Technantis. The ship also contains a dead circuit that tells whether or not the ship is dead should there be a communication breakdown. The Valgas Empire has asked all nations to assist in the search, but they have asked that they should be the first to meet the crew.

 

[Tee Kay]

The Selachiman Navy has been dispatched to find the ship.

Selachimans are now immune from the Scaler virus. Scientists studying their blood have made an effective vaccine against the virus which Selachima is willing to distribute to all nations.

 

[Perfection]

Xox Xooklia has adopted skintight leather pants as the official national pants.

 

[KaiserElectric]

The emperor is perturbed by the Xox Xooklian's choice in pants.

In response to the Selachiman vaccine to the Scaler virus, the emperor has suggested that scientists from Valgas and Selachima work together to discover a cure for the disease as well.

 

[Tee Kay]

To neutralize the virus in Selachimans, the Scalers did in fact develop a cure. We'll pass this around to other nations as well.

We'll allow Xox Xooklians in Selachima to wear the new national pants, but will not take any responsibility for cases of mistaken identity.

 

[cardgame]

TSS took a hiatus, and is feeling a little loopy. The generals are drawing up plans now for missiles that go into loop-de-loops and endless spirals to maximize the chance of hitting a target!

+10% missile accuracy
-20 respect from intellectuals for the foolhardiness of TSS high command

In other news, TSS has announced not one, but two national religions! The Church of Google and the Disciples of the FSM are now opening branches in the capital and other major cities.

 

[choxorn]

Noticing the Terminators are mysteriously gone, Trichomedia fires some missiles at their last known location just in case.