Overtures and other threats

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Amonaki

5th may 1640


"Well, sir, look!" said Admiral Pokotar, as a tinny beat began to play, as the fleet appeared, though, they heard a loud whirring noise. They looked up and saw five fast approaching dots coming in,

Moments later, five harriers shot across the skies and carried out a bomb burst aerial maneuver, causing the crowd to cheer and go 'woah!", as a loud spectacle of this scale had never been seen or heard of before, with the planes proceeding to o some degree of aerial stunts and flyovers over Amanoki, much to the cheers of the crowd even as the loud noise got slightly grating.

Moments later, the small European fleet pulled into the bay, with the servicemen standing on the decks at regular intervals and saluting, all the while, the British naval hymn "hearts of oak ' blared away.

"You know, Pokotar, that must be a different fleet. That carrier ship was a lot smaller than I remember." said Lord Kaios, as he looked at the Commando Carrier, noting the lack of a second citadel like the first one.

"Or, it could be an auxiliary carrier, or a specialised ship. Well, it serves the same purpose as a carrier anyway." said the admiral, as the harriers did a loop de loop in the sky, to the cheers of the crowd down below.

"Well, I wonder what that ship with the giant red cross on the side is..." trailed Pokotar, as he saw Lord Kaios deep in thought.

The Europeans were busy getting to know other members of the third civilization region, and were able to sway many on their side. If their prior diplomatic delegations did not convince them, than this event sure as hell would convince everyone of their technical prowess.

Their baseline HK416 was far superior to their Maseleus smoothbore musket. Chances were the Clarkson rifle would not have much effect either in the technical race.

They could not trigger the Europeans, then if not they would lose, and then incentivise the colonies to rebel, and then Parlpadia would fall !

"Lord Kaios, is everything alright?" asked the vice admiral in concern, seeing the stormy look pass over his face.

"Ah, no, it is nothing, let us go have a look at the ship." said Kaios, as they left the pavilion and walked towards the now docking medical ship ENS Marie Curie.

Foreign affairs department

1000 hours

4th may 1640

"Ah, ambassadors, a due pleasure. Surely you should know not to keep a lady waiting!" said Remille, as the two ambassadors walked into the room, sighing.

"Well Lady Remille, why could we not have taken this through lord Kaios? I thought he was our ambassador."

"Well, this came from the top, as the personal orders from the Emperor dictate I am to carry out this task!" said Remille, as the ambassadors sat down.

"Now, behold the power of parlpadia." she said simply, as the crystal ball in front of her began to play a video of sorts.

It showed a few ships of the line mounting a broadside against a few Fennese junks. Like historical record, the ships closed to point blank range and fired about fifty two cannonballs at the junks. Moments later, they fired off a few congreve rockets that shattered the dummies onboard the deck, as the Fennese junks sank further.

"As you barbarians can see, we are not a trivial power like Louria, so, behold, the power of the Parlpadian oversight fleet! '' she said, as she reached for the papers. Oddly enough, instead of reacting strongly, the two ambassadors simply looked... bored?

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