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The Constitutional Monarchy of 5 Kingdoms of Britannia

Wardency wrote:SR RP

The CS Leipzig, considered to be the flagship of Wardency's biggest freight ship company Martin-Breland ASA, is painted in a stunning light blue and purple livery to match the company's theme. Captained by a highly decorated Wardish Admiral, Herr Victor Sunde, awarded for crushing the same rampant issue plaguing Eastern Usonean trade routes, pirates. Honorably discharged 26 years ago, he was invited to be the image of a merger between two companies that eventually formed Martin-Breland ASA and had been serving for them since.

Before fully retiring from the sea, Sunde was tasked with accompanying twenty-four men transporting the usual things like chemicals and agricultural goods on the familiar London Proper-Gottenberg route, along with a classified shipping container told by his superiors to simply list as "fragile historical artifact". He was also told to take excess care of the package inside, and it must be protected as a high priority in case of piracy.

The ship departs on a particularly stormy day at 6 PM from the outer port of London. With an estimated six to eight weeks of travel time, Sunde will get a long-lasting look at the sea before retirement. But at 1 AM, January 15th, 1740 nautical miles south of the Wardish Isle, still a third of the journey away, on the radar the vessel detects a small fishing boat sending an S.O.S signal. While warned of a similar method used by pirates in the region, Sunde ordered to approach the ship, seeing the extreme weather crashing on the vessel, thinking it could've flipped the ship. From the bridge, the crew members reported a small fishing boat, slightly tilted with a man fanatically waving his flashlight onto the side of the vessel.

The Leipzig approached the ship and 3 crewmembers went out to the deck and dropped a ladder. One of them raised their hand with 4 fingers, signaling there are four men on the boat. With three people on the deck, one remains on the ship and was dragging and carrying a bag on their shoulder, with a silhouette resembling a person, he explained that it is one of their crewmembers that had unfortunately passed away, breaking his neck while the waves almost drowned the boat. The bag and the four crewmembers were carried inside into the lower decks until 30 minutes later a power outage alert was triggered, accompanied by gunshots.

As issued by Martin-Breland, all ships operating under the company were given a dozen rifles, in response to the British-Madruejian trade war a few months back and its use of pirates as proxies. Captain Sunde immediately sounded the alarm and called the Royal Wardish Coastguards, before arming himself and getting his remaining crewmembers to a safe room on the ship. In the words of First Mate Joakim Mickelson, a survivor, Sunde heroically died while killing one of the pirates and distracting them from the safe room where seven of the twenty-four crewmembers were hiding. They remained there until the Coastguards boarded the vessel and searched for them, by then, the pirates have escaped with their goal on a lifeboat equipped with an engine. Seventeen of the crew members along with their captain were brutally and mercilessly killed.

Strangely, out of all the valuable cargo of rare minerals, chemicals, electronics worth hundreds of millions on the black market, none of them were stolen except the contents of the classified container. Martin-Breland ASA has yet to have commented on the mystery surrounding the container, claiming to protect sensitive information regarding their customers. Captain Sunde was awarded the Royal Wardish Order of St. Koskinen posthumously and was buried along with his sixteen men.

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After the burial of Captain Sunde, attended by Wardish Officials, including His Majesty Gustaf and Chancellor Kristofer Cohaagen. They held a meeting at the residence of the Chancellor in the early afternoon.

"Goddamn pirates, taking both my things and my people. Sunde, a great man, the old bastard used to be my admiral, always there to yell at me..." Gustaf tells his short backstory while pouring a glass of Scotch.

Before Cohaagen could mutter a word, Gustaf follows quickly: "Speaking of my things, Kristoff, they stole it, they know what's inside, they know what's it is capable of."

"Yes, I understand, the Intelligence Ministry is doing their best, we have already tracked them down to Samaria, their Coastguards found a lifeboat on a beach..."

"I trust that our Ministries are more than able to find and hunt down these people, but what I can't trust is them not finding them in time to stop these people meddling around with the v-... container's contents, either they're going to sell it to the black market or even worse, actually using it."

"May I ask but what's in it that's so important?"

Gustaf glares back at Cohaagen, sipping the glass, deepens his voice, and replied: "If you ask anything question relating to that, I'm afraid I that the Deputy Chancellor will be taking your position, after your death. All you can and are allowed to know is that it is involved in our little plan."

The conversation was interrupted by the ringing of the Red Phone, Gustaf allowed Cohaagen to pick it up. The other line was speaking English with a slight Scottish accent, a tone that Gustaf can't fully comprehend but somehow Cohaagen was able to understand and reply to.

"What was that? Why does the British want to be involved in our business?" Gustaf, still in confusion and slightly intoxicated from the Scotch.

"The Britannians appear to know the pirates' base, somehow miles ahead of us, it's in Fusea, they're requesting us for a joint operation to hunt them down." Cohaagen answers while pouring himself a glass.

"Do you think that they...know?" Now with more questions than answers, raising an eyebrow.

Cohaagen clinks Gustaf's glass and sips: "No, it doesn't seem so, but I think that this is our chance to retrieve whatever thing that the pirates stole from you, maybe we agree and send in our own operatives to get it back, and secretly from the British while they assist us."

Gustaf smirks and finishes his drink.

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Through a secret phone line directly from the office of the prime minister, the Royal Wardish government, an agreement was reached. The Wardish Special Forces will send seventeen of their operatives on this joint mission, the only request was that the British government provide the means of transport and keep details of the mission a secret.

OOC Notes: Don't mind me mixing in a bit of story to make it more "tied together", just go along ;P.

SR RP

The Minster of war and the Prime minster where more then happy to accept the deal, they however had also requested to deploy a strike team of 15 themselves to either support wardish objective and ensure the termination or capture of the pirate leadership. The HMS Radialities a destoryer would be sent to Wardish to collect the operatives and act as there base of operation for the mission.
A secret communication was sent to the wardish government to this effect.

With that done it came to the admiralty to divert forces for this operations in the end they decided to go for a battle group from the 4th fleet. This would be 20 destroyers, including a carrier and a battleship. This force should overwhelm any force left in the area and neutralize any pirate shore defenses while making any speedy sea escape impossible.

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