Northern Utopia

Veoannia wrote:

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Aughiev, Northeastern Ward
Ecaterina-Gavril Air Force Base

Arriving at the location, a man dressed in a suit and red star lapel pin with a yellow hammer and sickle in the middle accompanied by two high-ranking military officers and four fully geared soldiers enter the grand room everyone else was in. Sitting down, the two officers stood behind him as the four soldiers stood by near the diplomat and the officers with rifles in hand. The diplomat set his briefcase beside his chair as he prepared himself for the chaos that would in all probability unfold in the very room he was in.

Looking around the room, Lyaksandra Adamovich took a glance at Monroe finally looking at the man they'd been fighting against. Pulling out a mint gum from his pocket, he chewed it to lower his stress and make his breath smell fresh. Moving his eyes away from Monroe, Lyaksandra turn to face the podium as he waited for the meeting to commence.

Lyaksandra wrapped his chewed gum in a paper napkin before standing up from his chair and discarding it. Sitting back down, Lyaksandra took a sip from a bottle of water as he fiddled with his pen to pass the time.
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Official statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Novoroyska.

After a brief but deadly war with many dead and much of former Veoannia in ruins, the SFRN has managed to start peace negotiations and meetings relating to an armistice between The Socialist People's Republic of Veoannia and The National Republic of Veoannia. Furthermore, the negotiations will also deal with the situation concurrently present in Clariași-Veoannia and the Astanai Republic of Hongrevia-Astana. Following this, the usage of nuclear weapons by Novoroyska was necessary to begin the process of a white peace between the two Veoannish states and prevent any more deaths relating to this conflict.

Further information regarding the negotiations will be made public after the meeting between the Socialist People's Republic of Veoannia, the National Republic of Veoannia, the Socialist Democratic Republic of Clariași-Veoannia, The Socialist Federal Republic of Novoroyska, and The Federal Socialist Republic of Astana-Anders finishes.

-Viktor Mikhailovich, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Novoroyska
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The Donghai Times
Efforts Bear Fruit in the Souther Persia and Panhandle

Imperial schemes of rejuvenation have borne fruit. The Imperial Court’s campaigns to bring prosperity to the lands of The Achaemenids that are handed under Fengese wing. It has seen promising results under nurturing care. Most infrastructure has returned to its former grace, and electricity and water is once again flowing through the cities. Within the Grand Iraj, the Temporal Lord of South Persia, Lord Chuan, states that economic activity can likely resume soon as the city creaks back to activity. The Empress assures that the Imperium shall do their greatest to bring prosperity, to ensure great wealth under the golden wing of Feng.

Huazhese Agricultural Schemes Reach Completion

The fertile lands of Huazheng, an overseas territory of the Fengese Imperium, shall finally be put to full use once more. The Minister of the Treasury states that “the mismanagement and poorer decisions of the former regime is corrected and the farms shall finally give luxuriant and sustainable harvest once more”. It is estimated by most exalted scholars that urban development shall also take place with the rising importance of the vast Huazhese region. Huazhese cities shall see an increase of emigrating peoples in the coming years, and all eyes are on the Court to see how they manage such emigration.

Abolishment of the Term, Commons

The term, commoner, to address the peoples of Feng has been hereby abolished. Within the brocade scroll of command, it states that “By Imperial Decree, the good people of Feng Dynasty shall be named commoners no longer, and shall always be named the good people of Feng and other forms of address similar”. Though a common form of address in the past, the Imperial Court has noted that such use of terms would be greatly offending to Fengese citizens, and so has abolished such terminologies.

Dákanda Municipality, Dáken

The men and women fighting for the freedom they deserve have got into the most serious trouble they have ever been. Their heroic blood is already filling the greatest lakes of Hurona, and there seems to be no end in the future. The blood of these great warriors are already overflowing, and it can be seen in the morale of those who are still standing around with the mindset of avenging their dead comrades, no matter the cost. The Ésturial village in Dákanda Municipality, the home municipality and birthplace of all Dákenians, is the very last standing point with no shoreline, that is under the Dákenian control. All the rest of the forces are either dead, or left this underpowered and low-supplied but courageous battalion all alone.

The town of 2,000 people is now completely abandoned, if few outposts and bases built by the fighters of freedom are excluded. The town is attacked from 4 sides. The main forces of the oppressors have blocked the 3 main routes that would lead out of the municipality, while the special operation unit bastards hunt down the fleeing fighters in the forests without mercy. The town has 3 smaller bases. One of them are built inside a grocery store, which has already ran out of supplies. The second base is located inside an abandoned town hall, and the third base was just a smaller lookout point inside a two-story house in north edge of the town. Then there was the main headquarters standing up on the slopes of the town. It used to be a cattle farm, but now it's surrounded by two layers of walls, the outer one built of sandbags and scrapmetal, while the inner side is mostly just remainings of an old brick wall that used to surround the whole area. There was two buildings, a cattle barn and an old storage building. The storage building was built of wood while the newer cattle barn was made of stone. It was a miracle these two buildings and the main base was still standing, because the area was mercilessly bombed by the oppressors for 3 days straight. Most likely they thought everyone either fled or died, but no, they were still there, fighting till the last man, because they had no other choice.

Sergeant Ésyla Norledin observes the ruined town with his binoculars from a small hole in the sandbag wall. Behind him was his comrade and brother Grelia Norledin, trying to clean his sniper rifle with a wet, dirty piece of cloth. He's sitting utterly exhausted, which can be seen from his best efforts to keep his eyes open. Many other soldiers are either inside sleeping or scavenging for food.

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Ésyla: You still alive, pal'?

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Grelia hums quietly, which is a good enough answer for Ésyla. He takes his binoculars again and observes the hilly fields and forests behind the town. He sees at least 2 squads of unidentified soldiers. Ésyla's automatic response was to take his radio out and make an announcement for every squad in the town.

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Ésyla: This is Sergeant Norledin speaking, at least 2 squads of enemy forces coming from the forest...

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Everyone in the other side of the radio of the sergeant could hear the fatigue and despondency in his voice. Ésyla knows that this is likely another large wave, and could very well be the last one for them. Ésyla wipes his forehead with his arm and leans forward on a pile of sandbags gathered in a box shape, ready to be used in further fortifying their positions. Completely silent, he walked out of the small maze of sandbags and throws his binoculars to Grelia, who had more important things to do than react to sergeant's offer to observe the terrain. Ésyla walked exhausted, not breaking his eye contact with the ground. Ésyla and the squads inside the base have not physically given up, but nothing can be said from their mental strenght. They know that they have no other choice but die surrendering, or die fighting. The intense gunfighting started once again in the town signifying that One of the outposts are already wiped out.

Ésyla opens the cranky wooden door leading to the storage building. He went inside and was greeted by a white fluffy puppy. Ésyla has named it Aquna, and he's been Ésyla's and his squad's companion since the last week. Ésyla knew that Aquna should not have the same fate as everyone else, but they both had so close bond that Ésyla couldn't even think of letting it go. Even if he really wanted that the puppy would survive, he just couldn't. He began tearing from even thinking about a picture where Aquna is just sitting still behind the closed gate to the main base, waiting for Ésyla to let him back. He knows that this would happen, but if Aquna stays in the base, Aquna would most likely get killed. Just looking at Aquna's fluffy adorable face and shiny puppy eyes made Ésyla collapse on the ground, sobbing as he attempted to pet the few weeks old puppy. Ésyla didn't want to give the same fate to Aquna as he himself had to face when his own father was captured by the oppressors and never returned home. One of the soldiers who had enough energy left to stand up and check out Ésyla was sweeping his tears, feeling sympathy to Ésyla. He was just a human afterall. The soldiers knew all Ésyla wanted now is some space, and no one was willing to disturb him at a moment like this.

The gunshots intensifies in the town, and Ésyla's radio has something to say.

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Radio: Sergeant Ésyla! The town hall is under heavy fir-

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The radio goes suddenly static at the same time as a massive explosion could be heard coming from the town. Ésyla didn't have any time to react as one of the soldiers smashed the wooden door wide open, gasping for air.

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Soldier: S-Sergeant... The town hall is gone...

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Ésyla said nothing, but stood up and let the puppy go. Aquna stood still, staring at Ésyla and patiently waiting for him to cuddle him.

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Soldier: ... There might be no remaining forces in the town anymore... This might be our last stand-

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Suddenly two loud cracks could be heard from bullets hitting the old wooden wall. Terrified from sudden bangs, Aquna storms to safety. When Ésyla turns around, he sees the soldier lying on the floor with a fatal shot on the head. Ésyla instantly reacts by dragging the lifeless body to safety thinking he's still alive. He slapped the soldier on the cheeks and tried to shake him in order to wake up, but it was no use. The nearby combat medic walked at him and looked at the seeable hole in the soldier's head.

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Medic: Sergeant... Sergeant. Sergeant! He is dead.

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Utterly demoralised, Ésyla lets off from the corpse, staring at nothingness. While other soldiers in the room looked at disgust as one of their squadmates lie dead still and can't be recovered, Ésyla was in utter shock for several minutes. As the alarm siren in the base began ringing, which was a sign that the base was under attack, everyone rushed outside to their positions ready to defend the base with their very last energy. Out of sudden, Grelia speedwalked inside the storage and saw Ésyla just sitting there.

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Grelia: ... Everything okay... Brother...?

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Those were probably the first words Grelia said for weeks. Ésyla looked at Grelia with his half-dead stare, still understanding that Grelia was deeply worried.

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Ésyla: Grelia... Brother Grelia... You're promoted to Sergeant...

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Grelia looked at Ésyla deeply shocked and confused. The promotion was so out of sudden that he couldn't even react at it in any way. Ésyla barely could stand up, but was somehow able to. He loosened his vest and dropped it in front of Ésyla. He dropped his rifle too, and walked towards the back door.

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Grelia: Brother, what are you-

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Ésyla: No. You're promoted. Please, fight till the end and actually be the brave one. It seems like I can't. I'm too afraid to fight. I'm simply just too bad person... I couldn't even safe my father... I... I just can't...

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Ésyla took Aquna who was hiding behind a small box and hugged him. He carried the puppy outside with him. Grelia was completely still, starting to understand what's going on. He wanted to stop his brother, but his body refused to go even one step closer to Ésyla. He could hear a loud bang from a pistol. Couple seconds he hears another one and could clearly hear a louder thump. Grelia couldn't hold his tears. He took Ésyla's assault rifle and the ammunition from the dropped vest. He took a deep breath and opened the front door, reloading his gun before entering the bloody battlefied that appears to be underway inside the walls. Dying fighting was Ésyla's last wish, and Grelia will not let his brother down.

KERGUZNAM NEWSPAPER - 2/7/22

BREAKING NEWS: ONE OF THE 2 LAST STANDS OF INSURGENTS DESTROYED

The July Offensive which was initiated soon after the end of June Offensive by Huronan-Jazkovnian-Quinerian-Aernaebi-Kuzian Forces, saw another great accomplished mission yesterday, as the eastern pocket of insurgents were succesfully destroyed by the united forces. Not only that, the last off-coast stronghold of the insurgents were finally destroyed after 14 days of brutal fighting in historic Dákanda municipality. The social media today was filled by the pictures of once a beautiful, picturesque town utterly burned down by the insurgents. Over 10,000 insurgents who surrendered in the eastern pocket have been taken in custody for numerous war crimes they have done during the war.

KYRZIS ONIN SEASON UNDERWAY - SEASON PREDICTIONS

The volleyball season has finally started, as the X, IX, VIII, VII & VI leagues are already on their way. The predictions of this season were made by former Volleyball player Sjyllan Kizzen.

In X league, the top 2 who are most likely going to get promoted this season are most likely Antai Sharks and Siemen Ballers. According to Kizzen, these teams have easily the greatest teams on paper, plus Antai Sharks recently made a great deal when they bought a veteran Serbatijan player Desimir Novaković, which is most likely the game-changer on the whole squad. The next 3 who are also likely to steal the promotion place may be Toisman VBC, Strutes or Pinkies. Each of these teams showed very good volleyball game throughout last season, and are likely to put a good fight this year. Meanwhile, Kizzen speculates that the 2 relegated teams are going to be Bad Guys VBC and KO Vilezano. While Bad Guys are facing a crippling economic problem regarding to wages and season payment, KO Vilezano faced bankrupty last season, and somehow managed to build the club in the very last moments thanks to the civil support. Still, KO Vilezano has the worst squad in the club history, which will negatively affect their attempts to keep the club alive.

The IX league is much harder one to predict. Each team is pretty much equally good when looking at the rosters. However, the Gladiator VBC stands out of them all with Sacrizna VBC following closely behind in terms of coaching. Both teams are having excellent coaching that could be compared even to the VI levels, which most likely is the biggest reason we'll see these two taking the top 2. However, recently formed VBC Kuzikstania, one of the most rapidly rising clubs in Kyrzis Onin history, could also surprise with a double promotion. The relegation teams may be either Zeveta Lions, Antai VBC, Sharks, or Outlaws. "It's still very hard to see big differences, so these are mostly just gut feelings.", says Kizzen.

While IX league teams had minor differences, the VIII teams have almost none. Almost all of these teams are recently formed, quickly growing clubs, and the only reason they're this low level is that there's just too many of them. Kizzer said that literally any team in VIII can be either promoted or relegated, but he has feelings towards the newcomers VBC Oqulu and Karagon Foxes. "Karagon Foxes is the interesting one, as they are supposed to take over Karagon United's place and revive the volleyball culture in Karagon, while VBC Oqulu tries the exact same thing with Botelan VBC," says Kizzen.

VII has way more variation compared to IX and VIII. Sudsjuqqa Badgers, Kezer-Paqan Lookouts, Jyzalle Braves and Joqensia Black Jackets all have very good roster and expanded coaching network, which make them the most likely ones to fight for the 2 promotion spots. The potential of Sheriff Tomistan is also not to be looked down, as they could possibly make bigger surprise than we could even believe, or they could mess it all up and get relegated. Sutnean Lumberjacks, newcomers Rykeno VBC, Kroqaniste Titans and Bunnami Bombers are most likely ones to have just one focus: Don't get relegated.

The VI league is cut in those who fight for promotion, those who stay in the middle, and to those who flee from relegation. The most likely teams to get promoted this year are out of doubt Team Galactic and New Kuzikstania Yellows. The other 3 who could possibly somehow surprise are Sazistan Gladiators, Irwin Jokers, and perhaps even Yurizambe Miners. As always we have seen for the next 40 years, Fish County and Whiskey Bread are both fighting for the 8-9 spots, while the rest are doing their best to not get relegated. I'd probably already say good bye to the two newcomers.

Next week, Sjyllan Kizzen will predict the rest of the leagues, so stay tuned!

In the park

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In the park in the downtown of New Kuzikstania, the evening is getting colder. Petuq is jumping to stay warm swearing, as he takes a look at his watch and lights the last cigarette. At school, he used to be the best in class, but now he's addicted to crack. His mother doesn't care, the boy has never seen his father. Petuq takes care of himself. Yesterday he got an sms from his friend: "I know how to get some easy money, let's meet in the park if you're in". Petuq raises his collar and finishes off the cigarette, as he thinks he has got nothing to lose.

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Qiqlis is a beautiful, young woman. After the commercial institute, she decided to start her own firm and took a huge loan from the bank. But Qiqlis got some troubles, The firm was driven to bankruptcy and now she can't pay the bills or the loan. Her parents would have a lot of money but they don't want to help their daughter. They say: "Welcome to the real world, here you'll have to survive on your own". At nights, Qiqlis stays awake and prays: 'God please help me, I can't make it through'.

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Qiqlis arrives on her motorbike and brakes on the edge of the park. Petuq jumps aboard the bike. Neither one says a word and they drive to a cottage. Qiqlis hands the key and tells Petuq again where her mom keeps her jewellery. They thought they had made it, When Qiqlis notices the blue lights In the motorcycle's mirror Demanding them to stop. Qiqlis gases it and shouts: 'Hold on!'. In the morning headlines are blazing and they're local legends for a day or two...