Post by StaolDerg on Mar 25, 2021 2:43:11 GMT -5
(OOC note: this is one of several underground Elenrian newspapers of the Ourkala av Kori. More information can be found in the Elenrian culture factbook if you're confused.)
I am sure that many are spectacularly overjoyed to learn of the recent news from the good and shining beacon of information that is the Crimson Wyvern Daily about the interference of Ashigawa in our domestic affairs. More than a few hundred letters have made their way to me inquiring on what must surely be a hoax or yet possibly the another distraction, provided courtesy of the government. In any case, given that I could not find an interview with the mentioned "Kempeitei," here is the fact of the matter.
In the fact of what is currently understood by way of the Elenrian military that I have been able to obtain, the Stay Famine is in fact, shockingly, not the immediate and direct fault of the government for once. Rather, one of the cells of the Royalists committed a full-scale assault on a military famine relief train in the Southeastern Region. A truck, likely stolen from the motor factory at nearby Kaliva, was used to block the tracks and stop the train, where it was then shot at by Galran weaponry and equipment, armed by Ashigawa's military intelligence according to all sources I have at hand1. The crew and guards were then violently executed and the train with its cargo was destroyed2. While this appalling action seems bizarre from what the very honorable forces of the Royalists tend to be in their usual exploits of lighting houses on fire for vaguely suspected collaboration with the Kumo, I have come across evidence that the possible influence of at least a foreign agent of Odaru heritage was at play here radicalizing the Royalist leadership3. While the food's existence itself seems vague at best to be destroyed,
1Refer to testimony of an interrogation done on a captured Royalist officer by TAKPOE/Royal Navy forces; Stay 1945 after-action Territorial report dispatched to Kesternrim for Her Majesty's eyes, as well as the military high command, though censorship and redaction is present on the presented copy for the Queen; Police report, Foa 20, 1945 Kaliva Police Report: Theft of vehicles from Plant #2, Kaliva, Royalists suspected
2Photos provided by military archives in the Citadel of War; source1 Stay 1945 Territorial Report; Kesternrim and Omnai Military Obituary Register
3Personal testimony w/ "Cpl. Azil" of the 16th Free Army Regiment of the Elenria Elder; Journal Entry Achsen 2 of "Lt. Peruni" of the 16th Free Army Regiment, dictating excerpt of a speech given by an Odaru of a "H.A. Expedition," which helped radicalize officers present, including the presiding author, who had only recently arrived by both accounts, former included.
This does not remove the TAKPOE leadership of blame though, as a Foa military report4 does show that the train was not guarded despite traveling through an area noted to be close to a known area of operations of the Royalists. A recommendation for a rail-borne infantry escort or supplying the train with a close-support carriage is even listed in the report. The report's call for notice was largely dismissed on the grounds that Kumo armaments would supply local Territorial Elenria with the resources to operate effectively and suppress the Royalists, in addition to the at-time situation of a largely defensive Royalist doctrine. As such, the assault was largely unexpected and consequently successful in the destruction of the train cargo. We can chalk this mostly up to military unpreparedness, and even though I'm no High-Crested, I think its also fair to say that all six railways (if you can call the sorry strips of metal and soggy wooden beams tracks) do make for a fairly guessable target.
4Battlefield Preparedness Report, Foa 1945, Southeastern Region. Pg. 34-45, "Rail Preparedness, Review, and Evaluation."
It is still important to remain at least some semblance of restraint about the issue. Let me not be one to order my dear readers about, but please do keep in mind we don't need the Kumo tossing the taxes they just removed back for disobedience. I would advise a cup of tea to calm you down in this following recipe:
1. Hot water: preferably not from the bog again.
2. A leaf and some herbs: I put it to you that you paid attention to your parents teaching you from the old book of herbs and know the difference between nightshade and blackberries. If not, please go back to children's primary school.
3. Good memories: preferably not from mushrooms.
4. Liquor: because tea isn't going to fix the abysmal state we live in until our High-Crested die of old age.
At that, I wish you a good month. May Bellien be more merciful.
Meldas Issue - Vaylien 1945
Ilkad L.
Ilkad L.
Good day again.
I am sure that many are spectacularly overjoyed to learn of the recent news from the good and shining beacon of information that is the Crimson Wyvern Daily about the interference of Ashigawa in our domestic affairs. More than a few hundred letters have made their way to me inquiring on what must surely be a hoax or yet possibly the another distraction, provided courtesy of the government. In any case, given that I could not find an interview with the mentioned "Kempeitei," here is the fact of the matter.
In the fact of what is currently understood by way of the Elenrian military that I have been able to obtain, the Stay Famine is in fact, shockingly, not the immediate and direct fault of the government for once. Rather, one of the cells of the Royalists committed a full-scale assault on a military famine relief train in the Southeastern Region. A truck, likely stolen from the motor factory at nearby Kaliva, was used to block the tracks and stop the train, where it was then shot at by Galran weaponry and equipment, armed by Ashigawa's military intelligence according to all sources I have at hand1. The crew and guards were then violently executed and the train with its cargo was destroyed2. While this appalling action seems bizarre from what the very honorable forces of the Royalists tend to be in their usual exploits of lighting houses on fire for vaguely suspected collaboration with the Kumo, I have come across evidence that the possible influence of at least a foreign agent of Odaru heritage was at play here radicalizing the Royalist leadership3. While the food's existence itself seems vague at best to be destroyed,
1Refer to testimony of an interrogation done on a captured Royalist officer by TAKPOE/Royal Navy forces; Stay 1945 after-action Territorial report dispatched to Kesternrim for Her Majesty's eyes, as well as the military high command, though censorship and redaction is present on the presented copy for the Queen; Police report, Foa 20, 1945 Kaliva Police Report: Theft of vehicles from Plant #2, Kaliva, Royalists suspected
2Photos provided by military archives in the Citadel of War; source1 Stay 1945 Territorial Report; Kesternrim and Omnai Military Obituary Register
3Personal testimony w/ "Cpl. Azil" of the 16th Free Army Regiment of the Elenria Elder; Journal Entry Achsen 2 of "Lt. Peruni" of the 16th Free Army Regiment, dictating excerpt of a speech given by an Odaru of a "H.A. Expedition," which helped radicalize officers present, including the presiding author, who had only recently arrived by both accounts, former included.
This does not remove the TAKPOE leadership of blame though, as a Foa military report4 does show that the train was not guarded despite traveling through an area noted to be close to a known area of operations of the Royalists. A recommendation for a rail-borne infantry escort or supplying the train with a close-support carriage is even listed in the report. The report's call for notice was largely dismissed on the grounds that Kumo armaments would supply local Territorial Elenria with the resources to operate effectively and suppress the Royalists, in addition to the at-time situation of a largely defensive Royalist doctrine. As such, the assault was largely unexpected and consequently successful in the destruction of the train cargo. We can chalk this mostly up to military unpreparedness, and even though I'm no High-Crested, I think its also fair to say that all six railways (if you can call the sorry strips of metal and soggy wooden beams tracks) do make for a fairly guessable target.
4Battlefield Preparedness Report, Foa 1945, Southeastern Region. Pg. 34-45, "Rail Preparedness, Review, and Evaluation."
It is still important to remain at least some semblance of restraint about the issue. Let me not be one to order my dear readers about, but please do keep in mind we don't need the Kumo tossing the taxes they just removed back for disobedience. I would advise a cup of tea to calm you down in this following recipe:
1. Hot water: preferably not from the bog again.
2. A leaf and some herbs: I put it to you that you paid attention to your parents teaching you from the old book of herbs and know the difference between nightshade and blackberries. If not, please go back to children's primary school.
3. Good memories: preferably not from mushrooms.
4. Liquor: because tea isn't going to fix the abysmal state we live in until our High-Crested die of old age.
At that, I wish you a good month. May Bellien be more merciful.