Phase 16 Part 1
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Reports of Wakandan air strikes are finally petering off across the globe. In the US, we have reports of explosions and air battles stretching from New Orleans, where Dillard University is on fire in the Southern US, to St Louis, where Wakandan fighters struck industrial targets.
CNN
US citizens are scared, stunned by the attacks, and outraged. Social media is lit on fire with demands for bloody retribution and increasing calls for nuclear retaliation.
CNN
A major battle occurred just outside New York. Social media pinpointed Tony Stark's location in the area of the General Dynamics research and development facility. Emergency services and police were dispatched to the site, which is currently locked under martial law.
CBS
Attacks across the US, China, and Japan, and the first strikes of South Korea suddenly ceased. Experts claim that the likely reason is a possible high attrition rate suffered by Wakanda's Air Force.
Euronews
A French government source announced an air raid carried by the Charles de Gaule air wing striking targets within Wakanda as the possible reason the air onslaught ceased.
AFP
NATO officials confirm a successful raid launched by the French Marine Nationale.
Euronews
Wakandan Air Power attacked Charles de Gaule Carrier Battle Group as it approached the Persian Gulf. Unconfirmed reports point to hundreds of casualties. France's sole nuclear-powered carrier is reportedly still afloat but likely mission killed. This makes a second NATO-affiliated carrier disabled in the same general area if by different nations and weapons. Are we seeing the end of carrier dominance of the oceans?
BBC World News
The French raid confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that Wakanda is a hidden technologically advanced country, with what experts claim is potentially technology literally out of this world. The French Ministry of Defense released videos from air combat above a futuristic city that appeared to be hidden by an enormous holographic field and defended by energy cannons built into the mountainsides around it.
Еuronews
In a short statement, President Obama affirms that all weapons within the United States military arsenal are on the table to defend the people and integrity of the United States and our allies; however, at this time, the US government is not contemplating launching a first nuclear strike. However, any deployment of WMDs or attack on critical infrastructure with the potential to create widespread damage, like nuclear power plants and dams, will be considered unacceptable escalation and will warrant a nuclear response. President Obama also confirmed that this includes such attacks or WMD deployment against targets within the United States or US troops deployed overseas and attacks on our allies.
CNN
SHIELD site Blue
location classified
United Kingdom
T'Challa sat on a not particularly comfortable chair, wearing a warm suit provided by his host. His little sister was beside him, sipping tea and looking at the wall with a far-off expression on her face. Ayo leaned the wall behind him, with her steely gaze focused on the door to what they all knew was an interrogation room. The Prince knew that warning the outside world was the right call. The same was true about his public call for all Wakanda diplomatic personnel and War Dogs to cease following orders from the madmen in control of Wakanda.
All that was cold comfort. After arriving at this side under heavy military escort, T'Challa had access to a TV and thus the ongoing news of constant attacks by the Wakanda Air Force. The only saving grace there was the targets, which in most cases, had been evacuated. His people thus killed only a few civilians, with most casualties being either military personnel or caused by the world's attempt to defend itself. Of course, morally, it was all on Wakanda, and there was going to be hell to pay. T'Challa knew there were radical factions within the country. However, he had thought that his father, the War Dogs, and Dora Milaje had it all in hand.
Well, they all found out they were catastrophically wrong on that account. Only Dora Milaje didn't fail completely. Otherwise, he and Shuri wouldn't be in this place feeling sorry for themselves and contemplating how they might save Wakanda if at all possible.
The door opened, and an older British woman entered. She wore a brown business suit and carried a steaming cup of tea in one hand and a tablet in the other.
"Prince T'Challa, Princess Shuri, we have much to discuss. I am Councilor Pamela Hawley, representing SWORD, an international organization tasked to deal with extraterrestrial incursions."
"What does that have to do with the crisis at hand?! There are no aliens involved!" Shuri perked up and asked a pointed question.
"Don't get me wrong; it's not the idea of an advanced civilization in Africa built by black people that give people pause. How you managed to remain hidden for so long, and the level of technological superiority your attack has revealed raises many questions. Many believe the most plausible explanation is that you've had alien help if you aren't proxies aliens are using to cripple the rest of the world. Why, some claim that the technologies your attacks have demonstrated to date are literally out of this world. And if this is the case, the consequences will be grave. Then this becomes more than the act of madmen who hijacked control over your country and military."
T'Challa closed his eyes and thought rapidly. He knew the truth, yet it wouldn't paint Wakanda in a better light; on the contrary. Then again, being declared traitors to humanity had all kinds of implications he didn't want to contemplate and were to be avoided.
"The truth doesn't paint my country in a better light than being alien collaborators. For a long time, until the early eighties, Wakanda's intelligence service, the War Dogs, kept stealing or buying technologies from the outside world and sabotaging research and development until the last years of my grandfather's reign as a King. That, combined with vibranium, the foundation of our technologies, allowed Wakanda to gain and retain its position as the technologically most advanced country on the planet."
"Industrial espionage we can provisionally overlook; everyone does it. Buying technology, even if it's classified and restricted, everyone has been doing it as well. Now sabotage to keep the rest of the world down, which will be harder to swallow," Hawley concluded. "Vibranium? Elaborate."
"It is an extraterrestrial material from a meteorite, so that is the only alien connection we have. The material has properties like nothing else on Earth. Vibranium and its alloys allow for the development and practical use of technologies that would be otherwise out of reach for years, or even decades to be practical," T'Challa explained.
"Is that how you got your cloaking system?"
"That's a fascinating story!" Shuri looked properly alive for the first time since the coup. "Our scientists cracked it while researching how to create an energy shield able to protect cities from nuclear weapons during the height of the Cold War! It overlaps with our holographic technology as well! You see, vibranium-based electronics and alloys we use in our holographic emitters allow them to sustain channeling much more energy than mere holograms require. We already knew that because our Warrior's energy shields are based on the same principles! We are using a combination of technologies to project a holographic field around our aircraft, which uses cameras and integrated sensors to create and maintain a coherent illusion that there is nothing to see! Of course, that's only the first step because doing so would only hide a plane from cameras and the naked eye! Next, we use some of our shield principles to bend light and electromagnetic radiation around the vessel in question, making it slide around it as if there is nothing to see! Finally, heat! That is a big problem that requires vibranium-based heatsinks to store. While they are a pain to build and maintain, they can store heat from a cloaked vessel of the size and power we build for up to a day of flight, giving them global reach while invisible!"
"How does that prevent your fighters from appearing on thermal cameras?" Hawley probed.
"That's again the application of the shield technology. Of course, our fighters don't have the power generation for the kind of shield that will be useful in combat or to protect them from a crash any better than their armor, so installing proper shields on them is a moot point! However, the basic technology at low power can be used to absorb the heat radiated by the vessel, including engine exhaust, instead of radiating a large part of it out; it creates a feedback loop to the heatsinks! After all, an energy shield not only has to reflect as much energy as feasible, it needs to absorb punishment, including thermal energy! We use that principle to hide the heat of our fighters! Even better, we can use vibranium heatsinks to turn some of that heat into electricity for use by the vessel in question, which further increases how long it could remain cloaked!"
Hawley was sure this explanation would be invaluable to scientists and engineers worldwide, just like everything this girl might know. It still didn't give a clue on how to actually detect Wakanda's fighters, which was her next question.
Phase 16: No one likes the taste of a future war
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Reports of Wakandan air strikes are finally petering off across the globe. In the US, we have reports of explosions and air battles stretching from New Orleans, where Dillard University is on fire in the Southern US, to St Louis, where Wakandan fighters struck industrial targets.
CNN
US citizens are scared, stunned by the attacks, and outraged. Social media is lit on fire with demands for bloody retribution and increasing calls for nuclear retaliation.
CNN
A major battle occurred just outside New York. Social media pinpointed Tony Stark's location in the area of the General Dynamics research and development facility. Emergency services and police were dispatched to the site, which is currently locked under martial law.
CBS
Attacks across the US, China, and Japan, and the first strikes of South Korea suddenly ceased. Experts claim that the likely reason is a possible high attrition rate suffered by Wakanda's Air Force.
Euronews
A French government source announced an air raid carried by the Charles de Gaule air wing striking targets within Wakanda as the possible reason the air onslaught ceased.
AFP
NATO officials confirm a successful raid launched by the French Marine Nationale.
Euronews
Wakandan Air Power attacked Charles de Gaule Carrier Battle Group as it approached the Persian Gulf. Unconfirmed reports point to hundreds of casualties. France's sole nuclear-powered carrier is reportedly still afloat but likely mission killed. This makes a second NATO-affiliated carrier disabled in the same general area if by different nations and weapons. Are we seeing the end of carrier dominance of the oceans?
BBC World News
The French raid confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that Wakanda is a hidden technologically advanced country, with what experts claim is potentially technology literally out of this world. The French Ministry of Defense released videos from air combat above a futuristic city that appeared to be hidden by an enormous holographic field and defended by energy cannons built into the mountainsides around it.
Еuronews
In a short statement, President Obama affirms that all weapons within the United States military arsenal are on the table to defend the people and integrity of the United States and our allies; however, at this time, the US government is not contemplating launching a first nuclear strike. However, any deployment of WMDs or attack on critical infrastructure with the potential to create widespread damage, like nuclear power plants and dams, will be considered unacceptable escalation and will warrant a nuclear response. President Obama also confirmed that this includes such attacks or WMD deployment against targets within the United States or US troops deployed overseas and attacks on our allies.
CNN
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SHIELD site Blue
location classified
United Kingdom
T'Challa sat on a not particularly comfortable chair, wearing a warm suit provided by his host. His little sister was beside him, sipping tea and looking at the wall with a far-off expression on her face. Ayo leaned the wall behind him, with her steely gaze focused on the door to what they all knew was an interrogation room. The Prince knew that warning the outside world was the right call. The same was true about his public call for all Wakanda diplomatic personnel and War Dogs to cease following orders from the madmen in control of Wakanda.
All that was cold comfort. After arriving at this side under heavy military escort, T'Challa had access to a TV and thus the ongoing news of constant attacks by the Wakanda Air Force. The only saving grace there was the targets, which in most cases, had been evacuated. His people thus killed only a few civilians, with most casualties being either military personnel or caused by the world's attempt to defend itself. Of course, morally, it was all on Wakanda, and there was going to be hell to pay. T'Challa knew there were radical factions within the country. However, he had thought that his father, the War Dogs, and Dora Milaje had it all in hand.
Well, they all found out they were catastrophically wrong on that account. Only Dora Milaje didn't fail completely. Otherwise, he and Shuri wouldn't be in this place feeling sorry for themselves and contemplating how they might save Wakanda if at all possible.
The door opened, and an older British woman entered. She wore a brown business suit and carried a steaming cup of tea in one hand and a tablet in the other.
"Prince T'Challa, Princess Shuri, we have much to discuss. I am Councilor Pamela Hawley, representing SWORD, an international organization tasked to deal with extraterrestrial incursions."
"What does that have to do with the crisis at hand?! There are no aliens involved!" Shuri perked up and asked a pointed question.
"Don't get me wrong; it's not the idea of an advanced civilization in Africa built by black people that give people pause. How you managed to remain hidden for so long, and the level of technological superiority your attack has revealed raises many questions. Many believe the most plausible explanation is that you've had alien help if you aren't proxies aliens are using to cripple the rest of the world. Why, some claim that the technologies your attacks have demonstrated to date are literally out of this world. And if this is the case, the consequences will be grave. Then this becomes more than the act of madmen who hijacked control over your country and military."
T'Challa closed his eyes and thought rapidly. He knew the truth, yet it wouldn't paint Wakanda in a better light; on the contrary. Then again, being declared traitors to humanity had all kinds of implications he didn't want to contemplate and were to be avoided.
"The truth doesn't paint my country in a better light than being alien collaborators. For a long time, until the early eighties, Wakanda's intelligence service, the War Dogs, kept stealing or buying technologies from the outside world and sabotaging research and development until the last years of my grandfather's reign as a King. That, combined with vibranium, the foundation of our technologies, allowed Wakanda to gain and retain its position as the technologically most advanced country on the planet."
"Industrial espionage we can provisionally overlook; everyone does it. Buying technology, even if it's classified and restricted, everyone has been doing it as well. Now sabotage to keep the rest of the world down, which will be harder to swallow," Hawley concluded. "Vibranium? Elaborate."
"It is an extraterrestrial material from a meteorite, so that is the only alien connection we have. The material has properties like nothing else on Earth. Vibranium and its alloys allow for the development and practical use of technologies that would be otherwise out of reach for years, or even decades to be practical," T'Challa explained.
"Is that how you got your cloaking system?"
"That's a fascinating story!" Shuri looked properly alive for the first time since the coup. "Our scientists cracked it while researching how to create an energy shield able to protect cities from nuclear weapons during the height of the Cold War! It overlaps with our holographic technology as well! You see, vibranium-based electronics and alloys we use in our holographic emitters allow them to sustain channeling much more energy than mere holograms require. We already knew that because our Warrior's energy shields are based on the same principles! We are using a combination of technologies to project a holographic field around our aircraft, which uses cameras and integrated sensors to create and maintain a coherent illusion that there is nothing to see! Of course, that's only the first step because doing so would only hide a plane from cameras and the naked eye! Next, we use some of our shield principles to bend light and electromagnetic radiation around the vessel in question, making it slide around it as if there is nothing to see! Finally, heat! That is a big problem that requires vibranium-based heatsinks to store. While they are a pain to build and maintain, they can store heat from a cloaked vessel of the size and power we build for up to a day of flight, giving them global reach while invisible!"
"How does that prevent your fighters from appearing on thermal cameras?" Hawley probed.
"That's again the application of the shield technology. Of course, our fighters don't have the power generation for the kind of shield that will be useful in combat or to protect them from a crash any better than their armor, so installing proper shields on them is a moot point! However, the basic technology at low power can be used to absorb the heat radiated by the vessel, including engine exhaust, instead of radiating a large part of it out; it creates a feedback loop to the heatsinks! After all, an energy shield not only has to reflect as much energy as feasible, it needs to absorb punishment, including thermal energy! We use that principle to hide the heat of our fighters! Even better, we can use vibranium heatsinks to turn some of that heat into electricity for use by the vessel in question, which further increases how long it could remain cloaked!"
Hawley was sure this explanation would be invaluable to scientists and engineers worldwide, just like everything this girl might know. It still didn't give a clue on how to actually detect Wakanda's fighters, which was her next question.
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