Navigating into known waters, the FAA Princio-Stéphanio I arrived swiftly to Winston Island. The crew was happy to have reached such a wonderful island.

But after years of isolationism, Anserisa had opened up, but how good were the relations with the local authority? Would they be able to share vital intelligence? Use the facilities easily and at what cost? If not, they would have to go back to Anserisa later and maybe try to spearhead an expedition by themselves if they have the funds for it.

The officer in charge of the mission asked a meeting to request vital resources.

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Turn 2: Things are not looking good...


The researchers from the RPNV Raika managed to decode the documents and retrieve some clues regarding the incident. It was revealed that the plane carried a group of scientists notorious for bioweapon creation, involving Doctor Hanno Lieber, a Gi-Lanndian defector and international criminal that developed notoriety for selling biochemical weapons. Including one that became the notorious Catra Death incident in the Reizen Theatre. Moreover, the plane had carried a tremendous amount of gold reserves, which, according to flight date, caused the plane to be slightly overweight. However, there were still several documents that were redacted by Huawan Intercontinental Airlines and Peonic Aicraft Investigators regarding the nature of the weapons, and whilst analyzing those, the signal in the boat wore off and the some of the data unfolded were lost in the cloud.

Above them, as the Royal Earemland satellites tried to map the surface to look for evidence of the wreckage, a cloud of spacedust had clogged up the sensors of the recon satellite. Until the sensors are cleaned by space dust, the satellite could not map the ocean surface and find the wreckage of the plane.

As for the Izaakian forward expedition, a storm was brewing in the area of Christies trench, which caused high tides hitting the Izaakian forward team there. As the planes drop their ocean buoys early in the morning to monitor the currents for any sign of high tides and movement in Christine's trench, the waves had completely swept the buoys away from their original location in the afternoon, it will take repairing and relocations to have them back active. The strong weather had also grounded any helicopter at that time, and the Izaakian troops are left currently playing cards and drinking warm beer in their makeshift base while they wait for the storm to pass over.

Meanwhile, the Holy Free's vessel, HMS Sonny had the tailwind behind them and the calmer seas, the ships sailed along and everyone was motivated to uncover what is lurking below Christie's trench. The vessel moved at record time and will be arriving in the morrow. Back at base, Holy Free aircraft investigators had tried to replicate the crash physics from the nature of the accident, it was speculated that the plane had crashed north, just shy over the canyons overlooking the trench and evidence of the plane wreck should be available in the islands surrounding the trench, meaning that the plane is under the explorable area. Further investigation also led to high support for a theory, that despite the high load from the gold reserved checked in,, the downing of the plane could possibly be caused by malicious pilot error.

As the Besern naval expedition pulled their anchor and set sail, a tragedy happened. The ship's crew were overconfident in maintaining record time by sailing around the coast of the region. Unbeknownst to them, the route was laden with sea corals, causing a massive accident in the expedition. The BCGS Tarinia, and the BCGS Gottfried are beached with a leaky hull. It would take a long time for the expedition to rescue the vessels. Arrival time is delayed considerably, thanks to a monumental amount of health and safety check protocol. In the mainland, aircraft investigators had tried to triangulate the location of the plane using the old data back in 2005. Things were going well when suddenly a trojan virus came into the computers of the Brient Altfilrus University and completely wiping and locking any data regarding to triangulating the location. Authorities thought it was a deliberate attack, but little that they know, the night janitor had used the facility computer to watch a virus-stricken pirated version of Hello Kitty Rated R for "Refreshing". Progress is halted. However, oceanographers, who had taken the liberty of using their own private laptops, had successfully got a map of the ocean floor. The Besern Private expedition had also launched to Winston Island, and avoiding the reefs, would arrive in two days time.

The Anserisan fleet arrives in the scene, with the Peonic expedition, Izaakian navy and Holy Free vessel and the Besern Private expedition arriving on the morrow.

"毎日の小さな努力の積み重ねが歴史を作っていくんだよ。"

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This counts as turn 3

"毎日の小さな努力の積み重ねが歴史を作っていくんだよ。"

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IAF Troops stranded in the region yesterday are sent out with mission to both find debris on islands, and also potential castaways
Search areas for the Navy and Private entities have been announced, along with a sharing the signal location


IAF relaunches mission to drop buoys to ascertain currents of the region.
Following realisation of potential WMDs the IAF begin observing all ships in the area.

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Considering the failure, the satellite attempts again.

"Maybe embarassing yourself is an Earamian thing..."
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Rainbow Sea, 4th of December, 20XX



The sun was going down, yet the job was not done. At least for aircraft investigator Zahra Lliong, the nation's best aircraft safety investigator in Huawan, she was the one that led the investigation of flight HIA 2074, the plane that ended the life of The Peonic Crown Prince, High Diplomat Ryuunosuke Yan. She was flown into ZhangHai at the same day and had joined the oceanographers as the ship set sail. She held her cigarette between her fingers and enjoyed every puff of it, she was still annoyed at the loss of data, she knew better than to not have analogue datafiles.

"Do you have a light?" she heard as she looked to her side. It was Captain Ko. "I figured I could join you."

"Jazakallah, captain." Said Zahra Lliong as she took out the lighter from the pocket on her jacket and passed it on. She tightened her hijab as to not let it blown away, she looked at the side of the ship looking at the light setting west.

"We are chasing the light, honourable researcher." Said Captain Ko, taking a cigarette from his pocket and lighting it.

"What a strong smell, captain," remarked Zahra, sniffing the strong tobacco smell.

"It is Bruuman tobacco, they have a good taste."

"I don't really like to smoke if I'm honest, they taste bitter in the tongue and the feeling of smoke in your lungs is not that good." Explained Zahra as she took a puff and threw the ash down the ocean.

"I understand, miss Zahra. I understand what was going on." Said the Captain as he took his own puff, "It is indeed, one of those times."

"It is public knowledge that the nature of the crash is... baffling. The overweight plane carrying gold reserves is speculated, at that time we have not calibrated the weight of passengers." said Zahra, "There is more weight than usual, and a model like the CM 8000 should be able to fly through."


"And of the bioweapon manner?" asked the Captain, curious.

"......Complete hogwash, captain." Said Zahra as she took another puff, coughing mildly, before continuing. "On 2005, you'd think there's more than one copy of the plans, you and I both know that in our line of work, criminals are like hydras, you cut off one head, two more would get out. You kill the bioweapon specialist, you'll have more notes in his own headquarters."

"You've thought about this a lot." Said Captain Ko, taking another breath on his cigarette.

"Do you really think The Peocracy is all that nice, warm and fuzzy captain?" asked Zahra, she chuckled a bit. "The data we had on the HIA 402 are redacted by the Ministry of Intelligence and State Security, there is not much to add apart from what we already know. There is something that they're hiding, and I hope they could tell us."

"....We'll be arriving tomorrow at Winston Island, or near there." Said Captain Ko, "The RPNV Sakura along with the RPV Katsugawa is going to meet us, apparently, the Navy wants to brief us first, maybe they could tell us what's up?"


"I'll make my report then." Responded Zahra as she coughed a bit, then started to suck her piece once more, "We're still trying to triangulate the location and uncovering some more clues.."

"The Izaakians gave us their sonar results, are they not enough?" asked Captain Ko, he dreaded her answer.

"We could not verify it yet, you know that captain." said Zahra, looking at the captain with dead set eyes.

".....I'm afraid you're right." sighed the Captain. Zahra scratched her throat and changed the topic

"Well captain, I will see you in the mess hall." said Zahra as she tightened her jacket from the cold, "I hear it's potato salad tonight."

"...Get used to it miss Zahra," Said Captain Ko as he chuckled and puffed his last smoke, before throwing it to the ocean, "have a good night."

"Insyaallah, captain, Insyaallah." responded Zahra, Captain Ko moved out, leaving the investigator leaning on the railing of the ship, watching the crashing waves as the sun goes down.

"毎日の小さな努力の積み重ねが歴史を作っていくんだよ。"

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- Doraemon


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Turn 3: .....was ist das für ne scheiße....


As the sun sets over the RPNV Raika, the team tried to triangulate the crash based on the routes and the last known signal using sophisticated crash physics. However, the sleep-deprived researcher team was not in its best position, and one of the researchers spilt a whole pot of warm coffee unto the computer by accident. The software for crash physics is inaccessible, and so are any prior data from the computer. Only a hard drive was retrieved, but it will take a large effort for them to retrieve the data back. However, under the orders of Zahra, the team had successfully translated any info they had so far to paper, there were several things found out, and the report was made, ready to be presented to the naval higher-ups the following morning. The data uncovered was game-changing, and the team went to the mess hall for some potato salad, only to find a revolting taste akin to wallpaper glue.

As the Anserisans arrived at Winston Island, the local governor had met the expedition and a meeting was made regarding the settlement of a base here. The Anserisan officer had asked the Winstonian Government for some intelligence sharing regarding the crash, but they refused, claiming that since this is mostly an operation by the Royal Peonic Expedition, they wish to wait for them to arrive first and inform them the details uncovered by the radar team so far. Knowing the amount of time Anserisa is going to stay, they needed a forward base, and the governor allowed for the Anserisans to stay, at a smaller dock than requested. The officer tried to negotiate with the governor and after a couple of intense discussions followed by rounds of Valkyrian Beer, the governor agreed that the Anserisans may rent the port facility at a reduced rate.

Things are not looking good with the Izaakian forward expedition led by their airforce. The weather calmed down and there was enough sunlight to relaunch the search party. However as the helicopters took off from the forward base, the engines malfunctioned. The rain had tainted the fuel, clogging up the engine, and it'll take some time to bleed the bad fuel out. Tainted fuel had caused all IAF assets in the base to be grounded until the morrow. The buoys were successfully relaunched to map the currents and were working fine, until the storm began at night, shelling a vicious rain throughout the search area, the waves were tall and the tides are high. One by one the buoys were gone, and by 11PM, all the Izaakian buoys are sunk without signal. There are no more buoys left.

The Royal Earemland satellite continues to retry the tracing of the Ocean surface, however, continued hits from space dust damaged the satellite even further. The apparatus fails to map the ocean surface and would need direct maintenance from the International Space station.

As dawn breaks. The Izaakian Navy expedition arrived. Followed by both the Besern Private Expedition and the Holy Free mission. They were ready to begin the search. The RPNV Raika stopped at Winston island for fuel, and set sail to meet the RPNV Sakura and the RPV Katsugawa.

"毎日の小さな努力の積み重ねが歴史を作っていくんだよ。"

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- Doraemon


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For the sake of keeping the conversation as fluid for the reader, each character has been assigned a colour.

Chief of Staff of the President
President Columbo Septimum
Commissioner of Defence Eusébio Rédium
Commander Platum of the FAA Princio-Stéphanio I

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President Columbo Septimum was in his office with some staff members, discussing what would be on the agenda for next week before leaving for the weekend. The Chief of Staff was in the midst of explaining the last details of the tour on the east coast of Branta Island.

"So it's settled, we are going to Alisa to shoot a promotion video for the new tram service we want to implement in the city and then we drive to Gubernata..."

He was interrupted when the President's private secretary entered the room.

"We have Commander Platum on the line, he has some information about the research mission."

"Very well, please dispatch it in here. Anyone who is not accredited for classified information, I please ask you to wait in the next room, thank you."

The Chief of Staff of the President, his special advisor and his Communications Advisor were the only one who didn't move from their chairs. All the others left the room.

"Can you contact the Commissioner of Defence please and put him through the call too, with a secure line?" he asked the private secretary before she closed the door.

After a while, the phone in the room rang, it was put on speaker mode.

"Eusébio?"

"Yes, I am on the line."

"We have a call with Commander Platum about the rescue mission. Commander Platum?"

"Yes, mister President."

"You called to inform us about new information?"

"Yes, mister President. We have news that many expeditions have started getting results and the Izaakian government released a map. We also requested and gotten a meeting with the local authorities on Winston Island, we have negotiated the use of their port facilities, we will have a smaller harbour than requested but we have a really reasonable price to pay and we were not able to receive some share intelligence."

"Damn it. What should we do next? Eusébio?"

"Well, now we have a nearby port to operate from, this will help us for sure. But we have to act fast, I have a feeling we might not be lucky if we wait too long to go there, I suggest we fly over the helicopter of the boat and try to find something as fast as we can."

"Other people agree?"

"Well, it was our idea to assert our presence in the region, and right now, we are only docked at Winston Island, I agree with the strategy put forward by Commissioner Rédium."

"Very well, Commander Platum, you have your orders, move your ship near the site and launch the helicopter. That will be all for the moment."

The line disconnected, the President sat on his seat.

"Let's bring the people back in and let's finish the meeting quickly."

Anserisa | Kosbareland | Mauquibie
Fortinian Confederacy

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Meeting Aboard the Flag Ship Aircraft Carrier Stingray with captains of all private and navy ships as the flotilla arrives from the South.

List of Ships - Navy
HMS Sting Ray - Aircraft Carrier
RV Iceberg - Deep Sea Research Vessel with small Deep Sea Submarine RV Subby McSubface
HMS Manta Ray - Radio ship (Communication observation)
HMS Mako - Stealth Corvette
HMS Beluga - Supply and Technology Hub
RV Deep Blue - Oceanic Research Vessel with Deep Sea Sun RV Yellow Submarine

Ships - Private
The Rombold - Shipping Vessel, specially equipped and deep sea sonar with 4 Helipads.
The Royal Yacht - Empress Astrid and Hugo Heinriksen, equipped with deep sea sub and helicopter.
The Jolly Roger - Treasure Hunters from the TV show “Treasure Me Hearties”, equipped with sonar.


Admiral Nemo a tall, lean and imposing character with a white bushy beard and a face marked with the many scars of a life at sea enters the room and opens with
“Good Morning Ladies and Gentlemen and of course your Imperial Highness, its a pleasure to have you all here for what is a most unusual occasion. We are about to embark on a treasure hunt, there are many theories as to what lies in the depths with the wreckage, from gold, to bank accounts in tax havens, probably Izaakia, but, that is not why we are here. We are here to find the secret of HIA 402, we believe the wreckage to contain a highly deadly biological weapon, a weapon so dangerous we cannot allow another nation to get hold of it, we must destroy it.”
Empress Astrid Interrupts “Yes I quite agree, we have a moral obligation as police officer of the world, to prevent a weapon like this from ever seeing the light of day, so good luck to us all, carry on Admiral”
Admiral Nemo “Quite right, thank you your majesty, so this is the plan, since we’re not at war we will break up the flotilla to cover more ground. RV Iceberg and RV Deep Blue will use sonar to map the bottom of the ocean around the [Redacted] where we last picked up a radio signal from the HIA 402. HMS Manta Ray will attempt to intercept communications between other ships in the area, and scramble messages of none Izaakian Signals. HMS Mako will accompany the Iceberg and Deep Blue. HMS Beluga will set up radio receivers at several points in the area to help triangulate the signal more precisely.
The Rombold and The Jolly Roger will search the eastern portion of the search area. Her majesty will fly to see local officials and see what we can learn, while Hugo Heinriksen with the Royal Yacht will search the western search area alongside HMS Sting Ray, which will also send search parties to all 5 islands in the area to search for castaways and wreckage, gods speed everyone”.

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Senior Officer of the HMS Sonny is in the control room of the ship. Suddenly a call.

"Senior Officer, Have you arrived at the place yet?"

"We're almost there."

"Our base has triangulated the position of where the ship might have been. Although, the area we've triangulated doesn't have the signal that Izaakia releases from its government in that area. It might have been sabotage but it have more accuracy. Check there first."

"Yes, Sir."

"The base will be finding out more about the incident. With the help of the scholars in the Rove University. We've ask the Zhanghai government for a copy of the background check of the pilots. After we think there might have been malicious things going on. Also, we are testing scenarios in which survivors can survive. Look out for people too. Over."

"Over."

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