NIVÃRIMA (Orbis 20 Feb 2005) — Red Castle Broadcasting Corporation (RCBC) begins broadcasting again.

It has been more than five months since 12 thermonuclear devices were detonated in a series of devastating nuclear attacks upon Athretvari in September and October of 2004 by a rogue terrorist organization known only as the Nuclear Knights (NK).

The attacks, which killed more than 1.48 million people in seven Athretvar cities, took place after Athretvari, in what the Corps Parliament (the nation’s lower legislature house) has since pronounced was a violation of the nation’s official external policy of neutrality, declared war and began offensive conventional military operations upon four leading members of the NK. The declarations occurred after the NK announced hostilities and threatened nuclear strikes upon members of the Green Protection Agency (GPA) in an attempt to extort 1.5 billion from the nominally neutral alliance.

While the Athretvar Defense Forces (ADF) executed flawless immense victory after immmense victory against the nuclear armed terrorists, the NK was successful in launching a dozen catastrophic blows against Athretvari. The attacks, while striking and destroying massive chunks of infrastructure and several vital improvements, mostly killed the innocent civilian residents of Athretvari’s greatest cities.

In two major acts of defiance against the terrorists, large sums of cash looted from their treasuries by the ADF were used in the midst of the conflict to rebuild military loses, reconstruct parts of attacked cities and even begin the construction of Bodhisatvani, Athretvari’s eighth great city-state, which shall serve as the administrative capital of the Filipino Palawan Island District of the Natural Territories of Athretvari.

General Luzhe Anké, ADF Deputy Chief-of-Staff reported that the ADF Ground Corps suffered 52,841 casualties, the ADF Tank Corps suffered 1141 casaulties, the ADF Air Corps lost 36 aircraft due to the loss of two airfields, and the ADF Naval Corps lost 10 warships when two naval shipyards were destroyed.

Gen. Anké said that the ADF was successful in quickly helping to erect and sustain brutal naval blockades against the four nuclear powers. Coupled with sustained ground attacks to sap the opponents’ cash resources, the blockades effectively began to starve the terrorist states of vital revenue.

Gen. Anké reported that the ADF destroyed over 8,465 in enemy infrastructure, killed over 193 thousand enemy soldiers, and destroyed over 12 and a half thousand enemy tanks.

ADF Special Corps also suffered an undisclosed number of losses, but reportedly were capable of killing numerous spies and destroying four nuclear devices before the terrorists were able to detonate them.

ATHRETVARI LEAVES GPA

The Corps Parliament declared in a sternly worded resolution immediately after hostilities with the NK concluded, “Insofar as each member of the alliance is committed to the defense of the other, the Government of Athretvari defines by its very nature and being that the Green Protection Agency (GPA) is not and cannot be ’neutral’, and that its refusal to partake within the politics of Orbis does not make it immune from said politics, and that Athretvari’s participation therein is dangerously hypocrital and destructive to the nation’s reputation and national security. Athretvari does remove itself from the GPA and renounce the external policy of neutrality.â€

The Athretvar government informed the GPA that as part of its exit process it would not seek compensation for the estimated 80 million in infrastructure damage alone sustained during the war, and that two basic grants received by Athretvari in the previous 30 RL-days totaling just over 7.2 million were considered by the Athretvar Government as paid back in kind and full.

Members of the GPA leadership initially rejected the terms of the nation’s exit from the alliance, and began hostile diplomatic acts against Athretvari as it sought to apply to new alliances. However the government in Nivárima, the new Athretvar capital, made firm in several private communiqués to GPA officials that it had no intention of allowing Athretvari to suffer any further after the conflict and considered the issue closed.

RECONSTRUCTION CONTINUES WITH NEW NAMES

Normalcy is beginning to return to many of Athretvari’s beautiful canals, plazas and streets as the nation continues its long independent drive to reconstruct from the devastation brought by the NK’s horrific attacks.

As radiation in the major urban centers drops below dangerous levels, expats returning and tourists visiting Athretvari will encounter a new country. Not only are new and modern architectual wonders replacing the charred remains of the nation’s old neo-renaissance buildings, but the names of all of the major cities have been “naturalized†to Athretvar names. The change is in line with Commander-in-Chief Tyro Leif’s desire to remove all vestiges of the nation’s pre-independence ASEAN influences in a nationalistic effort to bolster the country’s cultural identity.