Palpadia Empire
3rd Foreign Affairs Department
Department head Kyeos was so furious. This was due to the Kingdom of Fenn's rejection of Palpadia's request and the failure of the imperial oversight army's mission to punish the Kingdom of Fenn. Never before had the 3rd Foreign Affairs Department suffered this kind of failure, and not even any other Foreign Affairs Department had suffered such a failure. It is a very surprising and worrying incident.
"You'll regret insulting the empire, Fenn..." said Kyeos.
This happened because the Palpadia Empire held dominance over five countries in the civilized areas and 67 outside of them, both large and small countries. For Palpadia, which is a superpower country, such refusal is inexcusable and must be punished against the country. Otherwise, the fear of the Palpadia Empire will disappear, and the Palpadia Empire may lose its prestige among the small countries. As a result, many countries will rebel against the Palpadia Empire. The defeat of the imperial oversight army could make the barbarian countries close to the Palpadia Empire less afraid of the Palpadia Empire. However, future disobedience would cause many hard problems to deal with.
Therefore, the 3rd Foreign Affairs Department sent 22 ships from the imperial oversight army, including the Wyvern Lord Carrier, to punish the Kingdom of Fenn. The dispatch was made to coincide with the military festival held by the Kingdom of Fenn, which was attended by many barbarian countries around the Kingdom of Fenn, so the attack was expected to create a terror effect on the festival participants. The fleet of ships and wyvern lords were to attack the capital city of Fenn, Amanoki, with no mercy and burn it to the ground. This would show the other barbarian countries what would happen if they tried to stand up to Papaldia.
But the result of the attack was shocking. The wyvern lords sent were not heard from; communication was cut off suddenly and without any warning, and after one day, news came to the 3rd foreign affairs department: the imperial oversight army and the eastern fleet were defeated.
From the results of the intelligence data, it was found that all the wyvern lords were defeated by the opponent. The wyvern lords only had time to shoot one fireball, which burned a small part of the Kingdom of Fenn's palace. But what was even more surprising was that the admiral who commanded the fleet stated that they were defeated by only 1 ship, and that ship was smaller than a 100-gun ship. It is not clear from which country the ship came. Currently, the intelligence network of the Palpadia Empire is trying to find out the country of origin of the ship.
The report from Admiral Poquetoire, leader of a fleet of 22 ships from the imperial oversight army's eastern fleet that was sent to the Kingdom of Fenn to punish the country, stated strange things that were beyond common sense as follows:
- Encounters an enemy ship that does not have a sail but can move at a high speed, estimated at 30 knots. The ship only has one cannon. It was estimated that the ship was moving using mechanical equipment and not magic because the mage and magic detector did not detect any strong magic emanating from the ship.
- The ships of the Imperial Oversight Army cannot match the speed and maneuverability of the opposing ships. Therefore, the course of the battle is really determined by the opposing ship.
- The wyvern lords that launched and attacked the ship were defeated by the ball of light that suddenly appeared from the ship, chasing the wyvern lords unavoidably, even though the wyvern lords had maneuvered to dodge. The wyvern lords were crushed to nothing by the explosion of the ball of light.
- From a distance of 4 km, the ship fired its cannon and was able to hit the ships of the Imperial Oversight Army.
- The ship fired 11 times in a row and hit the main mast on a different ship 11 times, causing a mobility kill. The firing speed of the enemy ship's cannon was extremely fast, there was almost no pause between shots. None of the shots on the ships of the Imperial Oversight Army missed right at the main mast.
- The ship did not attempt to sink the Imperial Oversight Army. All ships can retreat intact, ships that lose their sails can be towed safely by other ships. The opposing ships did not give chase as the ships of the Imperial Oversight Army retreated from the battlefield.
- All fatalities were only on the wyvern lord's rider, there were no fatalities on the ship, only injuries.
That report is unbelievable. First of all, how can a ship move without sails? Kyeos knows that there is a superpower called the Mu Empire, whose ships are driven by mechanical devices, but it is a superpower nation. Is the Mu Empire meddling here? Is the Mu Empire want to wage war through a proxy? If true, then things get complicated. Palpadia will be very difficult to win against the Mu Empire. If Mu wants to interfere, they can come up with all kinds of excuses to get involved in this proxy war. It must be ascertained whether Mu has a defense agreement with this country. If so, then it shows Mu is waging a proxy war, and the Palpadia Empire should be careful about this.
Second, the firing range of the cannon was impossible. Among the superpower countries, the cannon-fire distance is no more than 2 km. To nearly double that range, coming from a country outside the civilized areas at that, was simply not possible. Only the second and first world superpowers can exceed the 2 km limit. Also, the existence of a barbarian nation capable of making cannons was a worrying trend. Moreover, the accuracy of the cannon was astonishing—a single shot hit! The cannon was inherently an inaccurate weapon, which is why the Palpadia Empire and all other countries built ships that carried a lot of cannons—the more the better. This is to provide certainty that there is a shot that hits the target on the first or second salvo. How does the enemy ship eliminate the effects of ship movement? Neither the gunship nor the target ship? How to predict the influence of the wind? The whole thing is very confusing.
Third, there is a ball of light that can chase and destroy the wyvern lords. This report simply doesn't make sense. No country has weapons like this, not even HME. From the historical explanation, only the Revernal Empire had such a weapon. Does this have anything to do with the Revernal Empire? But if there is then HME will not allow it.
All of this is very confusing and makes no sense. A country possessing this kind of military capability would be able to spread panic to all other countries because no other country could match it. It was therefore very likely that there was a large superpower behind this incident. The most likely candidate was the Mu Empire, because it didn't seem like the equipment used magic.
One thing is clear: this enemy has ridiculed the Palpadia Empire, and such an enemy must be destroyed. But, because he didn't know who those enemies were, there was nothing to attack. They had lost this round. This news would certainly reach the Emperor. Next time, the homeland would send its elite fleet.
In order to research this new "enemy," the 3rd Foreign Affairs Department began to collect information. This caused all the personnel in the 3rd foreign affairs department to be very busy.
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Meanwhile, in the lobby of the 3rd foreign affairs department building,
Again, the diplomatic team from Myto Empire became frustrated and angry at the refusal of the third foreign affairs department to meet them, even though they already had an agreement to meet.
"My deepest apologies; it looks like you all won't be able to meet the department head today. He has an urgent need." The receptionist said the third foreign affairs department.
"How could it be? Didn't we already have a prior agreement?" said an ambassador from Myto.
"Currently a very crucial overseas incident has developed, which has caused our department heads and all staff to be busy. I'm really sorry. On the orders of the head of the 3rd foreign affairs department, we temporarily do not accept meetings with emerging countries outside the civilized areas, in fact, we do not receive any guests except those called by us. This happened very suddenly and we did not expect it. News of the incident just reached us today. We only received one representative, who happened to have been called by the head of the department because there was something serious that needed to be discussed. Please contact us at a later date, maybe a month after this or later." said the receptionist apologetically.
This made the diplomatic team from Myto very angry. They had been in Palpadia for more than a month, but were unable to meet any official who had at least the authority to oversee diplomatic relations. Now they were asked to come in more than a month away. How much longer would they have to wait? This was an event that would not have happened while they were still in the Galactic Empire.
"If this had happened where we were, the star destroyers would have come long ago." said an aide from the ambassador's team. This caused all the ambassadors to glare at him. But the receptionist, of course, did not understand about star destroyers and why the appearence of a star destroyer could change the opinion of a country.
"Looks like we really need to wait for the Jedi team to help us." said the Gravit ambassador. "Tell the team to immediately depart for Palpadia. Hopefully they can overcome the impasse and arrogance of the Palpadia Empire"
"Alright, we'll come again next week." ambassador Gravit said to the receptionist. "We hope we can meet with the head of the department next week. It doesn't really have to be department heads, but any official who has enough power to discuss diplomatic issues should accept us."
"That seems unlikely, given the circumstances of the events that are currently taking place. But I will tell my boss about this. Hopefully someone will be able to meet all of you." replied the receptionist.
Unknown to them, the Myto Empire itself had caused this incident. This caused the 3rd foreign affairs department to be very busy and not have enough staff to meet with them. In the end, the diplomatic team from the Myto Empire returned to their inn, waiting for the Jedi team to arrive.
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One of the rooms in the third foreign affairs department.
Meeting between the ambassador from Topa Kingdom and an official from the 3rd Foreign Affairs Department
"What did you say?! You aren't sending us any slaves this year?!" the foreign affairs official shouted at the ambassador of the Topa Kingdom.
"We have decided to no longer send slaves from our citizens anywhere, including to the Palpadia Empire. We will not make our free citizens into slaves" replied the ambassador of Topa Kingdom, breaking out in cold sweat while gathering his courage.
"Hmph! In that case, your country alone will be suspended from the technology sharing program from us!!!" said the foreign affairs official.
The Palpadia Empire used its old technology to control the countries under its influence. By providing technology to all countries simultaneously, there is a balance of power in all regions. If a country does not receive technological assistance, then that country will experience a decline in its national strength. This allows the Palpadia Empire to control many countries in the region because those countries will be afraid of losing their national power if they do not get the technology from the Palpadia Empire.
But they only provide old technology, so no country around them can match the technology of the Palpadia Empire. However, the sharing of technology is always accompanied by conditions that are very strangling for these countries, including the sale of slaves from that country.
The technology share was only one of the empire's diplomatic cards. If they wouldn't listen, he would next threaten to stop the export of tools and other necessary and essential items until they gave in... or, that was how it should have gone.
"Technology huh? We have signed an agreement, including a technology purchase agreement, with Myto Empire. The technology they offer is much better than Palpadia Empire's, and they don't ask for much in return except for ordinary purchases, in fact, we got a lot of high-end equipment help for free. Please end our participation in the technology share." replied the ambassador of Topa Kingdom.
"We have also signed a defense agreement with the Myto Empire. They have provided their excellent military technology, and their ships have been patrolling around our country." continued ambassador from Topa Kingdom
It would have been previously unthinkable for Topa to act this way. The Kingdom of Topa ambassador snorted with a smirk, ending the conversation.
The foreign affairs official was surprised to hear the ambassador from Topa. "Myto Empire? I just heard about the Myto Empire. What country is that?" he asked.
Unfortunately, the ambassador from Topa refused to tell about the Myto Empire and just said goodbye.
It was at this time that Palpadia Empire just realized Myto Empire's existence, and they didn't realize that the representative from Myto Empire had just left the building from the 3rd foreign affairs department in anger.
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Kingdom of Altaras
Capital of Le Brias
Palace of King Taara the 14th
King Taara the 14th led a limited meeting with his military advisors to see the military capabilities of the Kingdom of Altaras in order to guard against attacks from the Palpadia Empire. This was because the Ambassador of the Palpadia Empire was getting more and more aggressive toward even King Taara the 14th himself.
"How has the help from the Myto Empire changed the strength of our army?" asked King Taara the 14th.
"Report your majesty. Currently the ground troops are equipped with the same rifles and machine guns that were given to the countries of the Rodenius continent. About 50,000 troops were armed with rifles. Currently training is being carried out." said a military adviser from the army. "In addition, other weapons such as cannons and mortars have also been obtained, and our troops who have obtained them have mastered the use of advanced military equipment."
"What about the rest of our troops?" asked King Taara the 14th.
"Our other troops are also in the rearming stage. We have ordered enough weapons to arm our entire army. But the weapons don't come at the same time, so we can't train our entire army at the same time. We expect in at least another 2 months all troops to be armed, although the ability to use the new weapon will vary among our troops." replied the military adviser of the army.
"For the air force, we have armed the wyverns with machine guns, and they have done a lot of training so they can effectively use the machine guns. In our opinion, although our wyvern's speed is lower than that of wyvern lords, our wyvern's weaponry is much better. There are also 40 F1 fighter planes provided by Myto Empire, but at the moment they cannot be used properly because the pilots still have to train." air force adviser reports.
"Are all of our wyverns armed with machine guns?" asked King Taara the 14th.
"Already, my king. All the wyverns are armed with machine guns, and they have received enough training that they can be considered ready for battle." replied the air force adviser.
"From the navy, we haven't received any ship assistance from the Myto Empire because the ship is still being built. However, we have increased the capability of our ships by installing the C1 40mm cannon, the C2 105mm gun, and the 20mm cannon on the larger ships. In addition, we have also placed the C1 40mm gun and 20mm cannon on our smaller ships. Also, we have added diesel engines to all of our ships, as did the countries on the continent of Rodenius, so as to increase the speed of our ships. At least with our ships now we can fight against the naval power of the Palpadia Empire." said the military adviser to the navy.
"Hmm, Myto himself has placed two of his destroyers in their military base, as well as five other small patrol boats. Also, they have finished deploying their fighter aircraft, the airspeeder. A number of their soldiers are also already at the military base they have built," said King Taara the 14th.
"Does the Palpadia Empire side know about our military increase?" asked King Taara the 14th.
"No, sire, we are meticulous enough to cover up our military rearming activities. All they know is that we entered into a cooperation agreement with a third party, Myto Empire. It seems that they are also unaware of the Myto Empire's military presence in this country. But they are starting to notice the rising level of our technology." answered an advisor.
"Are all those military upgrades enough to withstand attacks from the Palpadia Empire? If it's just the oversight army, maybe we can withstand that attack. But if it's a regular army, it's hard for us to survive." said an advisor.
"Seems like it's not. We still have to improve our abilities. The warplanes and warships are the keys to our security. However, both of them are currently not ready. Moreover, the ships are still under construction. Myto Empire promises the ships will be delivered in 2 months" replied another advisor.
"What we can quickly upgrade is the army. The training and the arrival of equipment are fast enough to increase the capabilities of our army. If we have a little time, maybe the fighter planes can also be ready. If the fighter planes can be ready, then we are sure that no wyvern lords will be able to attack us. Currently, the weakest is in the Navy. We don't have the number of ships and enough firepower to fight the Palpadia Empire, especially the regular navy. Basically we should have more time to prepare," said an army adviser.
"We estimate that within a month, the F1 fighter pilots can at least fight well enough if needed." said the air force adviser.
"In conclusion, we still need more time to be able to improve our abilities. For the time being, we have to take a middle ground. We will give a large number of magic stones to the Palpadia Empire to calm them down. I hope it will calm the Palpadia Empire's side for a while. We must be able to buy time to be able to prepare our strength" continued King Taara the 14th.