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"Hi"= Speaking
'Hi'=Thinking
"Hi" = Flashback
'Hi'= Flashback thinking
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"Hi!"= Flashback Yelling
Prologue
Private Military Achieves, Dated June 23rd 2018
10:00 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: French farmer Louis Adrien Bellerose reports the sight of a Romanesque gate in the middle of a nearby farmer's field, report recorded &initially ignored.
10:13 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: French farmer Henry Allard reports the sight of a similar Romanesque gate in the middle of his field, report recorded but still ignored.
10:27 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: Two additional farmers Marie Babin & Martin Couture report a similar structure in a neighbor's field, reports recorded and in response French constables Martin Deforest & Antoine Fosse are sent to investigate the reports.
10:45 hrs-Provence: Local TV & radio stations begin to spread the word or a mysterious gate having appeared in the middle of a local farmer's field. However due to the outrageous nature of the claims & the ensuing lack of evidence most persons within the region ignore, claiming it to be the result of either overly active imaginations or a slow news day.
10:50 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: Report from Martin Deforest & Antoine Fosse confirms the statements of the four previously mentioned farmers while also adding an additional 7 reports to the original 4, 2 of which are able to describe the moments in which the gate first appeared. Recommend that the Police Chief on Duty, Madame Antoinette Duvalier, pass the report to the National Gendarmerie headquarters in Paris.
11:45 hrs.-Paris: General Richard Lizurey receives the telephone from Madame Duvalier and declares the organization of all available fGendarmerie units in the Provence region to be mobilized and sent to the source of reports in anticipation of anything exiting the gate.
13:00 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: The small field, and subsequent surrounding area, had been put into glorified lockdown and all of the local populace evacuated in case of a rapid deterioration of the situation while also being in preparation to receive support from military units.
13:09 hrs.- First news reports of the gate's manifestation begin to appear on French national news networks and while the news it taken seriously in France, internationally it fails to make any major headlines and as such is mostly ignores
14:00 hrs.- Mougins, Provence: First hostiles exit from the gate, large looming giant like figures that refuse to respond to any commands from Gendarmerie officers and begin acting aggressively towards any humans they see.
14:03 hrs.- Mougins, Provence: Gendarmerie Officer Albert Rousseau becomes the first Frenchman to die at the hands of one of these beings, is eaten alive, followed shortly afterwards by C.
14:04 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: Command is given to indiscriminately open fire upon any and all of the giant like figures until they have all been neutralized, early efforts of neutralizing the hostiles by traditional means prove to be ineffective. This lack of effectiveness forces Gendarmerie officers to give small amounts of ground within the small perimeter.
14:10 hrs.-News of fatalities in recent attacks in Provence cause the previously uninteresting news story to become globally recognized with online & traditional news outlets adding fuel to the fire by depicting the image of unstoppable, Godzilla like creatures appearing almost out of nowhere in the fields of rural France. In an attempt to prevent the spread of further fear driven chaos the French government orders the French regional transportation councils & SNCF(Société nationale des chemins de fer français/ French National Railway Company) to suspend rail services to and within Provence.
14:29 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: First giant is slain after receiving many shots to its nape, reports of weakness quickly spread throughout the local troops.
14:32 hrs.-Footage of the first take down goes viral.
14:45 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: Two additional hostiles are taken down by Gendarmerie officers and ground previously lost is slowly reclaimed with the occaisional encountering of resistance
16:00 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: Combined units of the French National Guard and local French Army arrive in Mougins and, with the help of reports from Gendarmerie officers, neutralize the remaining hostiles and secure the initial area around the small gate. With the arrival and deployment of tanks the small field is entirely secured and soldiers begin the process of setting up command posts in case of a seconds wave of hostile activity.
16:50 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: After the careful dissection of the hostiles the first civilian casualties are recorded, a total of 18 (9 male, 3 child, and 6 female) moved to local coroner's office by National Guard units for further identification.
17:00 hrs.- Mougins, Provence: Mougins and the surrounding area are officially declared secure, however rail services in the region are still suspended until further notice.
17:40 hrs.-Mougins, Provence: First flight of unmanned French drones enter into the gate to begin forming reconnaissance on the land scape on the other side. While images are initially kept secret from the public, they quickly dismantle the idea of a single, unified, or even modern enemy being on the other side causing President Emmanuel Macron, Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly, and Chief of Defense Staff General Francoise Lecointre to begin considering the idea of forming a humanitarian rather than punitive military expedition.
18:00 hrs.- Mougins, Province: Of the 18 bodies found in the giant's stomachs only 8(5 male, 1 child, 3 female) are identified David Louche(58 yrs.), Anton Gage(55yrs.), Emile Joubert(50yrs.), Abel Lachapelle(45yrs.), Marie Lane(45yrs.), Adele Lambert,(32 yrs.) Alexia Leon(25 yrs.), Gilles Merle(9 yrs.). Bringing the total amount of fatalitiesup to 48, 8 identified civilian, 10 unidentified civilian, and 30 identified law enforcement/military.
18:15 hrs.-News of identified bodies released by the French government to the public.
21:00 hrs.- Final French drone returns back to its base outside of the gate allowing for President Macron to return to the Presidential Palace and prepare to address a shocked nation.
Excerpt President Emmanuel Macron's Speech to the French People on June 25th 2018, roughly 24 hours after the attacks
My fellow French citizens I come before you today with unfortunate news. Yesterday, June 24th 2018, is a day that will eternally exist in infamy in our nation's history as we, the French people, were suddenly and most maliciously attacked by a group of unknown hostiles who originate from a gate which currently resides in the south of France. This incident has left any and all persons involved, be they French or foreign, shaken & most definitely unnerved as it currently bares no traceable connection to any of the well known terrorist organizations on any international watch lists. For any persons who have been unfortunate to lose any friends or family members in these most recent attacks I must tell you now that my sympathies and condolences go out to you for the sadness of losing a loved one in such a manner should not be forced upon any human being. However, I would also like to allow a moment to be set aside in order to properly honor the services and sacrifices of the men & women who valiantly and without any form of hesitation came to the aid of their fellow countrymen and foreign visitors alike. My special condolences go out to the family of Officers Albert Rousseau & Officer Albert Rousseau who were forced to make the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.
I wish to also allow for the people of this nation to be consoled with the knowledge that I intend to go to the United Nations to propose the following policy.
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Finally I wish to ask for a moment of silence in remembrance of the lives lost on such a sunny summer day, while also hoping that you all may hope for much brighter news to be sent our direction. Thank you.
News Excerpt from CNN July 3rd 2018, roughly 10 days after the original attacks.
President Trump issued a statement this morning in regards to the recent speech & proposal made by French President Emmanuel Macron in the United Nations Assembly saying...
"We will not agree to commit any American soldiers to go running through any imaginary gate until we have an idea of what's on the other side"
In addition to this White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders coo berated this stance adding that it would...
"Violate the America first police put forth by the Trump administration" while also adding "It may require the withdraw of U.S troops from more important theaters to supplement a ghost front in a land far away amongst a people we know little about".
In contrast to this Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that his government would be willing to send a select few military and possibly air force units to aid in the supplementing of the current operation. This makes Canada the fourth nation, and the first non-European country, to agree to join the coalition putting alongside of England, Germany, and Belgium, this has also caused the question of whether or not other Non-European nations may be compelled to join.
President Putin also elected to comment on the recent chain of events, citing the question of possibly joining the coalition to...
"Most definitely be on the agenda as an issue to be discussed in his planned meeting with President Macron this upcoming week"
Some members of the American & European press find this statement to be not entirely truthful, citing that the Russian president may elect to use this recent chain of events as possible leverage to get previously agreed upon sanctions to be lifted in exchange for military support. But also this rise of Russian interest has caused the waiting eye of the world to turn towards the Asian theatre of politics to see what may occur there, this waiting game has been spurred on by statements of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, quoted as being heard saying that...
"The Japanese government has for many recent years had a tight relationship with France and as such would not be entirely opposed to allowing a small number of Japanese military units to aid in a limited number of military activities in the new theatre as long as they did not violate any pre-existing Japanese laws on military involvement".
With this recent statement many eyes have turned to the Chinese and while no news has come from Beijing and no statements have been made about the whole affair many political theorists do not believe that the General Secretary of the Communist Party & Chinese President Xi Jinping will remain quiet much longer. However, the question of the intentions of the operation and the strategies that will be employed cause all eyes to come back to President Macron and the policies laid out in his speech to the United Nations Assembly...
"From the limited amount of surveillance footage & photos we have gathered the likeliness of this being a well coordinated attack by a central mastermind has been deemed incredibly unlikely. The people who reside on the other side of the gate in question have been found to be living in dwelling that are directly out of the Medieval era and as such the goal for this expedition has shifted from being one of a punitive nature to one of humanitarian intentions. Instead of aiming to militarily neutralize the people in question we intend to possibly pursue a police of humanitarian instruction under military protection to aid in the furthering of a people"...
President Macron went onto explain his intentions to use combined detachments of the French Foreign Legion and Air Forces before going onto to make the following analogy.
"As the saying goes 'if you give a man a fish you feed him for a day, if you teach a man to fish you feed him for life' we could pursue a policy of neutralizing any hostile entities we come into contact with and entirely ignore the people who these entities have victimized. But that would only temporarily solve the problem, for even though it will be a swift resolution when these people inevitably fall on hard times and are unable to help themselves they will look to us to aid them and as such we will be forced to expend more money aiding their government rebuild while possibly being forced to house any refugees that enter into our country as a result. However, in aiding them to build a better economic & political system we will be able to eventually completely extract ourselves from the situation and leave a stable government behind that we will not need to prop up, saving us from being forced to spend a good deal of our nations' budgets on such an unsuccessful venture"
Despite the good intentions of this policy some people worry whether or not it will work, citing the failures of such policies in numerous African countries, The Republic of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan while also wondering who will be required to foot the bill of such operations.