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Eight years ago, a few private investors, companies and scientists, sick of being held back by the laws, religions and races of the world decided they would make their own country. They invested trillions of dollars and bought out a very large chunk of Australia, declaring independence, forming a government, a perfect infrastructure, education surpassing all other countries, everything. The native language, after some debating, was decided to be Esperanto, a language designed more than 120 years previous to be perfect, with no irregularities.
Within four years, the country’s population grew and grew, many people drawn in by the prospect of a perfect, atheist, democratic society. Scientists from all over the world flocked there as their new home. The education system was near-perfect as well, creating intelligent, but also highly creative people, who could make the most amazing pieces of art and literature while simultaneously cloning a sheep. It was a utopia of culture and science, above and beyond all others.
Within the country were the most advanced scientific research centres in the world. Not held back by religion, race or stupid laws, they pushed the boundaries of science further and further. Using stem cell research, which was banned throughout the rest of the world, they had found cures for three kinds of cancer.
At the heart of the great landscape of the country dubbed Lumiĝo by its inhabitants, which meant ‘Enlightenment’, was the NCNE – Nacia Centro por Nuklea Esploro – the National Centre for Nuclear Research. Within the huge complex was a particle accelerator 150 miles in diameter, using the latest techniques to accelerate particles to the speed of light, and smashing them together. Using some strange techniques, they had managed to make antimatter, electrons that defied the laws of physics, and most significantly, Black Holes, which would suck in matter and spew it out again yesterday. After a little tweaking, they made a miniscule particle accelerator to recreate the situation, modified the black hole to release it after being sucked in and not before, and put it into a missile.
The military force of Lumiĝo was relatively small – only around 500 people - although highly advanced. They were very closely related to the NCNE, as well as many other research centres. The military were mainly based in the air, reasoning that it is always better to be able to move in three dimensions rather than two. They had advanced tactical planes, spy planes no larger than a fist, and missiles that were not only invisible to radar, but also to the naked eye, using unique refraction technology… although they haven’t yet worked out how to make the large trail of fire out of the back of a rocket invisible. Being a mostly peaceful race, the people of Lumiĝo preferred to only have the highly advanced weapons for peacekeeping efforts and as a deterrent, and would normally not use them, preferring EMP grenades, which would disable enemy weapons, but not actually cause harm.
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Despite the initial outroar from the Christian church about the atheist (and supposedly evil) Lumiĝo being responsible for the nuclear disaster in Canada, they weren’t. The Lumiĝian equivalent of the CIA or MI6, however, did have a few leads. One pointed in the general direction of China, whose relations with the west had been more and more tense over the last few weeks. The other pointed to the US government, which seemed absurd, although was backed up by some significant evidence. For now, the Lumiĝian authorities decided they would not pursue any further investigations, although would help with some peacekeeping efforts. The Alpha squadron was called in.
The Alpha squadron was one of the top three squadrons in the military forces of Lumiĝo, along with the Iota and Omega squadrons. The Alpha squadron were specialised in fast, precise attack, using some highly advanced jump-jet style planes, with some of the most powerful computer systems available. They would scan the surroundings, find targets and civilians, select a weapon, fire it, and destroy the target without harming any civilians. Oh, and it could do this 4000 times a second, selecting the targets that posed the largest threat and destroying them first.
The Iota squadron were a slightly more advanced squadron, who wouldn’t use so many pretty computer systems, but could deliver very fast attack in a very short space of time. Again they had jump-jets, but these ones were slightly faster, and a lot more manoeuvrable. They were designed for war, and when it came to delivering devastating attack they did it very, very well.
The Omega squadron was a smaller squadron of just four planes, rather than the eight and six of the Alpha and Iota squadrons. They were designed for destruction of buildings, bases, strongholds and bunkers or enemies. Featuring an advanced defence system, and some of the powerful Black Hole missiles, they delivered only destruction. To test them, a nuclear bunker was made with 17-feet thick titanium walls, and after testing, nothing was left but a little molten metal.
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The eight planes of the Alpha squadron shot across the Indian Ocean at more than three times the speed of sound. Their mission was simple – fly over the skies of London using the plane’s combat mode, take out the bomber planes, and leave. At the current speed, they would reach England in under four hours.
Three hours and fourty-three minutes later, bomber planes crashed harmlessly into the River Thames, blazing in fire.
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