Deltaria

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Cahtice: Early this morning the internal security agency CUVO and the Special Czarist Gendarmerie conducted over 60 raids accross the country, arresting over 593 individuals and alledgedly dismantling 3 major socialist and republican cells. More raids are said to be conducted in the next few hours in what is described as one of the most intense opposition crackdowns in decades. The Czar, in a televised speech, made it clear that he is determined to rid the country from any influences that "can harm out great empire" and that his agencies are on top of any "terrorist cells" as he himself describes the opposition cells in the country.

After the passing of the monarchy bill any ideology or party opposing the Czar and monarchy where already banned but the law itself was not yet fully enforced. Now after several years of Czarist rule the Czar has decided to actively enforce the law and has ordered all his agencies to put up an active effort in cracking down any anti monarchist sentiments within the nation. The CUVO has already set up a repressive system of surveilance of the country and is training more and more agents in order to be the most effective they can possibly be. The CUVO is also working closely together with the Special Czarist Gendarmerie which is under the direct control of the Czar himself. The Gendarmerie has been conducting its own raids with CUVO intelligence and has cracked down on several protests early on in the Czarist regime its rule. The SCG is feared by many for their ruthless way of doing things as the Gendarmerie has reportedly even tortured citizens in order to gain information and it is known for violating national laws in order to squash any dissent.

Reports have also come in about several high rankings officials in all branches of the military being arrested for alledgedly conspiring with Republicans. This is the latest action in a string of events that has rid the armed forces from any opposition figures. The most important generals and all members of the IMSC have pledged their total loyalty to the Czar.

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Cahtice: After the fall of democracy many within Deltaria feared a total breakdown of personal freedom of expression and the creation of a state that would take away any freedom it could. But, just like with the socialist regime, the new Czarist government allows a wide variety of freedoms to the citizens of Deltaria knowing that if they do not, they could face another popular uprising. While political dissent is brutally cracked down and opposition to the regime heavily supressed most other activities are perfectly fine within Deltaria. The new government does not impose any restrictions on non political freedom of expression nor does it put restrictions on creative freedoms like art, music and other activities.

This policy has allowed a number of Deltarian artists to create products and music without the fear of prosecution. One of these is Lucie Vackova, a upcoming artist that has broke record after record in Deltaria itself and has recently become well known accross Terra with her song "Bad Type" (OOC: Name changed for obvious reasons) which received over 400 million streams in its first 2 weeks of releasing. Now, with her newfound success, Lucie announced a world tour this morning travelling to every continent and visiting at least 2 nations in those continents with a total of 14 nations expected to be visited. Lucie posted on her social media saying she is "so excited" to do her tour and that she is "eternally gratefull for the opportunities given to her"

Lucie her tour is scheduled to begin on the 20th of April this year.


Lucie Vackova her song "Bad Type"

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Stefanisti: The recent appointment of Betislav Barto to the position of Mayor of Stefanisti by the Czar has been met with heavy criticism recently. Barto, who was a former officer within the Special Czarist Gendarmerie, has been accused by many locals of being responsible for the death of several teenagers 2 years ago during a SCG raid in the port city as well as alledgedly being responsible for over a hundred arrests in the city. Many see the appointment as Barto as a attack on the city and over 50.000 residents have petitioned the Czar to remove Barto and appoint someone else to the position of mayor.

The Czar and his office have not responded to the unrest in the city yet and insiders tell reporters that he is not planning to remove Barto anytime soon. Recently many terms of former mayors elected during the democratic era ended giving the Czar, backed by the new constitution, the authority to personally appoint Mayors. Over 200 Czarist alligned mayors have been appointed in recent months with most originating from the czarist institutions like the SCG or Armed Forces. By appointing these mayors the czar hopes to keep a firm grip on both the national and local level. Mayor Barto has already received deaththreats and the national police department has already stepped up security around the new mayor. It is expected that Barto will enact new legislation in the city aswell likely in line with the nationalist policies of the central czarist government.

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Cahtice: The Deltarian navy has finally, after years of work, been fully repaired and partially modernized. The fleet is now once again at full strength with countless of cruisers, destroyers, the Aircraft Carriers, submarines and other support ships are at full capacity and have been fully repaired and refitted. The Admiralty spoke of a "excellent program" that has made possible the "rebirth of the deltarian navy"
With the fleet fully operational once more the Deltarian Imperial Military Strategic Command has now shifted its focus on the Grand Imperial Army, the ground forces of the deltarian armed forces.

For 2 years already the Grand Imperial Army has underwent drastic changes. Moving from a Divisional structure to a Brigade structure, reducing the number of active troops in the GIA from 1 million to 650.000 and repairing and modernizing a large part of the arsenal. Now the army is in its last stages of renewed development as its tank and truck arsenal is being actively repaired and tested once more. With both the navy and army almost back at full strength many speculate about what will happen to the Imperial Airforce. It has historically been the smallest branch in the armed forces and always focussed on better training and modern methods during combat to differiantiate itself. But some within the ISMC have stated that the Ministry of War is considering a expansion of the aerial branch of the armed forces with the new funds made available by the reduction in army numbers. Others state that the airforce will be repaired but will otherwise not be expanded upon.

Nuclear Program continues

In addition to repairing and reorganizing the conventional armed forces the Czar and his Imperial Cabinet have made their intentions in regards to the deltarian nuclear program clear as well. While the former democratic regime discontinued the nuclear program in Deltaria in exchange for international aid the progress made was not lost and instead archived in the last remaining nuclear facility in the country in Darali. This progress combined with the renewed interest of the Czarist government have sparked a new nuclear program to be created. The new program is now fully operational and countless of deltarian scientists are beginning where the former team left off. Now, in a public statement, the Czar confirmed what many had feared for weeks, the continuation of Deltaria's nuclear program.

The aim of the program is to finally obtain a nuclear weapon for the Empire to ensure that its main rival, Vanuku, is no longer as big of a threat as it once was and so that that nation can never harm deltarian citizens again with their nuclear weaponry.


A new reactor being built next to the existing one in Darali

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Cahtice: Old habits seem to die hard. The cause of conflict for Deltaria and Vanuku has always been and will remain to be Jelbania it seems. The nation has been of strategic value for both nations as it has a relatively weak central government, practically no unified armed forces, no real major natural barriers and is basically a land bridge to reach Vanuku from Deltaria or the other way around.
Both nations have used Jelbania as a gateway to the other on several occasions and continued interfference by Deltaria and Vanuku has caused a persistent weak government to govern the country of Jelbania. The nation is now still one of the poorest nations on terra and particularly in the west, has no real armed force, is mostly ruled by local warlords and its internationally recognized central government is filled with corruption and has not been capable to drag the nation out of its problems.

The new Czarist regime in Deltaria has payed notice to this fact and is, just like its predecessors, exerting its influence over the majatran nation. For the past few months with its military rebuilding and its wings once more spreading the government of Deltaria has launched a focussed effort into influencing Jelbania diplomatically. Its diplomats have pressured the Jelbanian central government and several southern tribes to allow Deltarian companies to operate freely in the south while they also managed to bully Jelbanian authorities in signing a trade agreement highly favouring Deltaria and allowing Deltarian citizens to travel to Jelbania without a visa while Jelbanian citizens still need one to visit Deltaria.
Deltaria has also showed its military muscles at the border holding several ground exercises and Jelbanian officials reporting Deltarian aircraft in Jelbanian airspace on several occasions.

Many powers like Vanuku and Istalia but also other nations in Majatra have voiced their outrage at Deltarian involvement into Jelbania as many accross the continent had hoped that interfference in Jelbanian affairs would be over after the fall of the socialist regime but this, clearly, is not the case.
The governments of Vanuku and Istalia, the foremot rivals of Deltaria on the continent, have not officialy responded as of yet but tensions are likely to rise.

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Cahtice: As major reorganizations and repairs on the different branches of the armed forces have been completed the Imperial Military Strategic Command is looking for ways to improve the combat abilities and effectiveness of the armed forces. After first rumours were spread about the possibility of the airforce gaining more prominence within the military the IMSC has now revealed its plan for the airforce during a presentation yesterday in the capital of Cahtice.

The Imperial Airforce will be maintained as the smallest branch of the military and its current airfleet will be repaired and partially modernized, these repairs and modernizations have largely already begun last year but will last till the end of this year. The strategy of the airforce will however change. According to the Chief of the Imperial Staff, Army General Luděk Charvát, the airforce will serve a role of mainly ground support. While the focus of previous administrations had been to achieve air superiority the Imperial Airforce will now maintain a system its commanders call "pocket superiority". This strategy aims at achieving local air superiority in strategic locations accross the airspace in order for ground support jets and other aircraft to quickly and desiscively support ground units. By using the fighter jets and possibly multirole stealthfighters of the deltarian airforce to clear only specific sectors of the airspace where ground support is needed the airforce can properly provide ground support to ground forces of the deltarian army. By focussing on this "pocket superiority" strategy rather then overall air superiority the airforce can focus more on the construction of bombers and other ground support aircraft and shift away from the traditional production of fighter jets. The Airforce will maintain a small but well trained fighter jet force to support in pocket superiority operations where needed while shifting production from MiG-36 fighter jets to multirolefighters like the R-37 and CAS jets like the SU-01 as well as possibly looking at ways to invest in new bomber aircraft. Overall the Imperial Airforce will likely remain the smallest branch of the armed forces.

The Imperial Military Strategic Command also announced a new initiative regarding the ground forces. As it currently stands the newly created Brigades of the army are largely comprised of normal infantry followed by armoured brigades and only a small number of mechanized brigades. The IMSC wants to change this however, investing heavily in the creation of new mechanized brigades within the army. By doing this the IMSC hopes to increase the effectiveness of the army overall, replacing normal infantry units with fully mechanized Brigades. This change of composition also comes with a increased need for the production of additional tanks and vehicles. The private company PRIME Limited has been asked to produce additional armoured personell carriers while the state owned Deltarian Defense Federation has received a government order for the construction of 300 additional T-14 Armata tanks to be completed by the beginning of 4631. These new vehicles, armoured vehicles and tanks will serve as the backbone of the new mechanized brigades of the army supported by well trained infantry. The traditional Armoured brigades mainly consisting out of tanks and motorized infantry will be kept into service as well. These Armoured Brigades mostly consist out of the older T-72,T-80 and T-91 tanks while around 400 tanks currently in these armoured brigades are the new T-14 Armata. By shifting to a more mechanized and mobile army the IMSC hopes to give the deltarian army a new advantage of the battlefield. Where Deltaria normally relied mostly on its strength in numbers the new composition allows the army to conduct quick and descisive operations as well, allowing the deltarian army to not only rely on its numbers but also its tactics and mobility.

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Cahtice: The Deltarian state owned defense company "Deltárských Obranná Federace" (Deltarian Defense Federation), operating since its creation during the socialist era of the country, has been split into two new companies by the Imperial Ministry of Economic Affairs after deliberation with the Imperial Ministry of War. According to the Imperial Minister of Economic Affairs Dušan Brož the DDF had become overstretched and overburdened by the many different assignments it was given and asked to peform. The minister stated that the quality of equipment and machines of war produced by the company had been poor in recent years due to them having to produce deltarian designed ships, aircraft, tanks and infantry weaponry and this wide variety of responsibilities "deteriorated the quality of said weapons and equipment"

The DDF has now been split into two by the state in order to address the problems that the company faced in recent years. The first new company is named Darali Defense Systems (Darali Obranné Systémy) and has taken over all government contracts related to the production of ground equipment which includes infantry weaponry, artillery, tanks and a wide variety of other systems used in ground warfare. The new DOS (DDS in Luthorian) will, as mentioned before, take over all government contracts in regards to ground equipment while also being the primary company to which future contracts will be granted. The company is also allowed to take on private contracts with government permission.

The second company emerging from the split is the Ushalande Engineering Group, this new company will take over all contracts related to naval design and construction. Currently this means that the company wont take over any major contracts apart from small ones related to the reparations of certain support ships. The new UEG is in a powerfull position however as, during the split, the Imperial Ministry of Economic Affairs also put all shipyards, namely the Ushalande Shipyard and the Alazinder Shipyard under UEG control. Making the UEG a mother organization of all shipyards in the country. This allows the new UEG to not only design ships for the state but also construct them in a efficient manner in shipyards basically owned by themselves. The Ministry decided upon this after it became clear during several instances years back that communication errors between the DDF and the individual shipyards caused major delays and even problems persisting after delivery. Now with shipyard and designer connected the IMEA hopes to prevent this issue from occuring in the future.

Production for aircraft has been detached from either company and the government is looking for possibilities in handing aircraft production to a private company if at all possible.

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Majatran Sea: Early morning last monday a strong sound could be heard in the Majatran sea. Upon taking a closer look you could begin the notice warships navigating themselves through the sea as if conducting maneuvers. This was indeed the case. On monday a naval exercise named "NADI" (Naval Arms Defense Initiative) conducted by the Imperial Navy of Deltaria was launched. The NADI exercise was announced several months ago in a joint statement by the Imperial Military Strategic Command and Imperial Ministry of War. They described the exercise its goal, stating that NADI was intended to serve as a exercise for the navy to test its command structure and reaction speed as well as serving as a good training exercise for the ship crews to get familiar with the equipment in real combat situations. In the exercise one Nemec class carrier and one Yegorovich class carrier would partake, with both of these carriers being escorted by their own strike groups consisting out of 4 destroyers, 2 cruisers and 2 attack submarines. Apart from these two carrier strike groups there are also several newly formed "Attack Fleets" participating in the exercise. These fleets (of which there are 3) consist out of several frigates, cruisers, destroyers, corvettes and submarines. With one of the 3 fleets having the only Battlecruiser of the Imperial Navy in its composition. Other ships were left out of the exercise as they were being repaired or kept in reserve as part of the strike groups for the remaining carriers in port.

The first part of the exercise revolved around the newly established Attack fleets. Which have the official task to execute "quick and descisive operations" using their speed compared to a carrier strike group to make the difference in a fight. These Attack fleets where first put up against eachother in several simulated combat situations accross the majatran sea engaging eachother in both long range and close range naval combat. After the attack fleets succesfully finished the first operations of the exercise the two carrier fleets designated to partake in the exercise left their port. They themselves where first tasked with engaging eachother in simulated combat to test the carrier vs carrier potential of the strike groups. As expected by the Imperial Military Strategic Command the Nemec carrier strike group descisively won each engagement, showing the weaknesses of the Yegorovich carrier and proving that the Nemec carrier was a good investment for the Imperial Navy as it is clearly a superior vessel to its predessecor. According to the IMSC these engagements however have also helped the crews and commanders of the Yegorovich carriers. As the engagements of this one Yegorovich strike group has learned that crew valuable lessons that could also help the crews of other Yegorovich carriers. This engagement also helped the Nemec carrier crew to get familiar with the equipment onboard the Nemec carrier and its admiral has also documented every lesson learned so that other crews of Nemec carriers can learn a bit more as well.

After these engagements 1 of the Attack Fleets and the Yegorovich carrier strike group set sail back to their respective ports in Deltaria as their role in the exercises was over. The Nemec carrier strike group was now pitted against two of the Attack fleets and tasked with either completely neutralizing or routing the fleets. After a day of navigating the three fleets met eachother in the north of the majatran sea. The simulated battle that followed caused half of the carrier strike group to be eliminated (in the simulation) and 2 Admiral Gorshkov frigates as well as 2 corvette's of the Attack fleets to be eliminated. But, due to the losses in its protection fleet, the Nemec carrier was forced to, together with its remaining escorts, sail away from the attack fleets in order to avoid being hit. The remaining attack fleets however, with their superior speed, catched up to the carrier group and managed to eliminate 2 destroyers before being forced to halt their pursuit due to the loss of a cruiser and submarine. However this was seen by the IMSC as a tactical defeat for the carrier strike group and even though the carrier itself was not damaged in the simulation it being forced to retreat was seen as a defeat. In this part of the exercise however the effectiveness of the Attack fleets was for the first time truly proven and the IMSC was overall happy with the result as they also found out that the Nemec carrier was best utilized during these kind of engagements by engaging the enemy fleet from afar.

As the three remaining fleets still participating in the exercise were now moving back to port the Carrier strike group had one last task, just off the coast of Deltaria the strike group trained the amphibious and ground assault capabilities of the fleet. The Nemec carrier launched its jets of its deck to bombard the shoreline and simulated defense positions placed there while the cruisers in the strike group also launched their armaments to precision strike positions on the shore. After this bombardment and with jets still in the air to provide air support the amphibious assault vehicles, developed by the socialist regime and reintroduced several years ago, where send to the beaches with in them infantry of the Národní Námořní Sbor (National Marine Corps) which is the marine infantry component of the Imperial Navy. The ZBD amphibious assault vehicles and NNS marines stormed the beaches, showing some lack in training at times but generaly showing average skill during their operation. After this last operation of the NADI exercise the carrier strike group also returned to port.

Overall the IMSC and Imperial Ministry of War describe the NADI exercise as "highly succesfull" with chief of the imperial staff Luděk Charvát stating that:

These exercises have given the IMSC, Imperial Naval Command and the Ministry of War a valuable inside in the effectiveness of our fleets and have provided valuable lessons to our naval crews. By training so extensively we keep our people focussed and learn them the ins and outs of their own ship, jet or equipment giving them a extra edge during any engagement.

The Imperial Ministry of War states that it does not "turn away" the possibility for the exercise to be repeated in the future.

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Cahtice: Deltarian pop icon Blake (real name: Oto Beran) known for hits like "One Trance" and "Passiondude" released his new album titled "So Far Wrong".
Deltarian music has been rising in the charts globally as young deltarian artists are making a name for themselves accross terra. Lucie Vackova is one of those artists rising to the top charts with her unique sound rather quickly. But Oto Beran, known by his artist name "Blake", has been in the industry for over 20 years now starting at the age of 17. Blake has released album after album becoming a staple of the pop industry of Terra. Now, almost 3 years after the release of his last album, Blake has released a new album named "So Far Wrong". The album consists of 18 songs in his familiar style. Already one of these songs named "Say Whats Fake" has been highly popular amongst fans gaining 50 million streams in just a few days. Blake is currently touring in northern Artania but is expected to tour Majatra within the next few months.

People on social media are extremely enthusiastic about the new album stating that it is one of their favourites and "a masterpiece". The album in total has received a combined 400 million streams accross terra, making it one of the most succesfull albums of the year already.


The song "Say Whats Fake" out of the new Blake album "So Far Wrong"

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Cahtice: The Imperial Ministry of Economic Affairs has expressed their intention in further developing and expanding the high speed rail network of Deltaria and completely rebuilding the International Airport in Cahtice. According to the ministry the current high speed rail network is "insufficient for the needs of the deltarian populace" the ministry, after most major expenses in regards to the military were completed, received the go ahead from the Czar and his advisors to start the development and expansion of the high speed rail network. Around 4 billion LOD has been initially reserved to start construction on additional rail for the high speed network with around 10 billion LOD potentially being available for the construction of additional trains, stations and, if needed, even more rail.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs stated that it is their goal to "connect all deltarian regions with eachother through the deltarian highspeed railway network" and that first a new railway line will be constructed between Cahtice and Hadjoheims, the capital of Doron Akigo, after which another line will be constructed between Cahtice and the capital of the Duchy of Alazinder. If these two lines are completed Dissuwa will be next in line. The ministry has appointed a "Commissioner for Development" to lead the massive project, this commissioner named Leopold Adámek, is currently looking for high speed train manufacturers to buy trains from and will also lead the rail construction part of the investment project.

In addition to improving the high speed rail system of Deltaria the ministry has also hired known deltarian architect Anna Strnadová to design a new international airport for the capital of Cahtice that will be completely replaced. The new airport will replace the aging "Cahtice International Airport" that is being overburdened by a increasing number of deltarians travelling abroad. The new airport, which will be named "Cahtice International" will be located on the opposite side of Cahtice as opposed to the current airport. The goal for the new airport is to be "capable for the future" and be able to process at least 50 million passengers a year. Well over the current capacity of 20 million for the current airport. The airport must also feature a greater varierty in shopping possibilities and improved ground control to better guide planes to landing lanes. More lanes will also be constructed in this new airport as oppossed to the old one. The new location for the airport was strategically chosen by the Ministry and project engineers to ensure that Cahtice could potentially serve as the central hub for majatran air travel, making sure that it indeed reaches the 50 million capacity it aims to achieve. Anna has already released several 3D models of the new airport and the Ministry is "pleased" with the results. Construction of the airport is said to start next year.


A early 3D model of the new "Cahtice International" airport to be starting construction next year