Monkeypants

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It has been a millennium since mankind fell upon the fires of judgment, and precious little remains of the world that was. We know it as The Great Cataclysm, an enigmatic disaster that tore continents asunder and erased all we had accomplished. Many tell interpretations of the event, and precious few clues have been gleaned from the scattered remnants of the old world, but in the face of time it seems the knowledge of what led to the terrible reckoning of our past is all but lost.

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More than a couple decades have passed...

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@MonkeypantsBTW, you said that you have problems with when somebody's profile mentions they are "leaders in X". Presumably you have similar issues with wording like "best in X" or "among the best in X".
I say that you're a bit too sensitive here.
You need to take these with a grain of salt. Given the malleable nature of RPs there's no such thing as absolute best. So anyone who claims that only means that they're "very very good in X". It pretty much implies a kind of specialization or strength of the said faction. Nothing more.
I wanted to say this to you before but I got caught up in other things. Now I did.
Hopefully this could help you in the future.

@Willy Vereb

Absolutely doesn't help. I've heard it all before and its just frustrating.

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@Nerevarine I like what you did with your history!

Island of Hong Kong, sounds so weird lol.

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<Snipped quote by Isotope>Dirty bombs are neither that lethal nor anywhere close to an actual WMD. If you wish to kill as many people as possible by effecting their biology, toxins and pathogens are still your best bet. Even then nerve gases are hardly economical for such things and actually quite easy to protect against.

While it's a bit more problematic to defend against radioactive pollution it's also far less effective. Generally unless you rack up a huge amount of them to one place it would only effect you through skin contact or ingestion.
Even if a nuclear bomb would accidentally fall on the road next to your house at best you need ask your neighbors to take you in until the cleanup arrives. Radiation does not spread far without some medium carrying it away. And even if it's spread you need considerable amount of it to be anywhere close to dangerous via skin contact, far more so if you want it to endager the target by just being within its vicinity.

For all purposes dirty bombs are more like terror weapons rather than anything effective. Poison gas is kinda the same, especially when the target is at least remotely prepared against it but at least they can be far-far more lethal than radiation. They also cause far worse deformities.

So yeah, a missile with radioactive trail might be an environmental concern, even more so if the missile crashes into the water supply. But thinking those as their main effect as a weapon is a big fat joke. They only terrify people who have no idea how these work.
Again, they can be dangerous and have negative environmental effects. But so is firing lead bullets.

@Willy Vereb

No wmd's. Just no. Fission power is cool and very appropriate but please no to anything that is nuclear, be it radioactive dirty bombs or true nuclear bombs... Please no.

Or Chem or bio. Unless seriously agreed upon by two parties. (mustard gas can be fun to write about for some reason.)

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That's fine, just say that west lamonia primarily uses purchased equipment and vehicles from the NAU.

That'd give you plenty of leeway.

And for your navy, keep it simple, just put down that they use modern navy vessels. One line still gets the point across.

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@Brink_

I just wanted to make sure there was still some sort of relation between both nations. sounds good to me.

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@The Nexerus

Dude, just go with it?

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@Brink_

Ok, so since you changed our entire history like that, what is our updated status? is the nations still good friends? allies? gotta communicate with me here.

Pre-history is imperative for an nrp that is past the whole first contact stage.

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@Brink_

So our nations broke up? :(

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@Sigma Ok, I got an aircraft for ya, the F-66. It'll be readily available for you to start with.

And from my gathering, Most history was lost.. but obviously some had to survive to form the basis of certain ideals like with my nation. I doubt anyone would ever know the full scope and scale of what the world was but mere fragments of the past. The NAU, although it has certain base documents that made the core of its operating system, there is no record of who they fought, what the world was really like.. etc etc.