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The landship was slowly pushing on to the east, tearing up the thick snow of the northern tundra as its colossal caterpillar tracks kept the whole thing going forward. A large army consisting of tanks and IFVs was following all around it. The larger and heavier tanks driving to the sides of the landship, while many of the lighter tanks that weren't on vanguard duty were driving in the landship's tracks, so they did not have to drive through the thick layer of snow. Far to the front drove the vanguard, consisting of light and medium tanks outfitted with blades to push aside the snow to drive quicker, and with extra communication systems so they could communicate with the landship fleet's (an army of mechanized vehicles together with a landship is called a 'fleet' in the Lanist Khaganate) main vehicle, the landship. As the landship fleet moved to the east, it claimed a lot of territory for the Lanist Khaganate, and slowly, the AIR was building new roads, factories, mines and many more things after it while in the south, where the border between the Khaganate and unclaimed land began, there were great fortifications being constructed to prevent any enemies from breaking through and flanking the landship fleet, as the many natives and city states to the Khaganate's south favored blitzkrieg-like tactics, and because of the mostly featureless terrain of the tundra they could quickly overwhelm the landship fleet before it even knew there were enemies on the way.
General Katie Anderson was sitting in her office, situated somewhere in the middle of the landship. She was currently studying an ancient map that they she had been given by and old man, the leader of his tribe who immediately surrendered, and gave her a map that according to him, would lead to great treasure. Logically of course she wanted to take the riches for the rest of the Khaganate, and so she was currently deep in thought at where it might be. Then she figured it out, and quickly called for the captain of the landship, Jord Artac, Enthusiastically telling him to go east-south-east. She also contacted some of the subordinate officers that were in charge of the various groups of tanks and IFVs that were driving all around the landship, and told them the same thing. Jord Artac went to the bridge, on top of the landship, and said "Navigator, please set course for bearing two two point five." And slowly but surely the landship and its fleet moved towards the southeast. While they were driving the daily Kurultai meeting started in the capital, and Katie was of course required to attend, and so she turned on the large screen that was on one of the walls in her office. It was a bit blurry at first, but then she could clearly see the rest of the Kurultai. She noted that General Nurzhan was also only a screen rather than a real person, concluding the Khan must have sent him away to the south to protect the Khaganate's southern border and make sure the landship fleet wasn't flanked. After a while of driving contact was suddenly lost with the fleet's vanguard, and after an hour or so three great holes could be seen, going deep underground. The purpose of the holes was unknown, and the landship fleet prepared to avoid them, but then suddenly another hole opened up on right under the landship's front right caterpillar track, and the landship could stuck, tilting forward and to the side slightly as it tried to escape the hole. All of a sudden, thousands upon thousands of strange creatures the size of small horses flooded out of the three holes in front of the landship. They all looked identical and were humanoids with ash-grey skin, 4 red glowing eyes, and abnormally long arms. They walked on both their arms and their legs, only ever stopping to attack something. General Anderson initially didn't know what was happening, but captain Artac did, and he immediately ordered the Landship to fire upon the horde of creatures. He then contacted General Anderson, and she immediately ordered the many tanks to fire on the creatures. And so the great battle of the Eastern Frontier began.
The great thunder of cannons began slowly, as more and more tanks, self-propelled artillery and anti-air cannons began shooting while slowly moving to form a circle around the landship, the noise produced by the fighting increased. Soldiers got out of their IFVs and started shooting the strange creatures with their automatic weapons. Soon the snow was red with the blood of the creatures, but the line was still holding strong. General Anderson however foresaw that this wouldn't be the case forever, and immediately asked General Nurzhan for assistance. Arman reluctantly agreed, rather having her beg for his help later, but he couldn't really decline in front of the Khan, and so he immediately gathered his soldiers nonetheless, and began to formulate a battleplan to help General Anderson. He didn't really want Katie to be dead, because who could he try to outclass then? The battle continued relatively well for the Landship fleet near the eastern frontier, but they would not hold out forever, and soon the alien creatures would break through the line, and who would save them then?
General Katie Anderson was sitting in her office, situated somewhere in the middle of the landship. She was currently studying an ancient map that they she had been given by and old man, the leader of his tribe who immediately surrendered, and gave her a map that according to him, would lead to great treasure. Logically of course she wanted to take the riches for the rest of the Khaganate, and so she was currently deep in thought at where it might be. Then she figured it out, and quickly called for the captain of the landship, Jord Artac, Enthusiastically telling him to go east-south-east. She also contacted some of the subordinate officers that were in charge of the various groups of tanks and IFVs that were driving all around the landship, and told them the same thing. Jord Artac went to the bridge, on top of the landship, and said "Navigator, please set course for bearing two two point five." And slowly but surely the landship and its fleet moved towards the southeast. While they were driving the daily Kurultai meeting started in the capital, and Katie was of course required to attend, and so she turned on the large screen that was on one of the walls in her office. It was a bit blurry at first, but then she could clearly see the rest of the Kurultai. She noted that General Nurzhan was also only a screen rather than a real person, concluding the Khan must have sent him away to the south to protect the Khaganate's southern border and make sure the landship fleet wasn't flanked. After a while of driving contact was suddenly lost with the fleet's vanguard, and after an hour or so three great holes could be seen, going deep underground. The purpose of the holes was unknown, and the landship fleet prepared to avoid them, but then suddenly another hole opened up on right under the landship's front right caterpillar track, and the landship could stuck, tilting forward and to the side slightly as it tried to escape the hole. All of a sudden, thousands upon thousands of strange creatures the size of small horses flooded out of the three holes in front of the landship. They all looked identical and were humanoids with ash-grey skin, 4 red glowing eyes, and abnormally long arms. They walked on both their arms and their legs, only ever stopping to attack something. General Anderson initially didn't know what was happening, but captain Artac did, and he immediately ordered the Landship to fire upon the horde of creatures. He then contacted General Anderson, and she immediately ordered the many tanks to fire on the creatures. And so the great battle of the Eastern Frontier began.
The great thunder of cannons began slowly, as more and more tanks, self-propelled artillery and anti-air cannons began shooting while slowly moving to form a circle around the landship, the noise produced by the fighting increased. Soldiers got out of their IFVs and started shooting the strange creatures with their automatic weapons. Soon the snow was red with the blood of the creatures, but the line was still holding strong. General Anderson however foresaw that this wouldn't be the case forever, and immediately asked General Nurzhan for assistance. Arman reluctantly agreed, rather having her beg for his help later, but he couldn't really decline in front of the Khan, and so he immediately gathered his soldiers nonetheless, and began to formulate a battleplan to help General Anderson. He didn't really want Katie to be dead, because who could he try to outclass then? The battle continued relatively well for the Landship fleet near the eastern frontier, but they would not hold out forever, and soon the alien creatures would break through the line, and who would save them then?
@Darkod974I will when your area of the map stops looking like this
and starts looking like a proper nation
and starts looking like a proper nationIf you don't go attack or stomp (in any way) people that are NOT equal in tech to you unless both players want to that'd be great. This is a message for everyone
Lanist Khaganate, Shipyard Alpha
It was a week after the Western Beach Incident, as it was called now. The landship had finally been finished, and its ceremonial launching was today. Yuri Lanist checked himself in the mirror, adjusting his brown tie. He was wearing a tailored suit, one he had specifically requested to be made for the occasion. As much as he hated it, he couldn't really show up to one of the most important days for the Lanist Khaganate wearing jeans and a T-shirt. He combed his black beard and hair, and thought he looked good enough. He got out of his luxurious penthouse appartment right in the middle of the Khaganate's Capital city, Avarga, and took an elevator straight down to a classified metro station, part of a larger network underneath the capital designed to transport government officials such as members of the kurultai to and from the places they needed to go. It was laid underneath the normal metro network, and connected several important building all throughout the city, there were even some tunnels that lead far outside the city, to various other places in the Lanist Khaganate, although those required stronger vehicles than metros to get there in a reasonable amount of time. Coincidentally, Yuri was about to use on of those vehicles. The Maglev train arrived at the exact time it was supposed to, and he boarded it. In less than a minute, the train was already across half the city, then it stopped. Some more government people, none important enough for Yuri to personally know, got into the train. The train continued to the Shipyard Alpha, the place where the finished landship was. It had been built there by the AIR together with a few humans to oversee the process.
Ten minutes later, the train exited the tunnel, and Yuri could see the shipyard from far away already. It was the afternoon, and the shipyard reflected the yellow light like a beacon, very visible over the vast tundra and taiga the Lanist Khaganate had its territory in. The shipyard was titanic, and it was getting bigger every moment as the maglev train got closer. As it kept growing, Yuri started to see more and more details, from the Khaganate flag painted on its side, to the bow of the landship already sticking out from the massive facility it was built in. Eventually, the maglev arrived at a station that seemed tiny in comparison to the rest of the building. Yuri exited the train, and was immediately greeted with both a crowd of people standing in the reception area that had been specifically built for the day's event, and the smell of delicious food. There were all sorts of people there, members of the Kurultai, but also soldiers, workers, and many more. All of the people in the room were formally clothed, just as Yuri was. Along the way to the buffet, Yuri came across General Nurzhan, who was telling stories about his time down in the south of the Khaganate, where he was sent to fortify the area by General Yun after the WBI, to a group of junior officers. The junior officers gasped in amazement as he told stories of how he built fortresses and bunkers in days rather than the weeks it would normally take, due to his, as he called it 'surperior skill at the construction of fortresses'. He also passed along Stephen Michel talking to General Yun about the whole diplomatic situation with that strange military army from the east. "Oh yeah, " He heard Stephen say from a distance "I should still give the orders to send those planes out to explore the rest of the world, I'll do it as soon as we get back from this stuff." Near the buffet there stood Isaac Plant, the minister he talked with about the strange meteoric object a week earlier. Isaac walked together with Yuri towards the buffet.
"Sir, I think we should start considering starting up a space program." The minister of Science said "It would be nice to support our men in the field with actual intelligence from satellites, we've also already found multiple foreign-made objects in orbit, suggesting that either this new nation we discovered, or rather that discovered us a week ago, has made those satellites, or more likely that there are multiple nations on this planet."
"I agree with the idea of having a space program," said the Khan "Very well. After the launching ceremony is over, I want you to contact scientists you know that are familiar with the field of aerospace engineering. I also want you to set up grants for people who can do research towards rocketry."
While they were walking towards the buffet, they came across General Anderson, who was wearing a red evening gown, nicely complementing her red hair. "General Anderson, you are looking lovely today," Yuri said, "What do you think about the idea of satellites as support for our troops."
"I think it's a very good idea," she replied, slightly blushing "It will help a lot when deciding on where to expand. I think it will help us reveal the location of that weird army we say last week as well."
The three finally reached the buffet. Yuri got a plate and picked up some food, carefully tasting it first. It was delicious, and he told a waiter that was passing to send his compliments to the chef.
After an hour of eating, drinking and talking to various government officials and officers from both the Kurultai and not from the Kurultai, it was time to pass on to the main event of the day, the ship launch. The crowd of people slowly walked towards the next area, which was a large chamber, missing one wall. The chamber was about as high from the ground as the middle of the ship, and it was right at the end of the shipyard, near the bow of the landship. There were a lot of tiered seats near the wall opposite to the missing wall, and there was a small podium next to what essentially the landship itself for the important people to stand on. Everyone took their assigned seats. General Anderson had been placed far away from General Nurzhan, Yuri noted as he was walking towards the podium in front. Good, He thought, wouldn't want their bickering to ruin anything. He stood on the podium, where there was a small lectern with a microphone on it. He started talking, his speech being sent on television all over the Khaganate:
"Greetings, Khanians. Today is the day we celebrate an amazing achievement in the history of the Lanist Khaganate on this planet. We have managed to succesfully build, and we will succesfully launch a landship in the span of a few months. As you might know, the succesful completion of such a massive-scale project is extremely costly, and many sacrifices have been made by everyone, although most have been made by you, the average worker, sitting at home watching this speech right now. With this landship, we will be able to protect our nation, the glorious Lanist Khaganate, and secure more resources for our people that have made so many sacrifices to get to this point. This landship is a living example of how we, mankind, is capable of rising above our internal conflicts, of rising above strife. That we can take any blow and shrug it off, and that we can conquer anything that faces us if we want to. The brave men and women that will fight beside this vehicle will gaze upon it and will see: this is hope. That is why I would now like to introduce the captain of this vessel, Jord Artac." Jord stepped forward from his seat on the front row and walked towards the podium. "And I would like to ask General Anderson, who will command the landship as its general, to throw the traditional bottle of vodka against its bow." General Anderson stepped forward and walked towards the podium, where she received a bottle of vodka. She stood on the edge of the room, and threw the bottle of vodka. It was a perfect hit, and as soon as the bottle hit the landship and broke apart from the impact, the Lanist Khaganate's anthem started playing. All of the people in the room held their right hand over their heat, and as soon as it was finished they all started clapping, Yuri included as he clapped for the people who build the landship. He ended his speech with the classic, "I have been Khan Yuri Lanist, thank you," and walked off the podium.
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Phalanx Alpha was not impressed by what they were seeing, which was not that surprising considering the fact that this was their life on a day-to-day basis. Martinez continued talking into the walkie-talkie "Command, here Phalanx-2 again. Entity confirmed non-hostile. Anomalous properties entity was talking about earlier confirmed, although according to herself she only uses weather and air abilities. Possible AD-scenario if it does become hostile. Also apparently she calls herself 'Ashnah'"
"Alright, Ashnah, I'm going to need you to listen very well, alright?" James said "The direction where you are headed at the moment is the Lanist Khaganate where I am from. Millions of people live there, and we can't have you going into that area with those powers. So if it's possible, we would like you to turn back now so no one will get hurt. Understood?"
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James was about to tell his name when he hestitated. As a member of an organization that was at least supposed to be theoretically classified, he couldn't tell anyone who he was or where he was from, or else crucial classified information could leak out and spread to the rest of the world. He wasn't going to tell his name to a random anomaly he was supposed to get rid of somehow. After a short amount of silence, he answered "You can call me Sentinel, he said with his signature Polish accent." It was a code name from a system that Phalanx Alpha had decided to implement for situations like this one, where civilians or sentient anomalous entities such as the Lima-type humanoids could not know their real name, but they had to make up something to avoid danger.
The man next to James, Martinez, picked up his walkie-talkie as well and said. "Command, this is Phalanx-2, according to itself, the entity is omnipotent, and has powerful shapeshifting abilities. We have yet to see any proof or conformation that this is true, although the meteor story the scientists shared earlier would definetly be proof for this idea."
"Acknowledged, " Command replied, "Moving entity up to threat level orange. Evacuate immediately if it turns hostile."
"The man has a point. Can you prove your supposed abilities?" James asked the woman.
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General Anderson put her hands to her mouth, and shouted as hard as she could: "We don't like you either! And we'll shoot you too if you ever get back here!." She jumped off the top of the dune to where Khan Lanist, General Yun and Diplomat Michel were. She was visibly excited they were going home, while it was still very late in the night and she was still very hungry. "I have to be completely honest," Stephen said, "I had no idea what that guy was saying. Didn't even catch his name. Did any of you understand what he was actually saying?" "No, and you did not catch his name because he did not give it" General Nurzhan said calmly, trudging from the summit of the dune, trying not to fall in his heavy power armor or else he probably would not be able to get up, "He did say something about 'militarist army' or something. And I think he did not think he appreciate the flag General Anderson planted."
"Well, we worked together well this time didn't we Arman?" Katie said, as she punched Arman friendly on the shoulder.
"Definetly Katie" and he did the same, but he forgot that he was wearing a full suit of power armor, and his punch hit her so hard she ended up one meter away in the sand, her body armour preventing a dislocated shoulder.
Katie Anderson stood up again, getting rid of some of the sand on both her face and in her hair. "You don't have to punch so hard asshole. Now that I think of it, it was definetly your fault the man was so angry. If you hadn't threatened them immediately, they would not have responded in kind."
And as soon as they both were walking back to the inland fortress, the feeling of camaraderie they both had on the hilltop was gone, and the endless bickering continued.
"They're both around thirty years old, but they always act like children when they are near eachother." General Yun said with his gravelly voice. "Well, we got the job done, but I wish we could've done it better," he continued.
"I agree," came from Stephen, "It's not a good idea to immediately make enemies with people we do not know. I will order a plane to immediately fly to the west, as that seems to be the most probably point this mystery nation is at. Wait, did you just say both are thirty years old, but General Nurzhan already has white hair"
"I don't know how he accomplished it, but he is the same age as General Anderson, even though he looks much older than her." Xun replied.
"Well, blame those" came from Khan Yuri,"They come onto our territory, build a military encampment there, and then they act all surprised when we want them to leave. I would've just gone away. And I think Nurzhan's stoicness may have something to do with it. It makes you look older when you don't smile."
They started walking back as well, following the two angry generals.
Finally, after what seemed like a lot longer than a day of travel and hostile diplomacy, the party of five arrived back at the Khaganate's capital.
"Well, I hope you did not completely screw over this nation while we were gone." Said Yuri to the few members of the Kurultai who were lingering in the government building for some reason. Extreme fatigue had set in the party of four men and a woman, so everyone had fallen to being informal.
"No Sir," The minister of Science, Isaac Plant replied, "However, while you were gone, an interesting event had taken place right outside our nation. A meteor had impacted onto the planet right to the east. I had authorized an expedition with military escorts to take a look at the impact site, but all they found was a woman with wings slowly coming towards our nation."
"I see, is Phalanx Alpha on the job?" Yuri asked. Even though he was the Khan, he like many others in the Khaganate saw the Omega Order as heroes for the important work they protecting the Khaganate against alien threats and the like.
"Yes, " said Isaac, and it was all Khan Lanist needed to hear. "Alright everyone, listen up," he said, interrupting the minister, "The daily kurultai meeting for today will be scrapped, and instead everyone has earned themselves a day of rest." As he finished those words nearly everyone that had been to the beach went their separate ways, too tired or hungry to stay with the others for that moment.
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"Ugh, I hate those type of people. Their camp is on the wrong end of a couple of coastal artillery cannons, inside what could easily be seen as point-blank range, and they're still stubborn enough to not care. Very well. Tell them who we are." Said Khan Yuri. Stephen Michel quickly wrote a small note using pen and paper he took out of a briefcase he had brought with him. He then handed the note to general Nurzhan. At the same time, he gave a flag of the Lanist Khaganate to General Anderson who was no longer exhausted, presumably due to the sound coming from the megaphone only a few meters from her ear. Arman started reading the note out loud. "We are from the Lanist Khaganate, and you have infringed on our territory. We would like you to leave now, or our next shot will not be a warning shot" There was no reason to tell that some of the most important people in the Khaganate were there, as it could put both their mission and their lives in danger. After general Nurzhan was finished speaking General Anderson climbed to the top of the dune and planted the flag, standing proudly next to Arman, her green military gear and long red hair contrasting with Arman's bright yellow power armor and short white hair, their rivalry having less priority than making a good impression at that moment.
All across the coastline, more of the same coastal defense guns found enemy targets, and aimed at the Third Expeditionary fleet.
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Before answering her question, James picked up his walkie-talkie. There was a second of radio static as he searched and found the right frequency. "Command, here Phalanx-1, the anomaly is a Lima-type presumed non-hostile humanoid entity. Anomalous features include glowing wings and flying. Except for the wings she is anatomically similar to a female human. So far there have been no attacks"
Then James turned to the strange human and said: "We are from the Lanist Khaganate, and you are approaching our territory at the moment after landing here on this planet. We would like to know who, or rather what, you are."
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It was now very late in the night. About half of the soldiers on the top of the dune were sleeping, while the other half was keeping watch on any activity from the fortified encampment about 100 meters away. Some of the soldiers had made their own fortifications out of wood, rocks and sand to protect them in the event of incoming enemy fire. General Anderson was getting very hungry, and very tired. She hadn't eaten a few hours before the daily meeting of the Kurultai had started, and while the rations that the soldiers had brought with them were nutritious enough for a few hours of intense combat, they could not make up for a lack of eating for more than half a day. She laid down to prepare to sleep when General Nurzhan woke her up with a "You know you're not supposed to be sleeping on the job" comment. Katie shot him an angry look and said nothing.
Suddenly, General Yun picked up his walkie-talkie and said just one word: "Now". Then slowly all soldiers that were sleeping were woken up by their comrades that had been watching the encampment, and in unison lit their flashlights and pointed them at the beach, lighting up the encampment with blinding light, as well as aiming their weapons at the fortified encampment. Diplomat Stephen handed General Nurzhan a megaphone, and he climbed to the top of the dune, as he was wearing an experimental suit of power armor that he had found laying around in the helicopter that brought them to the coast a few hours ago, so he was the only one that would be safe in case the people on the shore started firing.
"Hello unknown people over there," He said while standing on top of the dune "You are in our territory and we demand you identify yourselves and leave immediately, or else we will open fire." After he said those words the coastal guns sitting on both ends of the crescent-shaped dune fired a warning shot right over the encampement into the water. Katie meanwhile was too tired to say anything insulting about what Arman was doing.
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The few observatories that the Khaganate had at that moment had been tracking this suborbital object as soon as they saw its approach. The astronomers stationed there thought it was just a simple meteorite, an event that happened commonly, although they would just burn up in the atmosphere most of the time. From the suborbital trajectory the scientists could calculate the impact site of the object, and it was surprisingly close to the Lanist Khaganate. So close in fact, that one of the astronomers contacted Isaac Plant, the minister of the Ministry of Science, who was free at the moment because of the abrupt end of the day's Kurultai meeting. Isaac agreed to help set up an expedition towards the predicted impact site, and but a few hours later it was already on its way. At the Khaganate's border a few IFV's got assigned to escort the expedition, as the land outside Khaganate territory was seen as unsafe. They encountered nothing on their way, and the Melanija Regina Expedition, as it was now called after the astronomer that had predicted the meteor-like object's impact site first, arrived safely at their destination, and set up in large circle around the impact site.
A few hours later, their efforts were rewarded, and they could see the green cylinder landing perfectly at the anticipated place. They also saw it melt and form into a human person right before their eyes. And while the scientists were amazed, the military was not. The local commander that had been sent on the mission to escort picked up his communicator, a smart-phone like device, and called his boss to tell him that they have found something weird at the impact site. The boss in turn informed Omega Order, a highly secretive and classified organization dedicated to fight against aliens, the paranormal, and many other non-conventional threats the Lanist Khaganate might face. Only the highest military officials may know of this organization, and the local commander's boss was one of them. Nevertheless, the organization's existence was sort of an open secret, as Omega Order was well known by the Khanians as an organization that fought and protected the Khaganate against the unknown.
James "Sentinel" Maleski was not having a good day. He was smelling like a mixture of rotten eggs and human feces, owing to the escape and subsequent elimination of one of the strange creatures that the Omega Order contained to study, that he had been sent on a mission together with his task force, Phalanx Alpha, against. After the monster broke out, it soon overwhelmed the facility with its horrible stench and Phalanx Alpha had been sent in with gas masks to get rid of it. They did so swiftly and effectively, but the gas masks did not prevent the smell from getting through his body armor and stain his clothes. He just finished up changing and only washing his short, brown hair when he received a SCRAMBLE alert. He immediately ran to his designated briefing room where most of Phalanx Alpha was already waiting. As soon as everyone was there, their commander began speaking
"At 2:00 AM, an unknown object came from orbit and landed at a location here, east of the Khaganate," He said while pointing at a projected map, he continued, "After touching down, this object melted, and transformed into a female human with wings that flew off towards our nation. I want you to make sure this creature does not reach our territory, as we do not know what it's capable of and is likely to be dangerous, if possible capture this creature for further study. Understood?"
"Yes sir!" Everyone replied, and they went towards the armory to pick up all of their weapons and gear. "I hope this one doesn't stink as much as the previous one." James jokes to a man named Martinez, one of his closest friends, and the team went of towards the dropship they used to deploy into missions. Barely five minutes later, the VTOL dropship took off with nearly everyone on board, and immediately accelerated to Mach 2, its maximum speed. Barely fifteen minutes later, the dropship arrived at its destination and everyone jumped out.
All around the female human, strange men and women suddenly fell out of the sky and dropped in a circle around her, pointing their rifles at her.
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Meanwhile, the Kurultai had come together to continue their meeting deep in the night while Yuri and the others were still absent, and had decided to carry out General Yun's plan, and they gave the order to expand a little bit towards the arctic to set up a few scientific outposts there to start studying the region better.
It only took an hour for enough soldiers to assemble near the edge of the real pole. They all came from former nations of Earth such as Russia and Canada, or arctic and tundra worlds the Khaganate had colonized, and thus were well adapted to the cold climate of the northern pole. Their vehicles were all winterized as well, and so the first of the Khaganate's expansions into the arctic began.
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