Davostag

[Augustus]

 

Government Agencies Enacts Special Measures in Full Force after State Council Meeting

7 August 5629 | Kivonia, Davostag

 

Davostagian soldiers of the 2.Pansarskyttedivision outside city of Eliseborg, island of Bindeborg.

 

With the internal security measures imposed by the government of the Kundrati Legionary State that forbids Davostagers from leaving the country as well as seizing control over the management of the Västmakoniska gruvindustrin AB's ("West Makonic Mining Industry limited", VGAB) Kundrati-based operations, the rikspresident summoned the State Council (the supreme advisory body of the state) to discuss the crisis. What was specifically said during the meeting is not known and will probably not be revealed in detail any time soon. But what we can deduce from it is statements, directives and actions taken immediately after by state officials.

 

To begin, the Minister of Social Security Management, Karl Manner, and the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Nora Erasdotter, suddenly announced that they were resigning from their positions. A day after the rikspresident approved their reentry into the Davostag Army officers corps and appointed the two as key officers the Davostag Army General Staff. Both Manner and Erasdotter were well known for having nationally topped the military youth education system and later the Kivonia Military Science Institute. From certain sources, it said that the Military High Command had specifically requested the two's reenlistment after the State Council meeting. What their roles will be is to be seen, but looking at their specialties during their times at the Military Training Front for Future Cadets and later Civil Cadet School, one might expect the two to take on a field command position.

 

The National Development Commission (RUK) issued a directive for the various economic sectors in Davostag to make preparations, contingency plans and take other measures in order to not get caught on the bed in a serious crisis. While the Davostag Corporative Organization (DKO) organized several meetings with trade and employers' unions throughout the various sectors in the country issuing similar directives as RUK. Official documents from the All-State Defence Company (ASFK) shows that 6 new Taab JAS 41 Gyrfalcon, 3 new Markovic 85, 1 new Nyson-class submarine, 15 new Kivonian Artillery Hunting Radar, 14 new Girafour Radar System, 14 new Stridsfordon 91, 16 new Blida FH88BW L52 Artillery System, 18 new Patgb 480, and finally 6 new ASFK D-72 Gungner, are to be prioritized immediately by the defence industries and expected to be ready soon.

 

The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure, who has been gathering hundreds of transport vessels at the islands of Bindeborg, has officially reported that they have now reached one thousand of various sizes. Mostly small and medium. This due to public donations and aid in the quick production, purchases and acquisition of them. The Central Military Commission, nominally intended to provide civilian oversight of the Armed Forces, has announced that they will take a step back from inquiring on military matters, as most members have other duties on the side of their role in the CMC, they have explained that this will not cause much issue and that the decision is temporary until regional affairs have calmed down. With this, the Armed Forces have essentially been allowed to become completely free in their movements.

 

While the Ministry of Agriculture has not made any public statement, documents and other reports reveal that the Ministry, in cooperation with RUK and the Ministry of Commerce, is providing public and private actors in the food sector guidelines in regards to food production, storing and provision upon a serious national crisis. Riksbladet has been able to acquire some information that could reveal that the said actors in the food sector have been in contact with the Armed Forces through the DKO and the Ministry of Agriculture.

 

For the time being, the last major action taken by government forces is the deployment of the 4th Army Corps, composed of the 1. Bergsjägardivision ("Mountain Infantry Division"), 2. Pansardivision and 3. Infanteridivision, totalling 28,700 soldiers; as well as the 5th Army Corps, composed of the 2. Pansarskyttedivision ("Panzergrenadier division"), 6. Infanteridivision and 7. Infanteridivision, totalling 28,400 soldiers. With the already deployed 3rd Spezeg Brigade and the 8th Spezeg Paratrooper Brigade, with 6,000 soldiers each, the total military deployment of the Davostag Army on the islands is about 69,100 soldiers. Reinforced by the Air Force's 7 Taab JAS 41 Gyrfalcons, 12 Sven JAS 40s, 6 Markovic 85s, including a remnant reinforcement to the partially deploy Bindeborg and Northeast-Artanian fleets, thus numbering a total 13 Kivonia-class corvettes, 8 Långstad-class corvettes, 5 Nyberg-class corvettes, 3 Vermillion-class corvettes and 7 Sevescia-class submarines; which are said to be expanding their patrolling the Lievenian and Unholy Seas deeper into international waters. The two fleets are joined by 100 Spezeg soldiers each.

 

Riksbladet has tried to reach the Military High Command, the Ministry of Defence and including the relatively inactive Central Military Commission for a statement on the causes for these measures. But none has been given and no sources from within has confirmed anything, showcasing that the military is tightening its grip on information coming out from the organizations. On top of this can we also say that the State Security Bureau (SSB), who have laid low in the recent decades, had sent a directive to us and most likely other media outlets to not cause any unnecessary security risks with scandals or revelations that could harm the work of the government in the coming months. In light of all this, one must point out that there has only been a handful of times where such an atmosphere as this one has swallowed Davostag and the Davostagers so ruthlessly, usually on the more fateful periods of history.

 

News report written by Peter Åkerman.