Chapter 86

The Cold War III

Oak ridge Tennessee

June 12th 1944

An entire City built to help Develop the Atom Bomb it Amused Captain Alexander to know end, he had easily managed to get access to the security Detail for the site his orders were clear cause minor disruptions to the different sectors that were under the leadership of Enclave personnel.

It had to be delayed until further notice from Sparta forcing the Americans to divert Resources to the Manhattan Project, hell he had already got the Enclave 'President' removed from his position of Vice President due to his failure to keep the project in budget.

He had been replaced by former Enclave Vice President Truman who was not going to lose his new post he had convinced the Majority of the Enclave Leadership to make him the new President and it worked.

Enclave regional Command Post

Chattanooga

Tennessee

June 12th 1944

Major Anderson of the Enclave internal Security had been dispatched by the President to find out what was causing all these delays on the Manhattan Project, many in EIS believed that Spartan Government had sent agents to disrupt them.

He didn't believe a word of it there is no way that Spartan government found out about the project they were more interested in an internal affair of their own nation not a government on the other side of the Atlantic.

"Sir we believe the saboteurs are in the ranks of the security forces posted at the site." This was met with the local leaders disagreeing and saying it was Russians or anti-government factions wanting to see the Enclave fail.

"ENOUGH! this project has already cost the Government more than it originally allocated as of yesterday we have the government has sunk 20 Billion dollars into the project and we have nothing to show for it."

He dismissed the local commanders before he decided to just shoot them, honestly with them running things no wonder they were losing money he had been given a deadline to deal with this infiltration.

America was losing the propaganda war against Sparta as news reels were distributed ab the BBC showing life under Imperial Rule including education healthcare and the plentiful supply of work some of them even showed massive military parades for example the one held in Kassandria that honoured the fallen Egyptian troops.

Hell, Queen Gorgo even had an interview with radio France where she was asked questions about the Empire and there way of live this was broadcasted all over the world with the help of the BBC it reached every corner of the planet.

However, their greatest bit of propaganda came on the 17th March 1944 as Vesuvius erupted once again a Spartan Warship that had docked carrying The Daughter of Queen Gorgo nearby rushed to aid in evacuation of the civilian population while the Spartan Airforce used there specially designed Bombers to drop water onto the lava and fires that started buying time for the Italian Village of San Sebastiáno to be evacuated.

The sight of a Spartan Royal alongside her troops rescuing Italian Citizens on the film reels was damning to any anti Imperial Propaganda the Americans spewed out, for her bravery and service Princess Diana (the actual Princess Diana Kassandra's eldest) was made a Knight of Rome, by the King.

Major Anderson coming back from his thoughts decided to inspect the Fuel station of the facility unaware that his mission here would be useless as Sparta had ordered the Agent to withdraw and Project Ikaros was ready.

Anderson would be awoken that night to the sound of explosions rushing to the now destroyed fuel station to find Captain Johnson dead with apparent agent pinned down by 2 Army Rangers, the agent was a fellow member of the Enclave had bombed the Fuel station after killing the Captain who tried to stop him.

The dead captain however was nothing more than a brick that had been transfigured into an exact copy of the Captain while the real one made his way back to Sparta as were his orders.

The Americans would test their Nuclear Device at the Nevada Test site in July of 44 releasing the footage to the world proclaiming that evil dictatorships were no longer the only ones to possess this Weapon.

The response was not what the Enclave had been expecting the International community was horrified at the test why would the Americans build such a Weapon when there was war on even in the us itself the population itself was split on this new Weapon.

Site Alpha

Province of Persia

Spartan Empire

Kassandra stood with her family and other high-ranking officers scientists and politicians to marvel at the glorious sight before them, the 4 massive rockets of Project Ikaros launched into the sky and once word came, they were in place stage 2 of her plan would begin.

With the Americans facing international condemnation about developing such a Weapon on rumours that Sparta possessed it as well making many nations ask for the empire to respond and they would just before August when stage 2 was set to begin.

July 10th 1944

4 foreign ships left the Ports of Kassandria carrying its cargo for its final destinations of Italy, France, England, Canada, The USA and Mexico, these were the phase 2 of Kassandra's plan it would strike a crippling blow to the Americans propaganda war.

By August 14th in France Italy Britain and Canada the major radio stations had prepared for the switch to be flicked as it where, and in many homes across these nations this included the USA now had Spartan made televisions in there living rooms.

At 10 am that day millions of people turned them on to see the last few seconds of the countdown, even the Enclave leadership watched it just like the royal family's and politicians across the world as the countdown vanished in its place was an image of the Spartan Queen.

"Greetings to all of my citizens and people of the world I am Queen Gorgo 2nd by the grace of the Gods Queen of the Spartan Empire and Pharaoh of Egypt this is a recording that was made on the 4th July 1944, on this day we launched Project Ikaros and no it is not a Weapon of mass destruction as some nations have suggested."

To the shock of everyone the cottage ended and now showed the queen again this time in a different location she smiled at them before starting to speak again.

"Hello everyone I am sure that many of you are slightly confused about what just happened well as of right now this is a live recording, that's right I am speaking to you live directly from my palace in Sparta this my friends is project Ikaros it is our way to spread the truth of Sparta and it's allies of the SRU to the world, as of tomorrow the 15th August your local stations for example the British Empire will have channel 6 where they will play whatever they wish on the first 5 channels will be Sparta and our fellow SRU Nations."

The Enclave leadership sat in complete shock the so called Spartan super Weapon was just a propaganda tool.

" worry not my dear friends all shows on SRU channels will be completely Free however should we realise any Films they will cost a maximum of £5 per viewing, now I shall say farewell my friends leaving you with a documentary of the birth of Project Ikaros I wish you all a good day may the gods bless you all."

With that the millions of people who had watched the speech sat in wonder many of them had been concerned about having the strange metal things on the roof of there homes when they bought these Televisions but the documentary helped them understand that the satellites the Spartans had launched into Space of all things used the dishes on there homes to connect the TVs.

That afternoon stores across the world saw their stocks of TVs be completely Depleted much to Kassandra's joy and amusement the reception of Project Ikaros was far better than the Manhattan Project as she received news from Egypt that more and more TVs were being requested the factory's in Persia were required to recruit more staff to keep up with demand.

The USA may have launched the first strike in the Cold War but Sparta struck back with devastating precision many in the Enclave believed they should ban the purchasing and ownership of these things but knew the economy would not do well the cost of the Manhattan Project had nearly caused the economy to collapse again so soon after the Great Depression, no Sparta may have won this round but the Enclave were determined to win the war.

Authors note: hey people sorry it's been a few days I hope you like the chapter.

Revan Shan 2077.