What would be in your letter of last resort?

"From this moment on:

All bottlecaps become currency

.32 bullets shot at the head will make a "bloody mess"

All healthcare to be recieved through stimpacks.

Pip-boy 3000's to be handed to all survivors

& Finally

Don't toutch my Stuff!

Signed

Capn' $qu!ff

Former Supreme Overlord & General Dictator of the UK"
 
Capn' $qu!ff said:
"From this moment on:

All bottlecaps become currency

.32 bullets shot at the head will make a "bloody mess"

All healthcare to be recieved through stimpacks.

Pip-boy 3000's to be handed to all survivors

& Finally

Don't toutch my Stuff!

Signed

Capn' $qu!ff

Former Supreme Overlord & General Dictator of the UK"
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lol
 
Morals be damned. Mine would be:

"Destruction cometh; and they shall seek peace, and there shall be none." – Ezekiel 7:25

Give them hell.
 
I dont think these letters would be as FPS related as one would hope, if it were me, i would command them to retaliate with intent to cause as much financial based destruction followed by loss of military arms and transport.
 
Wow, I can't imagine what it'd be like to read that letter and knowing it's all in your hands now.

As for what I'd write, if the UK was mostly destroyed, then I'd imagine it really wouldn't matter if we retaliated and nuked them back. I'd instruct them to go all out and obliterate them as much as possible.

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In the control room the executive officer and captain open the safes together. They each have a part of the combination.
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You'd be pretty screwed if one of them decides to die of a heart attack or something just as they're running down the corridors to the safe. :p
 
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Russians had/have a similar system called "dead hand" more of an automated answer machine really, in the way that if it detects a nuclear attack it screws the world and launches pre planned warheads, or something to that degree...

Gotta hope that bbc4 transmitter never goes down for more than 4 days..
 
mast3r said:
I dont think these letters would be as FPS related as one would hope, if it were me, i would command them to retaliate with intent to cause as much financial based destruction followed by loss of military arms and transport.
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The options are something like:

  • Retaliate with nuclear arsenal
  • Do not retaliate with nuclear arsenal
  • Use your own judgement
  • Surrender vessel to Her Majesty's AUS/NZ/CAN or US command

Callaghan has said he would've gone with the first option, Wilson probably the second.

Ultimately it's an interesting topic as it concerns the failure of the deterrant.....

G-MAN2004 said:
You'd be pretty screwed if one of them decides to die of a heart attack or something just as they're running down the corridors to the safe. :p
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Which is why you have more than one bird. Something our government forgets when scaling back our fleet.
 
The weapons engineering officer then takes the trigger that will fire the missiles from a small safe above his console. It’s the handle of a Colt 45 pistol (the Trident system is an American design) with a wire running from its butt. His men are studying screens and complex controls. The mood is one of intense concentration.

‘Command WEO weapons system in Condition One SQ for strategic launch.’

The captain’s voice comes over the loudspeaker. ‘The WEO has my permission to fire.’

‘Supervisor WEO, initiate fire one.’

And then the weapons engineering officer squeezes the trigger to the most devastating weapon ever devised. It clicks softly.

‘One away,’ he says — and with that the missile would be gone. It cannot be destroyed inflight. It will travel too far, too fast for there to be any hope of interception. Once you hear that click, as one senior submariner told us, ‘you’re no more than 30 minutes from the end of the world’.
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Imagine being the one to press the trigger, knowing that in half an hour you will have caused ultimate destruction. It'd probably be so overwhelming I'd do an evil laugh whilst pressing it.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
Imagine being the one to press the trigger, knowing that in half an hour you will have caused ultimate destruction. It'd probably be so overwhelming I'd do an evil laugh whilst pressing it.
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You'd follow orders, launch and then probably go and throw up. And probably put a bullet in your head.

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
 
Well considering that no one ever listens to Radio 4 they would never know if an attack was happening, too busy listening to Radio 1 or something :p
 
^^ from brief reading apparently it is actually a trigger, rather than a button for instance... makes it all the more grim,

EDIT- ahh never mind- someone already quoted that
 
ojrules said:
Gotta hope that bbc4 transmitter never goes down for more than 4 days..
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If it does theres a pre programmed backup transmitter offside which broadcasts a pre recorded tape of music or something.

It kicks in after x ammount of seconds of silence, believed it be about 30 or so.
 
what? so the trident system still relies upon bbc 4 transmitting? !! .. also, what makes the trident system so stealthy?/ submarines in general, or is that for a different thread....
 
it doesnt rely upon bbc4, but if they cant get hold of anybody and all radio contact has gone dead, they are to take the sign of BBC4 not broadcasting as a sign that the UK has been nuked and all wiped out.

As for trident, its about the fact that the missiles are in a subarmine, somewhere in the world, and nobody knows where.

yes you can detect them by sonar, but given the whole world to go at, where do you start ??

The idea is you can strike your opponents before they've even got chance to start looking for you.

Fixed missile silos of course dont move, so can be the subject of a pre-emptive strike, pearl harbour style.

No such danger with trident as our enemies wont know where they are.
 
ojrules said:
what? so the trident system still relies upon bbc 4 transmitting? !! .. also, what makes the trident system so stealthy?/ submarines in general, or is that for a different thread....
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Very briefly:

  • Submarines are amazingly steathy
  • Rises to launch depth
  • Unleashes hell
  • Sub disappears (or gets destroyed post launch detection)
  • Trident missiles travel at an unfathomable speed (~6000m/s)
  • Target = KABOOM

Radio 4 will be a check in a list of things. Think about it, if you can't reach government or military bases... the BBC is a good place to try! Secure networks could've crashed or something.
 
ojrules said:
what? so the trident system still relies upon bbc 4 transmitting? !! .. also, what makes the trident system so stealthy?/ submarines in general, or is that for a different thread....
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well submarines can go under water which is what makes them stealthy so

1) you cannot see them from sats or planes
2) you cannot see them via radar..

or am I missing something?
 
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