The East PacificBoard

The ad break ends, just as the camera catches the vehicles firing their first volley.
The hundreds of shells roared downrange, smashing into and through the massive Workers, bringing the beasts down. Simultaneously, the helicopters let loose with their auto cannons, bringing down the Warriors. The attack seemed to be going well so far. Then, the second wave began to charge out - to be met with hails of withering fire from the infantry as the tanks reloaded their main guns.

Machine guns blazed up and down the battle line, as more and more corpses of The Beings began to pile up in front of the entrance to their cave. The second group of soldiers soon were in place behind the entrance to their lair, to continue bringing down the Enemy. The plan appeared to be going off without a hitch. Around the nation, there were grins as classes were paused to watch the news broadcast, people stopped working to watch it on office televisions, and the nation held its breath. It seemed, after years upon years of simply holding off the Enemy, the tides were turning.

"As you can see here the battle is progressing amazingly!" The man called into the mic over the gunfire. Behind him, another thunderous volley sounded off from the cannons - the shells slamming into the Enemy with cacophonous explosions. The frame shook, then suddenly everything fell still.

"It appears the fighting has paused." A few stray gunshots sounded out, but those too were rapidly hushed. The camera crew and reporter climbed out of their jeep, and began to slowly make their way up past the tanks and into the battle line. That's when it happened.

A massive purple pulse, filled with demonic energy. It was so powerful it put nearly all the Brethren that'd reported to the battle out of action, and revived every single one of The Beings. All at once, the creatures reformed, and charged forward. And from behind them? A massive creature, like a millipede with the head of a dragon burst out into the opening.

Then, the troops all opened fire. Unfortunately most of the dragons, who'd been right up close and personal with the Enemy were rapidly crushed under the oncoming swarm. Helicopters released their massive payloads of highly destructive missiles into the swarms, and the tanks opened up with everything they had, their fire rate increasing to insanely high amounts. Rockets fired from the battle line, slamming into the newly revived enemy forces.

It was too little though, and far too late. The forces were forced into a retreat, the camera abandoned in the dust as they retreated as quickly as possible. From behind the opening, those soldiers continued to blast away into The Beings. But the battle was lost.

They had done no damage to the Enemy, and had lost nearly 80 people. The area would be quarantined for now. But the battle was over.

The camera continued to record the massive millipede like being slowly moving around, trampling over Workers and grabbing Warriors out of the air to eat whole. Still living injured humans were slowly killed through having their back pierced slowly by one of the thousands of legs, and then it was gone. A new species was discovered. A Titan.

The International Customs Authority (Spanish: Autoridad Aduanera Internacional, Unterlaken German: Internationaldüanautorita, German: Internationale Zollbehörde, Arabic: الجمارك الدولية انتداب, Mandarin: 世界海关管理局, French: Autorité mondiale des douanes, Russian: Всемирный таможенный орган) is an intergovernmental authority which encourages trade though the streamlining of Customs protocols. It also aides in the confiscation of counterfeit merchandise, and potentially hazardous shipments.

It was founded in 2030, and has 5 party states. It is headed by General Secretary Shmuel Adas.

International Customs day is celebrated on March 3rd, which serves to raise awareness for the dangers that customs workers face every day, and highlight the importance of customs in the scheme of everyday life.