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INES II: Gone is the Old Guard
- Thread starter Imago
- Start date
Update: 2006
Peaceful Events
With NADTA at peace within the confines of North America, the massive free trade agreement the constituent countries had set up began to bring economic prosperity.
Trade between Cascadia and the Northern Collective picked up.
Partially spurred by the efficiency of the utility monopoly corporatists at Shin-Ra, Cascadia succeeded in major economic growth.
(+1 Cascadian ASP)
Riding a wave of patriotism, the Cascadian military junta agreed to democratic elections in 2007 and urged political parties to form and prepare.
The company known as Shin-Ra dredged up a new, enclosed, and private port somewhere in Cascadia north of Portland. As the year passed, Shin-Ra spread its economic influence across the continent, with marked trucks shipping materials as New York.
As part of the general wave of North American postwar economic improvements, the Theocratic Republic of Deseret continued to financially recover, though said progress was quickly stifled by government overspending.
(+1 Deseret ASP)
A run of assassinations occurred in the American Federation, making the people wonder about their government’s involvement in a new war.
(American approval decrease)
Confederate President Xavier Suarez created the Confederate Expense Bureau, which served to organize tax payments and generally make the government more efficient. The nation greatly recovered from the mishaps of the year prior.
(+2 Confederate ASP)
Some of the Tunisian economy disappeared due to overspending.
An assassin named Mr. Egorov shot and wounded Xavier Suarez while shouting “Long live Comrade Putin!” He was then killed by Suarez’s bodyguards.
Persistence paid off for Hugo Chavez in Cuba and the Caribbean as heavy Venezuelan investment forced the region into something approaching prosperity.
(+1 Venezuelan ASP)
The Earth Liberation Special Projects Group stabilized its income by offering services in data management and industry upgrades.
Poland reacted to the various events of World War III by declaring martial law and deciding to suspend elections until further notice. Before anyone could get angry at Warsaw, the government tried to redirect its people’s rage by declaring war on the People’s Republic of Europe.
(See Military Events)
A book called The Development of Races became widely promulgated in the Constantinople Federation. Within the text, races were divided into four categories. The exemplar of the first and highest category was of course the Greeks, though a door was theoretically left open for other worthy races to rise to the same level. The second category was mostly the domain of the Russians, who were considered important but not overly so, and the third category belonged to the Turks, who were deemed influential but “no good.” The fourth and lowest category was occupied by explicitly named groups like the Albanians, Bulgarians, and Croats, which were the most downtrodden of the races under Cronus Xanthou’s Dark Eagle Party regime. Interestingly, the semi-official text said very little about Islam, perhaps opening the door for the exiled religion to eventually return to the lands of the DEP.
A bullet fired from the gun of a Hellenic socialist and meant for Cronus Xanthou was intercepted by a Ukrainian who made the ultimate sacrifice for his Igetis. Though the identity of the fallen hero from the north remained unclear throughout the year, Xanthou seemed to be deeply affected by the patriotism of a non-Greek. As a burial took place for the honorary Hellene, Xanthou declared the liberation of the Northern cultures. Henceforth, most citizens north of the Danube were accorded almost all of the privileges of the Greeks. Unfettered and desirous of prestige within the regime, many Ukrainians wholeheartedly took Greek names and adopted some Hellene customs, ironically creating the beginnings of a fusion culture north of the Black Sea.
(Constantinople approval increase)
By some diplomatic oddity, the militant Constantinople Federation was adopted into the DFI-NADTA Technology Fund. After all the democrats’ advances had been integrated into the CF’s huge army, the Igetis decided to test his soldiers’ mettle.
(See Military Events)
The Constantinople Federation completed construction of a wall along the nation’s border with the People’s Republic of Europe.
Vast portions of the Arabian Umma’s economic potential disappeared into an unknown project, much to the dismay of the quizzical populace.
(Arabian approval decrease)
ASEAN directed some propaganda against the Arabian Umma’s system of governance, but the most impressive of its international efforts came in Pakistan, where a radio blitz encouraged the people to rise up and overthrow a Karachi government that had acted like a mindless pawn in world affairs while ignoring the people at home. Various events spurred counteractive patriotism in areas like the Punjab, but further afield in old Iran, the Persians decided that ASEAN was a powerful international force that would help them win their struggle. They rose in an organized liberal revolt.
(See Military Events)
FEAR instituted conscription, legalized religion to help control the masses, and attempted to amp up industrial production. The Virgin Lands Program continued.
(FEAR approval increase, +20 FEAR conscript divisions)
It seemed as if one assassin or another tried to kill Vladimir Putin each month, and several times news got out that the First-Citizen was severely injured, but he always reappeared in the best of health, ready to continue serving as a frightening tale for disobedient children.
As events in Indonesia caused the remnants of the Imperial government to become increasingly dependent on FEAR, Putin strong-armed the Emperor into allowing Japan independence as a socialist satellite state under Vladivostok. The Japanese themselves took up their new internal autonomy without much fuss.
(+Japan)
FEAR heavily looted South China, turning the scrap into weapons of war.
(+5 FEAR groups)
Despite the occupation of vast tracts of homeland, ASEAN held elections in what areas it could, leading to President Adanan’s Pro-Asian Party to sweep all opposition. He was overwhelmingly reelected and his party seized a commanding majority in the Senate.
President Adanan gave new meaning to the idea of a home front as he spent the year vigorously touring the nation, whipping up patriotism, encouraging enlistment in the army, and encouraging the purchase of war bonds. Injured soldiers returned from combat to be set up on their own speaking tours with similar agendas. Sale of war bonds caused the government’s finances to temporarily rebound, though the cash was quickly spent on weapons of war. Such support was not enough, for Adanan eventually abandoned the idea of an all-volunteer army and instituted conscription.
(+1 ASEAN ASP, +25 ASEAN conscript divisions)
President Adanan ordered factories across the country to be turned over to wartime production, creating fighters, bombers, and tanks. He found new sources of imported oil like Alaska and Mesopotamia to deal with the Eastern Coalition embargo, and he ordered Vladimir Putin put on trial in absentia. The assigned court declared FEAR’s leader worthy of death for his massacring of millions of Chinese and poisoning of major rivers.
(+5 ASEAN groups)
ASEAN’s seat of government was provisionally moved to Vientiane, a major city of the state of Laos that was near the center of the country.
ASEAN’s propaganda machine expanded to even greater heights. The nation’s Department of Information under Ling Doong reduced the amount of anti-FEAR propaganda on the web but compensated with internal billboards, radio broadcasts, and television ads that assured the people of ASEAN they would be slaughtered by a rampaging Putin if they didn’t support the war in every way they could.
In occupied parts of Indonesia, ASEAN’s propaganda machine scorned the missing Emperor who had sold his soul to Putin, threw dirt on the fact that he had ever lived in Perth and not Java, and derided the very idea of monarchies in favor of a democratic Pan-Asianism espoused by Adanan’s party. ASEAN soldiers on the island worked hard to distribute blankets and help reconstruct buildings damaged by the war. These tactics worked in one key way. Despite minor riots, the people of Java did not rise up and throw out their occupiers.
Under the direction of FEAR, the Emperor’s Indonesia attempted to institute conscription, but many simply escaped into the jungles to avoid dying in combat.
(+5 Indonesian conscript divisions)
Military Events
The Mexican International Liberation Front, which had burst onto the world stage with such spectacular bombings the year prior, seemed to dismantle most of its operations in early 2006. Deseret forces reoccupied Baja California as the roadblocks at the head of the peninsula disappeared, and the only sign the group was still alive came from a few minor explosions in Acapulco and Veracruz.
Venezuela began to take care in fortifying its border with Deseret.
Chavez concentrated Venezuela’s forces and opened a new front of World War III against the Lima Republic, attacking down into old Columbia and west from Amazonia into the Peruvian heart of the nation. Outclassed, outnumbered, and with a substantial number of troops tied up in the south against Argentina, the post-Incas were forced down past Ecuador. By the end of the year, their northern front was distressingly close to Lima itself, and half the country was conquered. The closest thing to a solace for DFI-NADTA was that casualties had been heavy on both sides.
(-1 Lima ASP, Lima approval decrease, -13 Lima divisions, -6 Lima groups, -6 Venezuelan divisions, -1 Venezuelan Instigators divisions, -5 Venezuelan groups)
While the Lima-Argentine and the Venezuelan-Brazilian fronts of 2006 were dominated by a complete lack of momentum on both sides, the Argentineans made up for the wide-ranging passivity by launching a spearhead attack against Brasilia itself, taking advantage of the chaos behind DFI-NADTA front lines that stemmed from the evacuation of Deseret Marines. The American soldiers that arrived in their stead came too late to prevent the Argentine breakthrough, and by the end of the year Brazil’s capital was lost and the nation was generally hamstrung. Venezuelan and Argentine forces had almost linked up in the center of the country, and even some areas of Brazil that remained unoccupied by the Eastern Coalition slipped into anarchy. The last major redoubt of regional DFI-NADTA resistance had become Rio de Janeiro.
(-1 Brazilian ASP, Brazilian approval decrease, -12 Brazilian divisions, -5 Brazilian groups, -4 American divisions, -4 Argentine divisions, -5 Argentine Cyborg divisions, -4 Argentine groups)
The nascent South African communist uprising seemed to patter out, perhaps suppressed by a firm police response from Cape Town.
South Africa had far more important military problems. An attempt to occupy the rest of Yorubaland was ground down by Moroccan forces. Spurred by the united Dar al-Islam promulgation of jihad, Muslims in occupied Nigeria and Kongo began to take to the streets in suicide bombings against South African barracks and collaborators. Finally, troops from Sudan and the Islamic Courts Union swarmed into the two occupied states from the inland, overwhelming the South African troops with numbers and airpower. Fortunately for the South Africans, DFI-NADTA dominance on the Atlantic allowed for the evacuation of a good chunk of their defeated forces back to the homeland, but Moroccan, Sudanese, and Islamic Courts soldiers continued their offensive on dry earth. They pushed into Angola, threatening to destroy that land’s exile Nigerian state once and for all, which would rid Cape Town of its only regional ally.
(+1 Moroccan ASP, -1 Moroccan division, -1 Moroccan Marine division, -2 Moroccan groups, -3 Sudanese divisions, -2 Sudanese groups, -3 Islamic Courts divisions, -2 Islamic Courts groups, -6 South African divisions, -5 South African conscript divisions, -7 South African groups, Nigerian approval decrease, -1 Nigerian division)
A desert in Tunisia became the eye of a storm.
(See Spotlight)
(No casualties. Are you scared now?)
Utilizing the DFI-NADTA control of the Atlantic Ocean, Quebec landed soldiers around Morocco’s capital of New Rabat, easily brushing aside half completed coastal defenses and the first waves of Islamic fanatics that rose to greet them. By the end of the year, Quebec was in firm control of the area around old Senegal, though the nation’s forces seemed unable to advance further into hostile terrain without further reinforcements. Still, Emperor Mohammad VI had fled his palace for the safety of Moroccan heartland in North Africa, doing a considerable amount of damage to the administrative integrity of Morocco’s war machine.
(-2 Quebecois Warfighter divisions, -1 Moroccan ASP, +10 Moroccan conscript divisions, -7 Moroccan conscript divisions)
The war in Iberia took a bizarre twist. As hundreds of thousands of reinforcements from Quebec, Britain, and Alaska poured in to help their beleaguered ally, DFI-NADTA forces came to outnumber France both on the ground and in the air. Iberian conscription increased this divide even further. Meanwhile, Morocco troops left the peninsula in mass to deal with events back on their home continent, and those that remained were only interested in digging fortifications and generally defending against the secretive and growing Iberian Resistance in the occupied territories. The truth of the matter was, the pendulum had swung in DFI-NADTA’s favor in the region. A few head on battles might have driven the forces of the Eastern Coalition out of the country entirely. Unfortunately, traumatized Iberian military planners couldn’t shake the idea that their nation was on the brink, and thus the first few months of 2006 were characterized by inconclusive skirmishes and French artillery bombardments, which served to devastate large portions of the countryside. Iberian air bases were targeted by French bombers and heavily damaged, injuring the efficiency of the DFI-NADTA air command so heavily that the less numerous French planes remained mostly in control of the skies. Yet the good times were not to last for Paris. Finally, the Iberians and their overseas allies pulled together and attacked along the Pyrenees, aiming to cut off the French occupation zones from Paris. Casualties were horrendous, the French and their rocketry putting up a massive resistance, but in the end the Iberians drove straight to Barcelona in triumph. Unfortunately, this failed to do anything decisive. The Western Mediterranean was one of the few waters where Eastern Coalition forces could roam freely, and the French troops around Valencia continued to be well provisioned.
(+10 Iberian conscript divisions, -5 Iberian divisions, -4 Iberian conscript divisions, -5 Iberian groups, -4 British divisions, -2 British groups, -3 Quebecois divisions, -1 Quebecois Warfighters division, -1 Quebecois group, -4 Alaskan divisions, -1 Alaskan group, -5 French divisions, -11 French Genome Soldiers divisions, -6 French groups)
The Battle of the Atlantic continued to rage despite clear DFI-NADTA dominance. It seemed the Empire of Morocco was in denial, attempting early in the year to launch a naval assault across the coast of then-occupied Kongo despite the overwhelming preponderance of well equipped democratic fleets. The Moroccans and their allies were smashed on sea yet again, and in the aftermath the British occupied Cape Verde. Only France came up with a meaningful counter to the DFI-NADTA maritime supremacy, laying layer upon layer of mines and false mines against their western coast in preparation for an invasion that never came.
(-4 Moroccan Marines divisions, -12 Moroccan squadrons, -4 Sudanese squadrons, -5 Islamic Courts squadrons, -2 South African squadrons, -3 British squadrons, -2 Quebecois squadrons)
World War III in Central Europe both contracted and expanded. The Scandinavians and the People’s Republic of Europe had reached an impasse, with both sides doing little but flying the occasional air raid on each other’s territory. However, the leaders of Poland started sending material aid to the nations of DFI-NADTA and opened up a new land front by ordering their forces across the PRE border and into Germany. This time, the people at customs were no match for Poland’s entire armed forces, and the leaders of the PRE were thrown into panic because of the sheer number of soldiers heading straight for Berlin. The Polish forces might not have been as well equipped as their counterparts in the PRE, but Poland’s army and air force were each roughly two-thirds the size of their PRE opposite numbers, and far more concentrated. While the Polish fleet’s efforts at belligerency against PRE ports were quickly rebuffed, the Poles succeeded in reaching the outskirts of Berlin before being thrown back with heavy casualties by an organized communist response. Still, even by the end of the year the People’s Republic of Europe was unable to evict the Polish military from communist soil. The army of Poland had dug in due east of the German regions and enjoyed the passive support of the many PRE Poles who lived in the area.
(-1 PRE ASP, -7 PRE divisions, -5 PRE squadrons, -6 PRE groups, -14 Polish divisions, -6 Polish squadrons, -8 Polish groups)
The farce in Poland’s westward invasion came when the armies of the Igetis poured north from the Constantinople Federation, seizing Warsaw and almost the entire country, which had been left undefended but for a number of militarized policemen. The sheer speed of the takeover allowed the nation to be officially annexed within the year. Cronus Xanthou renamed his expanded dominions the Hellenic Imperium, and it seemed that a new world power had been born overnight. Still, a Poland-in-exile lived on in the lands occupied by the conquering Polish army, so the game was not quite done.
(-2 Polish ASP, Polish approval decrease, +1 Hellenic ASP, -1 Hellenic division)
Pakistan began 2006 with a host of internal problems. Within a couple months, the province of Persia was up in arms and a substantial portion of the Pakistani army had defected to the would-be nation. As the Karachi regime tried to crush the rebels, the Indian Republic took advantage of the opportunity to carry out a long awaited revenge. Smashing Pakistani garrisons in Kashmir, a vast Indian army headed up the Amu Darya towards the Central Asian Republic, which some confused politician had apparently decided would make an admirable objective. Thus was Pakistani heartland spared a full assault, but the errant Indian army did manage to cut Pakistan in two and begin to engage Central Asian soldiers. Meanwhile, rebel Persia fended off a few Pakistani counter attacks and set up a provisional government, though fear of the Arabian Umma kept the rebels from trying to reunify their divided homeland.
(+Persia, -1 Pakistani ASP, -9 Pakistani divisions, -3 Pakistani groups, -1 Central Asian division, -5 Indian divisions, -1 Indian Corkscrew Tank division)
Alaska and Deseret launched a major attack at FEAR’s capital region. At every step of the way Putin’s defenses inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders. The FEAR and Japanese navies, largely composed of submarines, harassed the grand NADTA armada as it approached. Vast FEAR minefields slowly ate away at the fleet. In the skies, near equal numbers of Eastern Coalition and DFI-NADTA planes combated each other, with FEAR’s pilots slowly gaining the upper hand. It seemed to many soldiers of Alaska’s Operation Amur Falcon that they were entering the mouth of a beast that would swallow them whole. Democratic troops perhaps never would have landed on Asian soil if it had not been for Deseret’s mighty Supercarrier squadron and the inventive tactics of various Deseret admirals, who proved the brilliance typical to Salt Lake’s officer corps by strictly delegating strict duties to various ships and insuring the maintenance of formation all the way to the coast. After a feint at Vladivostok, Alaskan and Deseret soldiers landed at the mouth of the Amur and massacred legions of FEAR conscripts at the costal defenses who seemed unwilling to surrender or retreat, and then slowly made their way up the river, reaching Khabarovsk, whereupon they engaged in brutal house to house combat with the weak but ferocious defenders. Even as it seemed the democrats were about to seize their objective, FEAR’s legendary 3rd Shock Army stormed up from the south and gave battle to NADTA in earnest. By the end of the year, NADTA and FEAR were still locked in the Battle of Khabarovsk. Massive casualties were counted on both sides, but the good news for the democrats was that their navies had blazed a clear shipping lane around Sakhalin. The heroes fighting for freedom in Khabarovsk had all the supplies they needed and were in no danger of starving. The methodical and strategic Alaskans meshed well with the tactically brilliant Deseret commanders, and the troops of the two nations fighting side by side went a long way towards removing lingering hostility from the brief Alaskan occupation of northern Deseret. While Alaskan soldiers took the lead on the ground, Deseret had come up with a counter to FEAR’s edge in the sky in the form of massive long-range missile barrages from its surface fleet. Still, the fact that such powerful allies had made such little headway into FEAR was distressing.
(-12 FEAR conscript divisions, -5 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR clone trooper divisions, -3 FEAR squadrons, -6 FEAR groups, -2 Japanese squadrons, -1 Japanese group, -4 Deseret Warfighters divisions, -5 Deseret groups, -5 Alaskan divisions, -2 Alaskan squadrons, -3 Alaskan groups)
Someone apparently thought it would be a good idea to lead a Chinese rebellion behind FEAR’s front lines. That same someone and his followers were massacred, but they took some enemies with them on their way out.
(-1 FEAR division)
FEAR opened up the year’s China hostilities by crushing the various small pockets of resistance in South China that had eluded them in the initial invasion. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Liberation Army did its very best to continue to offensive deep into ASEAN heartland. FEAR’s first target was the unbowed Chinese city of Kunming, which was bombed and occupied, and then FEAR commanders swung towards Hanoi. Various ASEAN maneuverings to gain advantage in the region were defeated by FEAR training and ferocity. Conscripts could simply not stand up against warriors like Clone Troopers. Agent Orange was added to the list of FEAR’s weapons, and warheads containing chemicals like VX and chlorine were launched against major ASEAN population concentrations. FEAR operatives did their very best to poison the Mekong River even further, and the millions who didn’t have a choice but to test their luck with the water grew frail and sickly. Of course, all this further ironed the ASEAN fighting spirit, and while Hanoi fell, FEAR’s Revolutionary Army was finally held up in Vinh with a level of street to street fighting echoing Khabarovsk far to the north. Assassinations of FEAR commanders became a theme, and the massive assault seemed slacken as expeditionary Alaskans and other reinforcements got into position to stem the red tide. Hellfire Tanks were roundly defeated in battle for the first time. Finally, the game changed when ASEAN General Lim Singh’s army combined with Alaskan soldiers to pour north from Hainan Island and into the Pearl River Delta. FEAR quite simply had no more veteran troops to combat this new threat, and a timely ASEAN-induced Yangtze flooding make it hard to funnel even conscripts from the far north. In the first major reverse of the war, ASEAN quickly overran and recovered South China from Hong Kong to Shanghai, though FEAR exacted revenge by dealing horrible atrocities to the people of Nanking before evacuating. The Iron Curtain of the Yangtze, useful once again, prevented any rollback of FEAR beyond their prewar borders, but by the end of 2006 the position of Putin’s Revolutionary Army in Vietnam looked extremely perilous.
(-2 FEAR People’s Crusher divisions, -3 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR Hellfire Tank divisions, -6 FEAR Clone Troopers divisions, -4 FEAR groups, +5 ASEAN conscript divisions, -17 ASEAN conscript divisions, -6 ASEAN divisions, -3 ASEAN groups, -2 Alaskan divisions, -2 Alaskan groups)
Under direction from Vladivostok, the Arabians in Malaya did their best to destroy the Kra Canal before they ran out of supplies, but this last gasp of triumph ended in terror when ASEAN marines seized the remnants of the canal days later, cutting off a few Arabian divisions to the north and allowing them to be utterly destroyed by a much larger ASEAN army. President’s Adanan’s forces then engaged in a campaign of liberation straight south that was at first very bloody, as the jihadist Arabians refused to give up without exhausting every breakout attempt (all the way to Vietnam, mind you), and the ASEANs seemed to be gratuitously provoking them into confrontations. Eventually brilliance of the stratagem became clear as the Arabians ran out of bullets and surrendered before the fighting ever got to Kuala Lumpur, allowing the capital to be recovered with fairly little additional damage. The Arabians simply had not had the time to demolish the city as FEAR would have wanted.
(-9 Arabian divisions, -4 Arabian Clerical Fanatics divisions, -10 Arabian groups, -2 ASEAN Marines divisions, -6 ASEAN divisions, -3 ASEAN groups)
Sumatra was a different story. The Pakistanis, perhaps hardened because of the chaos going on back in their homeland, refused to surrender, and ASEAN didn’t have the forces to displace them. By the end of the year the Pakistani army was largely starving and thus disintegrating, and large parts of the island had slipped out of their control, but the occasional trans-Indian Ocean convoy from the Middle East was enough to keep them from running out of bullets and suffering the same fate as the Arabians. Still, the Pakistanis kept up the pressure on ASEAN by maintaining constant air raids over Singapore, even at the price of further dwindling their resources.
(-5 Pakistani divisions)
Since Pakistani and Arabian fleets never really showed up to try and rescue their beleaguered soldiers, the Indonesian and ASEAN fleets were left to engaged in a deadly dance. ASEAN had the advantage in sailor morale and ship modernity, but while the Indonesians navy was driven back, it alone among the flotillas of the Eastern Coalition was not entirely humbled. General Halim Adanan, youngest son of the ASEAN President, did his very best to lead the Tri-Nation Army of ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand to begin and island-hopping campaign, but Indonesian defenders had heavily entrenched everywhere, recalling memories of American difficulties against Japan in the last world war. Little progress was made at considerable human cost, and Indonesia retaliated by launching raids against the ports of Darwin, Guadalcanal, Bandar Seri Begawan, and the Southern Philippines, reducing ASEAN’s ability to organize effectively and stirring the strongly Islamic natives of that last location to riot in support of the anti-DFI-NADTA jihad. Near the end of the year, Indonesia launched a major new offensive aimed at recapturing Java, but Halim Adanan continued a family tradition by engaging in a fighting retreat against a sudden concentration of overwhelming Indonesian air supremacy, heavily damaging the remnants of the Indonesian navy that had concentrated in order to ferry the troops. Java was recaptured by the Indonesians at great cost, immediately blockaded by the ASEAN fleet, and as best reports could tell, a good segment of the population seemed in favor of the Pan-Asianist ideas that ASEAN marines had disseminated before they had evacuated, and the Indonesian Emperor was still hiding in New Guinea. Endowed with a decent air force and army, Indonesia’s faltering fleet was its Achilles’ heel that prevented its resurrection as a meaningful power, since ASEAN forces could strike any of the nation’s islands at will, even though they were theoretically on the defensive.
(-6 Indonesian divisions, -14 Indonesian squadrons, -4 Indonesian groups, -1 ASEAN Marines division, -7 ASEAN squadrons, -3 ASEAN groups, -2 Australian divisions, -1 Australian squadron, -1 New Zealander division, -1 New Zealander squadron, -3 New Zealander groups)
Peaceful Events
With NADTA at peace within the confines of North America, the massive free trade agreement the constituent countries had set up began to bring economic prosperity.
Trade between Cascadia and the Northern Collective picked up.
Partially spurred by the efficiency of the utility monopoly corporatists at Shin-Ra, Cascadia succeeded in major economic growth.
(+1 Cascadian ASP)
Riding a wave of patriotism, the Cascadian military junta agreed to democratic elections in 2007 and urged political parties to form and prepare.
The company known as Shin-Ra dredged up a new, enclosed, and private port somewhere in Cascadia north of Portland. As the year passed, Shin-Ra spread its economic influence across the continent, with marked trucks shipping materials as New York.
As part of the general wave of North American postwar economic improvements, the Theocratic Republic of Deseret continued to financially recover, though said progress was quickly stifled by government overspending.
(+1 Deseret ASP)
A run of assassinations occurred in the American Federation, making the people wonder about their government’s involvement in a new war.
(American approval decrease)
Confederate President Xavier Suarez created the Confederate Expense Bureau, which served to organize tax payments and generally make the government more efficient. The nation greatly recovered from the mishaps of the year prior.
(+2 Confederate ASP)
Some of the Tunisian economy disappeared due to overspending.
An assassin named Mr. Egorov shot and wounded Xavier Suarez while shouting “Long live Comrade Putin!” He was then killed by Suarez’s bodyguards.
Persistence paid off for Hugo Chavez in Cuba and the Caribbean as heavy Venezuelan investment forced the region into something approaching prosperity.
(+1 Venezuelan ASP)
The Earth Liberation Special Projects Group stabilized its income by offering services in data management and industry upgrades.
Poland reacted to the various events of World War III by declaring martial law and deciding to suspend elections until further notice. Before anyone could get angry at Warsaw, the government tried to redirect its people’s rage by declaring war on the People’s Republic of Europe.
(See Military Events)
A book called The Development of Races became widely promulgated in the Constantinople Federation. Within the text, races were divided into four categories. The exemplar of the first and highest category was of course the Greeks, though a door was theoretically left open for other worthy races to rise to the same level. The second category was mostly the domain of the Russians, who were considered important but not overly so, and the third category belonged to the Turks, who were deemed influential but “no good.” The fourth and lowest category was occupied by explicitly named groups like the Albanians, Bulgarians, and Croats, which were the most downtrodden of the races under Cronus Xanthou’s Dark Eagle Party regime. Interestingly, the semi-official text said very little about Islam, perhaps opening the door for the exiled religion to eventually return to the lands of the DEP.
A bullet fired from the gun of a Hellenic socialist and meant for Cronus Xanthou was intercepted by a Ukrainian who made the ultimate sacrifice for his Igetis. Though the identity of the fallen hero from the north remained unclear throughout the year, Xanthou seemed to be deeply affected by the patriotism of a non-Greek. As a burial took place for the honorary Hellene, Xanthou declared the liberation of the Northern cultures. Henceforth, most citizens north of the Danube were accorded almost all of the privileges of the Greeks. Unfettered and desirous of prestige within the regime, many Ukrainians wholeheartedly took Greek names and adopted some Hellene customs, ironically creating the beginnings of a fusion culture north of the Black Sea.
(Constantinople approval increase)
By some diplomatic oddity, the militant Constantinople Federation was adopted into the DFI-NADTA Technology Fund. After all the democrats’ advances had been integrated into the CF’s huge army, the Igetis decided to test his soldiers’ mettle.
(See Military Events)
The Constantinople Federation completed construction of a wall along the nation’s border with the People’s Republic of Europe.
Vast portions of the Arabian Umma’s economic potential disappeared into an unknown project, much to the dismay of the quizzical populace.
(Arabian approval decrease)
ASEAN directed some propaganda against the Arabian Umma’s system of governance, but the most impressive of its international efforts came in Pakistan, where a radio blitz encouraged the people to rise up and overthrow a Karachi government that had acted like a mindless pawn in world affairs while ignoring the people at home. Various events spurred counteractive patriotism in areas like the Punjab, but further afield in old Iran, the Persians decided that ASEAN was a powerful international force that would help them win their struggle. They rose in an organized liberal revolt.
(See Military Events)
FEAR instituted conscription, legalized religion to help control the masses, and attempted to amp up industrial production. The Virgin Lands Program continued.
(FEAR approval increase, +20 FEAR conscript divisions)
It seemed as if one assassin or another tried to kill Vladimir Putin each month, and several times news got out that the First-Citizen was severely injured, but he always reappeared in the best of health, ready to continue serving as a frightening tale for disobedient children.
As events in Indonesia caused the remnants of the Imperial government to become increasingly dependent on FEAR, Putin strong-armed the Emperor into allowing Japan independence as a socialist satellite state under Vladivostok. The Japanese themselves took up their new internal autonomy without much fuss.
(+Japan)
FEAR heavily looted South China, turning the scrap into weapons of war.
(+5 FEAR groups)
Despite the occupation of vast tracts of homeland, ASEAN held elections in what areas it could, leading to President Adanan’s Pro-Asian Party to sweep all opposition. He was overwhelmingly reelected and his party seized a commanding majority in the Senate.
President Adanan gave new meaning to the idea of a home front as he spent the year vigorously touring the nation, whipping up patriotism, encouraging enlistment in the army, and encouraging the purchase of war bonds. Injured soldiers returned from combat to be set up on their own speaking tours with similar agendas. Sale of war bonds caused the government’s finances to temporarily rebound, though the cash was quickly spent on weapons of war. Such support was not enough, for Adanan eventually abandoned the idea of an all-volunteer army and instituted conscription.
(+1 ASEAN ASP, +25 ASEAN conscript divisions)
President Adanan ordered factories across the country to be turned over to wartime production, creating fighters, bombers, and tanks. He found new sources of imported oil like Alaska and Mesopotamia to deal with the Eastern Coalition embargo, and he ordered Vladimir Putin put on trial in absentia. The assigned court declared FEAR’s leader worthy of death for his massacring of millions of Chinese and poisoning of major rivers.
(+5 ASEAN groups)
ASEAN’s seat of government was provisionally moved to Vientiane, a major city of the state of Laos that was near the center of the country.
ASEAN’s propaganda machine expanded to even greater heights. The nation’s Department of Information under Ling Doong reduced the amount of anti-FEAR propaganda on the web but compensated with internal billboards, radio broadcasts, and television ads that assured the people of ASEAN they would be slaughtered by a rampaging Putin if they didn’t support the war in every way they could.
In occupied parts of Indonesia, ASEAN’s propaganda machine scorned the missing Emperor who had sold his soul to Putin, threw dirt on the fact that he had ever lived in Perth and not Java, and derided the very idea of monarchies in favor of a democratic Pan-Asianism espoused by Adanan’s party. ASEAN soldiers on the island worked hard to distribute blankets and help reconstruct buildings damaged by the war. These tactics worked in one key way. Despite minor riots, the people of Java did not rise up and throw out their occupiers.
Under the direction of FEAR, the Emperor’s Indonesia attempted to institute conscription, but many simply escaped into the jungles to avoid dying in combat.
(+5 Indonesian conscript divisions)
Military Events
The Mexican International Liberation Front, which had burst onto the world stage with such spectacular bombings the year prior, seemed to dismantle most of its operations in early 2006. Deseret forces reoccupied Baja California as the roadblocks at the head of the peninsula disappeared, and the only sign the group was still alive came from a few minor explosions in Acapulco and Veracruz.
Venezuela began to take care in fortifying its border with Deseret.
Chavez concentrated Venezuela’s forces and opened a new front of World War III against the Lima Republic, attacking down into old Columbia and west from Amazonia into the Peruvian heart of the nation. Outclassed, outnumbered, and with a substantial number of troops tied up in the south against Argentina, the post-Incas were forced down past Ecuador. By the end of the year, their northern front was distressingly close to Lima itself, and half the country was conquered. The closest thing to a solace for DFI-NADTA was that casualties had been heavy on both sides.
(-1 Lima ASP, Lima approval decrease, -13 Lima divisions, -6 Lima groups, -6 Venezuelan divisions, -1 Venezuelan Instigators divisions, -5 Venezuelan groups)
While the Lima-Argentine and the Venezuelan-Brazilian fronts of 2006 were dominated by a complete lack of momentum on both sides, the Argentineans made up for the wide-ranging passivity by launching a spearhead attack against Brasilia itself, taking advantage of the chaos behind DFI-NADTA front lines that stemmed from the evacuation of Deseret Marines. The American soldiers that arrived in their stead came too late to prevent the Argentine breakthrough, and by the end of the year Brazil’s capital was lost and the nation was generally hamstrung. Venezuelan and Argentine forces had almost linked up in the center of the country, and even some areas of Brazil that remained unoccupied by the Eastern Coalition slipped into anarchy. The last major redoubt of regional DFI-NADTA resistance had become Rio de Janeiro.
(-1 Brazilian ASP, Brazilian approval decrease, -12 Brazilian divisions, -5 Brazilian groups, -4 American divisions, -4 Argentine divisions, -5 Argentine Cyborg divisions, -4 Argentine groups)
The nascent South African communist uprising seemed to patter out, perhaps suppressed by a firm police response from Cape Town.
South Africa had far more important military problems. An attempt to occupy the rest of Yorubaland was ground down by Moroccan forces. Spurred by the united Dar al-Islam promulgation of jihad, Muslims in occupied Nigeria and Kongo began to take to the streets in suicide bombings against South African barracks and collaborators. Finally, troops from Sudan and the Islamic Courts Union swarmed into the two occupied states from the inland, overwhelming the South African troops with numbers and airpower. Fortunately for the South Africans, DFI-NADTA dominance on the Atlantic allowed for the evacuation of a good chunk of their defeated forces back to the homeland, but Moroccan, Sudanese, and Islamic Courts soldiers continued their offensive on dry earth. They pushed into Angola, threatening to destroy that land’s exile Nigerian state once and for all, which would rid Cape Town of its only regional ally.
(+1 Moroccan ASP, -1 Moroccan division, -1 Moroccan Marine division, -2 Moroccan groups, -3 Sudanese divisions, -2 Sudanese groups, -3 Islamic Courts divisions, -2 Islamic Courts groups, -6 South African divisions, -5 South African conscript divisions, -7 South African groups, Nigerian approval decrease, -1 Nigerian division)
A desert in Tunisia became the eye of a storm.
(See Spotlight)
(No casualties. Are you scared now?)
Utilizing the DFI-NADTA control of the Atlantic Ocean, Quebec landed soldiers around Morocco’s capital of New Rabat, easily brushing aside half completed coastal defenses and the first waves of Islamic fanatics that rose to greet them. By the end of the year, Quebec was in firm control of the area around old Senegal, though the nation’s forces seemed unable to advance further into hostile terrain without further reinforcements. Still, Emperor Mohammad VI had fled his palace for the safety of Moroccan heartland in North Africa, doing a considerable amount of damage to the administrative integrity of Morocco’s war machine.
(-2 Quebecois Warfighter divisions, -1 Moroccan ASP, +10 Moroccan conscript divisions, -7 Moroccan conscript divisions)
The war in Iberia took a bizarre twist. As hundreds of thousands of reinforcements from Quebec, Britain, and Alaska poured in to help their beleaguered ally, DFI-NADTA forces came to outnumber France both on the ground and in the air. Iberian conscription increased this divide even further. Meanwhile, Morocco troops left the peninsula in mass to deal with events back on their home continent, and those that remained were only interested in digging fortifications and generally defending against the secretive and growing Iberian Resistance in the occupied territories. The truth of the matter was, the pendulum had swung in DFI-NADTA’s favor in the region. A few head on battles might have driven the forces of the Eastern Coalition out of the country entirely. Unfortunately, traumatized Iberian military planners couldn’t shake the idea that their nation was on the brink, and thus the first few months of 2006 were characterized by inconclusive skirmishes and French artillery bombardments, which served to devastate large portions of the countryside. Iberian air bases were targeted by French bombers and heavily damaged, injuring the efficiency of the DFI-NADTA air command so heavily that the less numerous French planes remained mostly in control of the skies. Yet the good times were not to last for Paris. Finally, the Iberians and their overseas allies pulled together and attacked along the Pyrenees, aiming to cut off the French occupation zones from Paris. Casualties were horrendous, the French and their rocketry putting up a massive resistance, but in the end the Iberians drove straight to Barcelona in triumph. Unfortunately, this failed to do anything decisive. The Western Mediterranean was one of the few waters where Eastern Coalition forces could roam freely, and the French troops around Valencia continued to be well provisioned.
(+10 Iberian conscript divisions, -5 Iberian divisions, -4 Iberian conscript divisions, -5 Iberian groups, -4 British divisions, -2 British groups, -3 Quebecois divisions, -1 Quebecois Warfighters division, -1 Quebecois group, -4 Alaskan divisions, -1 Alaskan group, -5 French divisions, -11 French Genome Soldiers divisions, -6 French groups)
The Battle of the Atlantic continued to rage despite clear DFI-NADTA dominance. It seemed the Empire of Morocco was in denial, attempting early in the year to launch a naval assault across the coast of then-occupied Kongo despite the overwhelming preponderance of well equipped democratic fleets. The Moroccans and their allies were smashed on sea yet again, and in the aftermath the British occupied Cape Verde. Only France came up with a meaningful counter to the DFI-NADTA maritime supremacy, laying layer upon layer of mines and false mines against their western coast in preparation for an invasion that never came.
(-4 Moroccan Marines divisions, -12 Moroccan squadrons, -4 Sudanese squadrons, -5 Islamic Courts squadrons, -2 South African squadrons, -3 British squadrons, -2 Quebecois squadrons)
World War III in Central Europe both contracted and expanded. The Scandinavians and the People’s Republic of Europe had reached an impasse, with both sides doing little but flying the occasional air raid on each other’s territory. However, the leaders of Poland started sending material aid to the nations of DFI-NADTA and opened up a new land front by ordering their forces across the PRE border and into Germany. This time, the people at customs were no match for Poland’s entire armed forces, and the leaders of the PRE were thrown into panic because of the sheer number of soldiers heading straight for Berlin. The Polish forces might not have been as well equipped as their counterparts in the PRE, but Poland’s army and air force were each roughly two-thirds the size of their PRE opposite numbers, and far more concentrated. While the Polish fleet’s efforts at belligerency against PRE ports were quickly rebuffed, the Poles succeeded in reaching the outskirts of Berlin before being thrown back with heavy casualties by an organized communist response. Still, even by the end of the year the People’s Republic of Europe was unable to evict the Polish military from communist soil. The army of Poland had dug in due east of the German regions and enjoyed the passive support of the many PRE Poles who lived in the area.
(-1 PRE ASP, -7 PRE divisions, -5 PRE squadrons, -6 PRE groups, -14 Polish divisions, -6 Polish squadrons, -8 Polish groups)
The farce in Poland’s westward invasion came when the armies of the Igetis poured north from the Constantinople Federation, seizing Warsaw and almost the entire country, which had been left undefended but for a number of militarized policemen. The sheer speed of the takeover allowed the nation to be officially annexed within the year. Cronus Xanthou renamed his expanded dominions the Hellenic Imperium, and it seemed that a new world power had been born overnight. Still, a Poland-in-exile lived on in the lands occupied by the conquering Polish army, so the game was not quite done.
(-2 Polish ASP, Polish approval decrease, +1 Hellenic ASP, -1 Hellenic division)
Pakistan began 2006 with a host of internal problems. Within a couple months, the province of Persia was up in arms and a substantial portion of the Pakistani army had defected to the would-be nation. As the Karachi regime tried to crush the rebels, the Indian Republic took advantage of the opportunity to carry out a long awaited revenge. Smashing Pakistani garrisons in Kashmir, a vast Indian army headed up the Amu Darya towards the Central Asian Republic, which some confused politician had apparently decided would make an admirable objective. Thus was Pakistani heartland spared a full assault, but the errant Indian army did manage to cut Pakistan in two and begin to engage Central Asian soldiers. Meanwhile, rebel Persia fended off a few Pakistani counter attacks and set up a provisional government, though fear of the Arabian Umma kept the rebels from trying to reunify their divided homeland.
(+Persia, -1 Pakistani ASP, -9 Pakistani divisions, -3 Pakistani groups, -1 Central Asian division, -5 Indian divisions, -1 Indian Corkscrew Tank division)
Alaska and Deseret launched a major attack at FEAR’s capital region. At every step of the way Putin’s defenses inflicted heavy casualties on the invaders. The FEAR and Japanese navies, largely composed of submarines, harassed the grand NADTA armada as it approached. Vast FEAR minefields slowly ate away at the fleet. In the skies, near equal numbers of Eastern Coalition and DFI-NADTA planes combated each other, with FEAR’s pilots slowly gaining the upper hand. It seemed to many soldiers of Alaska’s Operation Amur Falcon that they were entering the mouth of a beast that would swallow them whole. Democratic troops perhaps never would have landed on Asian soil if it had not been for Deseret’s mighty Supercarrier squadron and the inventive tactics of various Deseret admirals, who proved the brilliance typical to Salt Lake’s officer corps by strictly delegating strict duties to various ships and insuring the maintenance of formation all the way to the coast. After a feint at Vladivostok, Alaskan and Deseret soldiers landed at the mouth of the Amur and massacred legions of FEAR conscripts at the costal defenses who seemed unwilling to surrender or retreat, and then slowly made their way up the river, reaching Khabarovsk, whereupon they engaged in brutal house to house combat with the weak but ferocious defenders. Even as it seemed the democrats were about to seize their objective, FEAR’s legendary 3rd Shock Army stormed up from the south and gave battle to NADTA in earnest. By the end of the year, NADTA and FEAR were still locked in the Battle of Khabarovsk. Massive casualties were counted on both sides, but the good news for the democrats was that their navies had blazed a clear shipping lane around Sakhalin. The heroes fighting for freedom in Khabarovsk had all the supplies they needed and were in no danger of starving. The methodical and strategic Alaskans meshed well with the tactically brilliant Deseret commanders, and the troops of the two nations fighting side by side went a long way towards removing lingering hostility from the brief Alaskan occupation of northern Deseret. While Alaskan soldiers took the lead on the ground, Deseret had come up with a counter to FEAR’s edge in the sky in the form of massive long-range missile barrages from its surface fleet. Still, the fact that such powerful allies had made such little headway into FEAR was distressing.
(-12 FEAR conscript divisions, -5 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR clone trooper divisions, -3 FEAR squadrons, -6 FEAR groups, -2 Japanese squadrons, -1 Japanese group, -4 Deseret Warfighters divisions, -5 Deseret groups, -5 Alaskan divisions, -2 Alaskan squadrons, -3 Alaskan groups)
Someone apparently thought it would be a good idea to lead a Chinese rebellion behind FEAR’s front lines. That same someone and his followers were massacred, but they took some enemies with them on their way out.
(-1 FEAR division)
FEAR opened up the year’s China hostilities by crushing the various small pockets of resistance in South China that had eluded them in the initial invasion. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary Liberation Army did its very best to continue to offensive deep into ASEAN heartland. FEAR’s first target was the unbowed Chinese city of Kunming, which was bombed and occupied, and then FEAR commanders swung towards Hanoi. Various ASEAN maneuverings to gain advantage in the region were defeated by FEAR training and ferocity. Conscripts could simply not stand up against warriors like Clone Troopers. Agent Orange was added to the list of FEAR’s weapons, and warheads containing chemicals like VX and chlorine were launched against major ASEAN population concentrations. FEAR operatives did their very best to poison the Mekong River even further, and the millions who didn’t have a choice but to test their luck with the water grew frail and sickly. Of course, all this further ironed the ASEAN fighting spirit, and while Hanoi fell, FEAR’s Revolutionary Army was finally held up in Vinh with a level of street to street fighting echoing Khabarovsk far to the north. Assassinations of FEAR commanders became a theme, and the massive assault seemed slacken as expeditionary Alaskans and other reinforcements got into position to stem the red tide. Hellfire Tanks were roundly defeated in battle for the first time. Finally, the game changed when ASEAN General Lim Singh’s army combined with Alaskan soldiers to pour north from Hainan Island and into the Pearl River Delta. FEAR quite simply had no more veteran troops to combat this new threat, and a timely ASEAN-induced Yangtze flooding make it hard to funnel even conscripts from the far north. In the first major reverse of the war, ASEAN quickly overran and recovered South China from Hong Kong to Shanghai, though FEAR exacted revenge by dealing horrible atrocities to the people of Nanking before evacuating. The Iron Curtain of the Yangtze, useful once again, prevented any rollback of FEAR beyond their prewar borders, but by the end of 2006 the position of Putin’s Revolutionary Army in Vietnam looked extremely perilous.
(-2 FEAR People’s Crusher divisions, -3 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR Hellfire Tank divisions, -6 FEAR Clone Troopers divisions, -4 FEAR groups, +5 ASEAN conscript divisions, -17 ASEAN conscript divisions, -6 ASEAN divisions, -3 ASEAN groups, -2 Alaskan divisions, -2 Alaskan groups)
Under direction from Vladivostok, the Arabians in Malaya did their best to destroy the Kra Canal before they ran out of supplies, but this last gasp of triumph ended in terror when ASEAN marines seized the remnants of the canal days later, cutting off a few Arabian divisions to the north and allowing them to be utterly destroyed by a much larger ASEAN army. President’s Adanan’s forces then engaged in a campaign of liberation straight south that was at first very bloody, as the jihadist Arabians refused to give up without exhausting every breakout attempt (all the way to Vietnam, mind you), and the ASEANs seemed to be gratuitously provoking them into confrontations. Eventually brilliance of the stratagem became clear as the Arabians ran out of bullets and surrendered before the fighting ever got to Kuala Lumpur, allowing the capital to be recovered with fairly little additional damage. The Arabians simply had not had the time to demolish the city as FEAR would have wanted.
(-9 Arabian divisions, -4 Arabian Clerical Fanatics divisions, -10 Arabian groups, -2 ASEAN Marines divisions, -6 ASEAN divisions, -3 ASEAN groups)
Sumatra was a different story. The Pakistanis, perhaps hardened because of the chaos going on back in their homeland, refused to surrender, and ASEAN didn’t have the forces to displace them. By the end of the year the Pakistani army was largely starving and thus disintegrating, and large parts of the island had slipped out of their control, but the occasional trans-Indian Ocean convoy from the Middle East was enough to keep them from running out of bullets and suffering the same fate as the Arabians. Still, the Pakistanis kept up the pressure on ASEAN by maintaining constant air raids over Singapore, even at the price of further dwindling their resources.
(-5 Pakistani divisions)
Since Pakistani and Arabian fleets never really showed up to try and rescue their beleaguered soldiers, the Indonesian and ASEAN fleets were left to engaged in a deadly dance. ASEAN had the advantage in sailor morale and ship modernity, but while the Indonesians navy was driven back, it alone among the flotillas of the Eastern Coalition was not entirely humbled. General Halim Adanan, youngest son of the ASEAN President, did his very best to lead the Tri-Nation Army of ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand to begin and island-hopping campaign, but Indonesian defenders had heavily entrenched everywhere, recalling memories of American difficulties against Japan in the last world war. Little progress was made at considerable human cost, and Indonesia retaliated by launching raids against the ports of Darwin, Guadalcanal, Bandar Seri Begawan, and the Southern Philippines, reducing ASEAN’s ability to organize effectively and stirring the strongly Islamic natives of that last location to riot in support of the anti-DFI-NADTA jihad. Near the end of the year, Indonesia launched a major new offensive aimed at recapturing Java, but Halim Adanan continued a family tradition by engaging in a fighting retreat against a sudden concentration of overwhelming Indonesian air supremacy, heavily damaging the remnants of the Indonesian navy that had concentrated in order to ferry the troops. Java was recaptured by the Indonesians at great cost, immediately blockaded by the ASEAN fleet, and as best reports could tell, a good segment of the population seemed in favor of the Pan-Asianist ideas that ASEAN marines had disseminated before they had evacuated, and the Indonesian Emperor was still hiding in New Guinea. Endowed with a decent air force and army, Indonesia’s faltering fleet was its Achilles’ heel that prevented its resurrection as a meaningful power, since ASEAN forces could strike any of the nation’s islands at will, even though they were theoretically on the defensive.
(-6 Indonesian divisions, -14 Indonesian squadrons, -4 Indonesian groups, -1 ASEAN Marines division, -7 ASEAN squadrons, -3 ASEAN groups, -2 Australian divisions, -1 Australian squadron, -1 New Zealander division, -1 New Zealander squadron, -3 New Zealander groups)
Story Events
More and more multiethnic citizens join the army to persecute and destroy all enemies of President Cronus Xanthou.
(+1 Constantinople Talon Guard division)
South Africa pulled somewhat together.
(South African approval increase)
FEAR laughs at puny rebel groups.
(+5 FEAR divisions)
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya prepares itself well.
(Tunisian approval increase)
Iberia refuses to be one more speed bump on the path to Eastern Coalition world domination.
(+5 Iberian divisions)
Deseret has an advanced and strong fleet.
(+5 Deseret squadrons)
ASEAN is in dire straits, but President Adanan’s will is iron.
(+5 ASEAN Marines divisions)
Alaska inherited the best army in the world.
(+5 Alaskan divisions)
Spotlight
“The world’s gonna end sometime. Not today.”
-Unknown Deseret Angel of Death
As the world found out in a speech by Deseret’s President Gordon B. Hinckley, various leaders of the Eastern Coalition had spent much of early 2006 plotting to destroy the word. Mormon press briefings later included strange terms like ‘nuclear weapons’ and familiar ones like Yellowstone, but the free media inevitably fixated less on the scientific details and more on the incredible operation that took place in the Tunisian Sahara.
As it turned out, a facility deep in the desert was the primary R&D site for the Eastern Coalition’s nuclear warheads, and this very site was terribly guarded. The various leaders of the Eastern Coalition states had depended on the compound’s extreme isolation to protect it from danger. Perhaps if Putin had stayed interested in the project to the end, it would have had better protection, but Moroccan scientists and administrators had taken over most of the supposed ‘ICBM development,’ and Emperor Mohammad VI spent the year more interested in running for his life from Quebecois landings than troubleshooting the security program for his ultimate weapon.
In any case, near the end of the year the extremely capable Deseret Western Intelligence Agency had solved the logistics problem and landed a batch of the newly minted special forces, the Angels of Death, at the project site. They quickly seized control of everything. It was at this point that Tunisia’s leader Muammar Gaddafi, who might not have been entirely pre-informed that such an important facility was in the south of his country, realized that the project he had been tangentially involved in had been horribly compromised and sent armored columns down the Sahara, spearheaded by two divisions of his elite Bahiyya Aamina female guards. He was very aware the situation had to be controlled.
Meanwhile, strange events were unfolding at the R&D site. Hundreds of thousands of Deseret’s marines had made the semi-airlifted trek across half of Africa to support the Angels of Death, and as they were joined by an even greater number of Confederate soldiers, Gaddafi came to realize that there were more DFI-NADTA troops surrounding the R&D site than he had in his own army. His officers assessed the situation and realized they had a chance. While the Deseret-Confederate forces were supported by bribed natives and cargo planes and helicopters making round the clock flights to and from South Africa, they had very little conventional air support. One Tunisian official concluded that an army of almost half a million troops sitting in the middle of the desert was a massive sitting duck.
Unfortunately, the plan to bomb the soldiers into the next life was thrown into chaos when a Hellene Imperium invasion force of a hundred thousand took coastal Cyrenaica by storm before beginning a forced march to join the Deserets and the Confederates at the R&D site. Since the location was known to be of vital importance, but no one in the Tunisian high command had a clear picture of why the base would require so many forces, all plans at an air strike were temporarily put on hold until ground infiltration teams could sort out what was going on. One of Gaddafi’s ideas was that all the Hellenes, Deserets, and Confederates, now numbering roughly 530,000, would be beamed up by an alien spaceship, and that would be that. He ordered a call be put in to the military city that was slowly being built on top of the R&D site, and warned that his forces could quickly retake Cyrenaica and cut off a major supply line.
Meanwhile, the various Allied soldiers and special forces (The Hellene Imperium’s new and elite Talon Guard had showed up too) had been fanning out from the R&D site and generally seizing large portions of Central Africa in an attempt to feed themselves and improve logistics chains. Since they were in no immediate danger of being overrun, (which somehow was a rampant fear despite their overwhelming numerical superiority) the Allied forces contacted their various commands for further instructions, but their response was inconclusive. No one in any capital ordered a withdrawal. A few hackers in the military city cracked the codes for the twenty prototype ICBM nuclear weapons at the R&D site, and then went forth and told their commanders that if the simulations were correct, they now could destroy any number of Eastern Coalition cities quite easily. Some haughty soul informed Gaddafi that nuclear fire might be the result of moving to recapture the Cyrenaica-R&D site supply corridor. While word spread among the Eastern Coalition leaders that the Allies had access to a trove of nuclear weapons, a variety of Moroccan scientists spread the news that the Sahara location had not been the only place where research was stored. After a flurry of knowledge exchanges, every nation in the Eastern Coalition had access to comprehensive information that they could use to easily start national atomic weapons programs (or, in the case of Morocco, go straight to building ICBMs at secondary facilities safely nestled within their own territory), but the fact remained that the only operable nuclear devices at the end of 2006 were in the hands of Deseret, the Confederacy, and the Hellene Imperium, none of which had the ability to copy the advanced technology that they had become the custodians of.
Flustered, Gaddafi started an impromptu worldwide ceasefire by delivering aid to the slowly starving soldiers at the R&D site, and in the very last days of December, the guns of World War III went silent all around the world as various nations realized that one false move might lead to some sort of Armageddon. Some seriously proposed that a worldwide effort be made to create some sort of satellite missile detection and destruction system that might render all ICBMs obsolete, which would then all allow everyone to go back to killing each other in the safety of a conventional format.
Others thought that the opportunity had arisen for a true peace. Somehow.
NPC Diplomacy
To: DFI-NADTA
From: Nigeria
Help us before we are overrun!
To: ASEAN
From: Certain Javan Notables
You gave us hope for a bright future. You better come back and liberate us!
More and more multiethnic citizens join the army to persecute and destroy all enemies of President Cronus Xanthou.
(+1 Constantinople Talon Guard division)
South Africa pulled somewhat together.
(South African approval increase)
FEAR laughs at puny rebel groups.
(+5 FEAR divisions)
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya prepares itself well.
(Tunisian approval increase)
Iberia refuses to be one more speed bump on the path to Eastern Coalition world domination.
(+5 Iberian divisions)
Deseret has an advanced and strong fleet.
(+5 Deseret squadrons)
ASEAN is in dire straits, but President Adanan’s will is iron.
(+5 ASEAN Marines divisions)
Alaska inherited the best army in the world.
(+5 Alaskan divisions)
Spotlight
“The world’s gonna end sometime. Not today.”
-Unknown Deseret Angel of Death
As the world found out in a speech by Deseret’s President Gordon B. Hinckley, various leaders of the Eastern Coalition had spent much of early 2006 plotting to destroy the word. Mormon press briefings later included strange terms like ‘nuclear weapons’ and familiar ones like Yellowstone, but the free media inevitably fixated less on the scientific details and more on the incredible operation that took place in the Tunisian Sahara.
As it turned out, a facility deep in the desert was the primary R&D site for the Eastern Coalition’s nuclear warheads, and this very site was terribly guarded. The various leaders of the Eastern Coalition states had depended on the compound’s extreme isolation to protect it from danger. Perhaps if Putin had stayed interested in the project to the end, it would have had better protection, but Moroccan scientists and administrators had taken over most of the supposed ‘ICBM development,’ and Emperor Mohammad VI spent the year more interested in running for his life from Quebecois landings than troubleshooting the security program for his ultimate weapon.
In any case, near the end of the year the extremely capable Deseret Western Intelligence Agency had solved the logistics problem and landed a batch of the newly minted special forces, the Angels of Death, at the project site. They quickly seized control of everything. It was at this point that Tunisia’s leader Muammar Gaddafi, who might not have been entirely pre-informed that such an important facility was in the south of his country, realized that the project he had been tangentially involved in had been horribly compromised and sent armored columns down the Sahara, spearheaded by two divisions of his elite Bahiyya Aamina female guards. He was very aware the situation had to be controlled.
Meanwhile, strange events were unfolding at the R&D site. Hundreds of thousands of Deseret’s marines had made the semi-airlifted trek across half of Africa to support the Angels of Death, and as they were joined by an even greater number of Confederate soldiers, Gaddafi came to realize that there were more DFI-NADTA troops surrounding the R&D site than he had in his own army. His officers assessed the situation and realized they had a chance. While the Deseret-Confederate forces were supported by bribed natives and cargo planes and helicopters making round the clock flights to and from South Africa, they had very little conventional air support. One Tunisian official concluded that an army of almost half a million troops sitting in the middle of the desert was a massive sitting duck.
Unfortunately, the plan to bomb the soldiers into the next life was thrown into chaos when a Hellene Imperium invasion force of a hundred thousand took coastal Cyrenaica by storm before beginning a forced march to join the Deserets and the Confederates at the R&D site. Since the location was known to be of vital importance, but no one in the Tunisian high command had a clear picture of why the base would require so many forces, all plans at an air strike were temporarily put on hold until ground infiltration teams could sort out what was going on. One of Gaddafi’s ideas was that all the Hellenes, Deserets, and Confederates, now numbering roughly 530,000, would be beamed up by an alien spaceship, and that would be that. He ordered a call be put in to the military city that was slowly being built on top of the R&D site, and warned that his forces could quickly retake Cyrenaica and cut off a major supply line.
Meanwhile, the various Allied soldiers and special forces (The Hellene Imperium’s new and elite Talon Guard had showed up too) had been fanning out from the R&D site and generally seizing large portions of Central Africa in an attempt to feed themselves and improve logistics chains. Since they were in no immediate danger of being overrun, (which somehow was a rampant fear despite their overwhelming numerical superiority) the Allied forces contacted their various commands for further instructions, but their response was inconclusive. No one in any capital ordered a withdrawal. A few hackers in the military city cracked the codes for the twenty prototype ICBM nuclear weapons at the R&D site, and then went forth and told their commanders that if the simulations were correct, they now could destroy any number of Eastern Coalition cities quite easily. Some haughty soul informed Gaddafi that nuclear fire might be the result of moving to recapture the Cyrenaica-R&D site supply corridor. While word spread among the Eastern Coalition leaders that the Allies had access to a trove of nuclear weapons, a variety of Moroccan scientists spread the news that the Sahara location had not been the only place where research was stored. After a flurry of knowledge exchanges, every nation in the Eastern Coalition had access to comprehensive information that they could use to easily start national atomic weapons programs (or, in the case of Morocco, go straight to building ICBMs at secondary facilities safely nestled within their own territory), but the fact remained that the only operable nuclear devices at the end of 2006 were in the hands of Deseret, the Confederacy, and the Hellene Imperium, none of which had the ability to copy the advanced technology that they had become the custodians of.
Flustered, Gaddafi started an impromptu worldwide ceasefire by delivering aid to the slowly starving soldiers at the R&D site, and in the very last days of December, the guns of World War III went silent all around the world as various nations realized that one false move might lead to some sort of Armageddon. Some seriously proposed that a worldwide effort be made to create some sort of satellite missile detection and destruction system that might render all ICBMs obsolete, which would then all allow everyone to go back to killing each other in the safety of a conventional format.
Others thought that the opportunity had arisen for a true peace. Somehow.
NPC Diplomacy
To: DFI-NADTA
From: Nigeria
Help us before we are overrun!
To: ASEAN
From: Certain Javan Notables
You gave us hope for a bright future. You better come back and liberate us!
Notes
Explosives 6 was the level required to build an ICBM design. There are twenty nukes now up in the air, somewhat equally controlled by Deseret and the Hellene Imperium, with the Confederate States being somewhat less of a factor.
EDIT1: Map up.
EDIT2: Stats up. Whether there was a point for me to do them or not, I don't know, but they are still up.
Explosives 6 was the level required to build an ICBM design. There are twenty nukes now up in the air, somewhat equally controlled by Deseret and the Hellene Imperium, with the Confederate States being somewhat less of a factor.
EDIT1: Map up.
EDIT2: Stats up. Whether there was a point for me to do them or not, I don't know, but they are still up.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
Certainly interesting.
The EC has the ability to build any amount of ICBM's we want.
You have 20, that could work..
So, what do we wish to do?
The EC has the ability to build any amount of ICBM's we want.
You have 20, that could work..
So, what do we wish to do?
Abaddon
Deity
:roflol:
WTH? This is going to take some time to digest!
Fantastic update as ever! Will awards be dished soon?
Do they even have the capability to USE those missiles?
WTH? This is going to take some time to digest!
Fantastic update as ever! Will awards be dished soon?Do they even have the capability to USE those missiles?
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
Rather, if you wish for some MAD, I assure you, we can dish out more.
Challenge us. We will nuke your navy's, nuke your pathetic capitals, and of course, nuke.. say.. the Yellowstone super-volcano.
So, anyone have any ideas as to what they want to do?
Challenge us. We will nuke your navy's, nuke your pathetic capitals, and of course, nuke.. say.. the Yellowstone super-volcano.
So, anyone have any ideas as to what they want to do?
Well, in my opinion, complicated peace treaty followed by long time period update would be the path of least resistance, and would prolong the life of this NES. I don't know exactly when I can update again, but you can negotiate a treaty without me. You already know which NPCs will blindly follow which countries, so I'm not even needed for that.
Of course, more war would be interesting too, but if we decided on that we'd have to go on hiatus right away.
Various sets of orders involved hundreds of thousands of soldiers heading for a small spot in central Africa. What was I supposed to do, have them all die?
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
Rather, you supported us to the last moment, and pulled out.
And Imago, you could of gave us something. Even one nuke. At this point, we just got cluster **cked, I mean, how did all those troops even land in central Africa? We have more superior airforce! But it does nothing, while the superior DFI navy completely destroys my fleet
And Imago, you could of gave us something. Even one nuke. At this point, we just got cluster **cked, I mean, how did all those troops even land in central Africa? We have more superior airforce! But it does nothing, while the superior DFI navy completely destroys my fleet
Well...yes...because you knows....logistics.
Don't blame me for the incomptence of this alliance. If I had been made Supreme Commander as I suggested none of this would have happened, since we would have had effective coordination not half-arsed nonsense.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
It doesn't matter at this point anyway. Even if the NES wasn't being put on hold, I still hold the plans to build nukes. Yeah, they have 20. So what? We can build hundreds more, not to mention, they care about the world. We don't.
The real question, aside from how my forces didn't even put up a fight in the capital region, how the defenses I put in place were disregarded, and how 1,000,000+ soldiers were airlifted into Africa, is how did they know about this program??
The real question, aside from how my forces didn't even put up a fight in the capital region, how the defenses I put in place were disregarded, and how 1,000,000+ soldiers were airlifted into Africa, is how did they know about this program??
Abaddon
Deity
nvrmind
I don't believe TLK mentioned it one way or another, and he didn't invest anything in site security, so I came to a conclusion.
In other news...
Your forces were committed to pushing the South Africans out and defending in Iberia, and you didn't really specify what you wanted where, so I assumed that your defenses in other places included a half-completed coastal wall and your reserve system. Karalysia actually did something similar.
In my mind it was more of a semi-airlifted jungle trek. Plus it was only 430,000 who came from the south. Plus Deseret's very good spies had been planning this for a year, plus they had the support of South Africa, so all they really had to get through was Islamic Courts Union Congo, where the soldiers of that country were off helping Morocco and the people who lived in the area where the massive amounts of soldiers had to travel were oppressed and probably eager to help the enemy of the enemy.
The idea that nations with good spy agencies wouldn't get wind of an enormously expensive crash course pan-nation program to develop nuclear weapons is a little too much to believe. Your nation's enemies data mined and found a friend.
Also important to mention is that the timescale on the spotlight is very short, and vast numbers of troops were starting to starve by the end of the update. I did the best I could with what I was given. Now we just have to wait and see what germanicus says for himself. Never let it be said that this game stopped without with a bang.
In other news...
Your forces were committed to pushing the South Africans out and defending in Iberia, and you didn't really specify what you wanted where, so I assumed that your defenses in other places included a half-completed coastal wall and your reserve system. Karalysia actually did something similar.
In my mind it was more of a semi-airlifted jungle trek. Plus it was only 430,000 who came from the south. Plus Deseret's very good spies had been planning this for a year, plus they had the support of South Africa, so all they really had to get through was Islamic Courts Union Congo, where the soldiers of that country were off helping Morocco and the people who lived in the area where the massive amounts of soldiers had to travel were oppressed and probably eager to help the enemy of the enemy.
The idea that nations with good spy agencies wouldn't get wind of an enormously expensive crash course pan-nation program to develop nuclear weapons is a little too much to believe. Your nation's enemies data mined and found a friend.
Also important to mention is that the timescale on the spotlight is very short, and vast numbers of troops were starting to starve by the end of the update. I did the best I could with what I was given. Now we just have to wait and see what germanicus says for himself. Never let it be said that this game stopped without with a bang.
Anonymoose
KING OF MEESE
Xavier Suarez has died from the wound inflicted by the FEAR agent. The mayoral and governoral bodies will meet and elect a new leader soon. The next authoritarian president is not likely to be as peaceful as Xavier was.
Abaddon
Deity
This is going to take some time to digest! Fantastic update as ever! Will awards be dished soon?
Do they even have the capability to USE those missiles?
Fantastic update as ever! Will awards be dished soon?Do they even have the capability to USE those missiles?
