Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
OOC: More lol'ing over here. This is fun! 
INES II: Gone is the Old Guard
- Thread starter Imago
- Start date
Great stories/election stuff everybody!
If Nuke gets his orders in somewhat soon, there's a good chance the update will come in six hours or less (possibly much less). Otherwise, I might wait until tomorrow. The update is 99% assured for Saturday at the latest; I'm already almost through all the orders I have.
If Nuke gets his orders in somewhat soon, there's a good chance the update will come in six hours or less (possibly much less). Otherwise, I might wait until tomorrow. The update is 99% assured for Saturday at the latest; I'm already almost through all the orders I have.
Kraznaya
Princeps
The Indonesian Empire does not believe this great NES should wait to be tarnished by the actions of the Western imperialists.
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Can you wait? I am editing my 'Story'.
Oh, and to you CIA dudes out there, please advert your eyes from my story. It can destroy your mind and convert you. BTW, I am NOT a muslim or an Al-_uada Operative... this is just In Character ok?
Just making sure.
Oh, and to you CIA dudes out there, please advert your eyes from my story. It can destroy your mind and convert you. BTW, I am NOT a muslim or an Al-_uada Operative... this is just In Character ok?
Just making sure.
President Mulazim Awwal Mu’ammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Qadhafi arrives in FEAR with his elite female bodyguards to celebrate the amazing landslide victory of his dear friend First Comrade Putin.
And here they are enjoying the favorite pastime of Socialist leaders, the BONFIRE! If you look closely the fire is being fueled with all the false promises capitalist dogs have sent them in the mail.
Vertinari118
Deity
My very belated orders are in. I have got GCSE mocks and actual GCSE modules, which count towards my overall grade, after Christmas so school has been a little bit hectic.
Vertinari118
Deity
To: Great Britain
From: Brazil
We have mentioned your application formally to the member states of the Chicago Pact. We have no doubt that they will vote to admit you shortly.
germanicus12
First Citizen of Rome
OOC: Good luck getting the people to vote on these days. The Americans have a hard time voting even when it is on 1 day.
(If this is a Presidential Election, which I believe it is, it should only be on 1 day, not several, regardless of parties involved. OTL is on the second Tuesday of Novemeber. Other elections may be spread among other days.) Not sure where you are going with this. IC:
After watching the "debate" on television President Hinckley chuckled, turning to his State Secretary the two began remarking on it;
"They think we excluded them from the North American Alliance because we wanted to destroy them? *chuckling* How wrong they are."
"Yes, very wrong, after they have refused us admission into the Chicago Pact we had no choice."
"Well, one would think they would have known this would have happened, but I guess those New Yorkers are not the smartest people around."
More chuckles. Then both men went back to the news where reporters were commenting on the action in Oregon and Washington.
Update: 2001
Peaceful Events
And so we come to a new millennium. A new beginning. Few around the world arrived in 2001 particularly hopeful. Gone were the two great superpowers that had set limits on the international arena. Instead, the Earth was filled with a number of uncomfortable would-be super states, each reaching out to find some allies on an uncertain globe.
Four alliances formed. The first, the Chicago Pact, was birthed in a twisted image of NATO, founded by the American Federation on the last remnants of the clout boasted by the United States. The Chicago Pact was a vast and far-flung group, the largest of the new partnerships, joining together the Americans with the Lima Republic, Iberia, the Scandinavian Republic, Russian Republic, the South African Union, the ASEAN, the Oceanic Federation, Great Britain, the Mesopotamian Union, and the Argentine Federation. As one might imagine from so large a group, problems formed almost immediately. The first controversy was on the admission of China, which tried to blackmail its way into the Pact by threatening war with the ASEAN, but when a vote was held that expunged China from the membership roster, the Chinese held true to their threats and sent thousands of soldiers across their southern border.
(See Military Events)
The next of the alliances was the Comintern, otherwise known as the Fifth International. Truth be told, First-Citizen Vladimir Putin of the Far Eastern Republic was a staunch but pragmatic communist, so in addition to joining his nation with Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya, the Socialist Republic of France, the People’s Republic of Europe, and the Venezuelan Socialist Republic in a league of socialist brotherhood, the Comintern also brought in the capitalist Indian Republic and the capitalist Indonesian Empire as associate members. Further, with Indonesia’s help, the Comintern linked its research fund to that of Dar al-Islam, the third of the pacts, which itself had brought together every avowedly Islamic nation under one banner of association.
The last of the groupings, and the smallest, was the North American Defense and Trade Alliance, or NADTA. Formed of Quebec, Alaska, Deseret, and the Confederacy, the four states on the borders of the American Federation, no nation had trouble guessing who the alliance was aimed against.
In the Federal Republic of Alaska, the military state that became a key refuge for the old American armed forces, democracy was titularly restored in the person of Frank Murkowski, though his opponents argued that the by-election bringing him to power was unfair, as Murkowski had been the provisional incumbent as well as the military favorite. Also, efforts were made to exploit the North’s vast troves of natural resources.
Unfortunately for Deseret, richest of the NADTA constituents, a new dissident group rose to prominence in the former lands of Cascadia (an ephemeral would-be nation of the 1990s which helped bring down the United States). Titling itself the Oregon Liberation Front, the organization began to hold protests throughout Oregon, Washington, and Deseret’s part of former British Colombia. The Mormons responded to these demonstrations by moving tens of thousands of soldiers to the region and instituting martial law in the aforementioned states, even going so far as to drop leaflets from bombers to inform the most out of the way of their citizens. Roadblocks were set up on the major interstates, and tank divisions were posted in the mountains. As the days ticked by and news of the arrests of major Front leaders began to trickle in, the dynamic suddenly changed.
(See Military Events)
President Xavier Suarez of the Confederacy began a speaking tour throughout his nation, outlining his government’s commitment to serve the people. His governor in Cuba, Salvatore Guerin, made noises about a bright future, though the year’s violent counterinsurgency operation made the Cuban people unsure what to believe. Confederate economic redevelopment of the island was limited by communist sabotage efforts.
(+Confederate approval)
In the aftermath of the 2000 elections in the American Federation, the ruling Democrats handed over the reins of power to their upstart rivals the Unity Party as President Harold Stassen was sworn into office. One major plank of the Unity Party was the “unification of North America through war or alliance,” and it was argued in many intellectual circles that NADTA had formed as a direct counter to the new regime in New York, but once at the capital, Stassen pushed through Congress the Economic Recovery Act of 2001, which supported farmers, reopened factories, and generally wasn’t all that adversarial towards the American Federation’s neighbors. The Act wasn’t directly successful, as the economy trended in the right direction, but not significantly. However, the fact that Stassen seemed to have a peaceful plan for the country reconciled many liberals to the new regime, muting the obvious criticism that an extremist party had just come to power.
An Americas-based corporation run by Japanese exiles and known as Chindōgu made some good fiscal decisions and rose to international significance.
(+Chindōgu)
Venezuela took efforts to increasingly mechanize her oil, gold, diamond, and iron ore industries. A direct economic boost from this strategy would probably come later.
Brazil’s troubled negotiations with the Lima Republic over disputed Amazonian territories stalled due to American Federation interference and lack of Brazilian clarity. As a result of this mess, Brazil contributed to a Chicago Pact research fund they saw no part of, and placed a huge amount of its annual income into a ‘Chicago Pact Development Fund’ that of yet had no goals and no purpose. Also, the Brazilian government engaged in some questionable economic policies that drove their economy southwards, though some interested observers suggested that the ‘Chicago Pact Development Fund’ could be used the next year on Brazil itself to help recoup the economic losses.
(Lima approval decrease, Brazilian approval decrease)
The Argentine Federation worked hard to attract investment by foreign businessmen from nations like the American Federation, the Confederacy, and South Africa. With the chaos of the dead old world order having left the planet in need of new financial centers, Buenos Aires rose to international prominence.
(+1 Argentine ASP)
The South African Union contributed to the Freedom Research Fund, but also produced some discoveries it declined to share, provoking a verbal skirmish with diplomats from the American Federation.
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya invested in some of the infrastructure needed to connect its far-flung desert regions to the coastline.
Iberia took efforts to fortify its awkward border with the Socialist Republic of France, while their archrivals expanded the workweek and emphasized the arms industry in an attempt to bolster their shattered economy. The first measure caused unrest and minor riots, but the second was phenomenally successful due to the vast Eastern war that began in 2001.
(French approval decrease, +1 French ASP)
British leaders began a public works program aimed at ending the problem of flooding, encouraged the arrival of foreign students, removed a number of price caps, and generally tweaked the economy in a number of minor but effective ways that added up to impressive growth.
(+1 British ASP)
The Northern Collective efficiently reorganized its army and established a strong merchant marine, well-adapted for the arctic waters that form so much of the Collective’s coastline.
As the world hurtled towards the new millennium, just about anyone who knew something about the Russian Republic was aware that its government was corrupt and ineffective, its efforts to crack down on its mafias were somewhat of a joke, and its borders were so ridiculously porous that the tariffs office had effectively shut down. Unfortunately for the anarchy, President Aleksandr Dimitrievich Petrov was committed to saving the country by any means necessary, but of course things got worse before they got better.
(See Military Events)
There was a limited crackdown on communists in the Russian Republic, but such activity was barely noticed compared to other developments.
(See Military Events)
The Mesopotamian Union removed internal tariff barriers and catered to industries like tourism and manufacturing.
The Arabians invested heavily in expanding oil production.
Related to PRC’s temporary membership in the Chicago Pact, the Chinese government made noises about having free and fair elections. No substantive internal changes happened in the immediate aftermath of the subsequent voting, and the ambiguous election results were denounced as a farcical public relations stunt by a wide variety of international pundits. The PRC remained a communist dictatorship, albeit one increasingly affiliated with Western capitalist powers. It is doubtful most people in the rural areas even learned there was an ‘election.’
Military Events
The Oregon Liberation Front (who had previously assured the populace they would not be the first to strike) panicked and attempted a limited rising against Deseret’s General James Smith’s occupying force. The people of the Cascadian region had a mixed reaction, torn between the calm rhetoric of order espoused by their government and the extremely efficient nationalist propaganda machine the OLF had put in place. Some took up arms, while others just wrote angry editorials in newspapers and tagged buildings with OLF slogans. In any event, it was hard to see who really supported the Cascadian cause because the extremely high concentrations of Mormon troops in the cities quickly restored order. In the wilderness, Cascadian guerrillas had more of a chance, and an area around the Mt. Hood National Forest was still resisting by year’s end.
(Desert approval decrease)
The Confederate States began a new offensive against the last of the communist rebels on Cuba. Bombing campaigns combined with small concentrations of ground troops were successful at dismantling the last of the coherent resistance structure at the cost of destroying even more of the island.
Argentine military forces cracked down on the nation’s nascent communist rebel movement with generous use of martial law. The results were ambiguous.
In the Russian Republic, President Petrov led his government to essentially launch a coup against itself. On midnight of July 17, 2001, huge numbers of power plants across the country were shut down, and in this darkness, the Russian military combined with imported elements of the Scandinavian military to brutally attack mob strongholds throughout the nation. Distant Siberian facilities were bombed into oblivion and terrified mob members were arrested en mass. In the eastern parts of the country, the operation went off almost flawlessly, but in the west, especially around Moscow, local mafias had enough payrolled members of the Russian army to know what was coming. With the tact support of corrupt government officials, a number of the western bosses held some sort of ‘constitutional convention’ and declared the birth of a Muscovite Republic. Worried officers on the take led their units to defect over to this new nation, while the attempted midnight assaults of the Volgograd regime fizzled out when local soldiers refused to disable the local electrical grids. As the army of the Russian Republic split between loyalist and Muscovite, what had been conceived as the limited 48 hour operation ‘Rat Hunt’ became extended into a full blown civil war, Russia’s second in two decades. Front lines stabilized around the Don River, and a second theatre opened up when the Uzbeks of Central Asia took advantage of the situation to rise in revolt. Meanwhile, President Petrov must have come to the conclusion that the house on fire just had to be torn down, because he relabeled his Russian Republic the Russian Empire and pulled the Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov out of exile in Iberia to place him on a restored Russian throne. The Grand Duke became the Tsar George I, President Petrov relabeled himself Prime Minister Petrov, and the Orthodox Russian Church blessed these proceedings while a stunned Russian general public were assured prompt national elections under the new regime of a constitutional monarchy. Still, the fact that the government was acting with a clarity and determination not seen in decades was enough to galvanize many people into supporting the system. Authoritarian communism had failed in Russia. So had democratic capitalism. Why not give the empire a second chance? Too, the fact that the Muscovite Republic was run by a collection of mafias helped the people realize they had a common enemy.
(+Muscovite Republic, Imperial Russian approval increase, -7 Imperial Russian divisions, -4 Imperial Russian groups, -1 Scandinavian division, -1 Scandinavian group)
China implodes…
(See Spotlight)
(-4 Chinese ASP, Chinese approval decrease, -25 Chinese divisions, -5 Chinese squadrons, -9 Chinese groups, -1 Indian division, -5 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR squadrons, -2 FEAR groups, -1 Tunisian group, -1 Indonesian division, -2 Indonesian squadrons, -1 American division, -4 ASEAN divisions, -1 British division, -1 Brazilian division)
Peaceful Events
And so we come to a new millennium. A new beginning. Few around the world arrived in 2001 particularly hopeful. Gone were the two great superpowers that had set limits on the international arena. Instead, the Earth was filled with a number of uncomfortable would-be super states, each reaching out to find some allies on an uncertain globe.
Four alliances formed. The first, the Chicago Pact, was birthed in a twisted image of NATO, founded by the American Federation on the last remnants of the clout boasted by the United States. The Chicago Pact was a vast and far-flung group, the largest of the new partnerships, joining together the Americans with the Lima Republic, Iberia, the Scandinavian Republic, Russian Republic, the South African Union, the ASEAN, the Oceanic Federation, Great Britain, the Mesopotamian Union, and the Argentine Federation. As one might imagine from so large a group, problems formed almost immediately. The first controversy was on the admission of China, which tried to blackmail its way into the Pact by threatening war with the ASEAN, but when a vote was held that expunged China from the membership roster, the Chinese held true to their threats and sent thousands of soldiers across their southern border.
(See Military Events)
The next of the alliances was the Comintern, otherwise known as the Fifth International. Truth be told, First-Citizen Vladimir Putin of the Far Eastern Republic was a staunch but pragmatic communist, so in addition to joining his nation with Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya, the Socialist Republic of France, the People’s Republic of Europe, and the Venezuelan Socialist Republic in a league of socialist brotherhood, the Comintern also brought in the capitalist Indian Republic and the capitalist Indonesian Empire as associate members. Further, with Indonesia’s help, the Comintern linked its research fund to that of Dar al-Islam, the third of the pacts, which itself had brought together every avowedly Islamic nation under one banner of association.
The last of the groupings, and the smallest, was the North American Defense and Trade Alliance, or NADTA. Formed of Quebec, Alaska, Deseret, and the Confederacy, the four states on the borders of the American Federation, no nation had trouble guessing who the alliance was aimed against.
In the Federal Republic of Alaska, the military state that became a key refuge for the old American armed forces, democracy was titularly restored in the person of Frank Murkowski, though his opponents argued that the by-election bringing him to power was unfair, as Murkowski had been the provisional incumbent as well as the military favorite. Also, efforts were made to exploit the North’s vast troves of natural resources.
Unfortunately for Deseret, richest of the NADTA constituents, a new dissident group rose to prominence in the former lands of Cascadia (an ephemeral would-be nation of the 1990s which helped bring down the United States). Titling itself the Oregon Liberation Front, the organization began to hold protests throughout Oregon, Washington, and Deseret’s part of former British Colombia. The Mormons responded to these demonstrations by moving tens of thousands of soldiers to the region and instituting martial law in the aforementioned states, even going so far as to drop leaflets from bombers to inform the most out of the way of their citizens. Roadblocks were set up on the major interstates, and tank divisions were posted in the mountains. As the days ticked by and news of the arrests of major Front leaders began to trickle in, the dynamic suddenly changed.
(See Military Events)
President Xavier Suarez of the Confederacy began a speaking tour throughout his nation, outlining his government’s commitment to serve the people. His governor in Cuba, Salvatore Guerin, made noises about a bright future, though the year’s violent counterinsurgency operation made the Cuban people unsure what to believe. Confederate economic redevelopment of the island was limited by communist sabotage efforts.
(+Confederate approval)
In the aftermath of the 2000 elections in the American Federation, the ruling Democrats handed over the reins of power to their upstart rivals the Unity Party as President Harold Stassen was sworn into office. One major plank of the Unity Party was the “unification of North America through war or alliance,” and it was argued in many intellectual circles that NADTA had formed as a direct counter to the new regime in New York, but once at the capital, Stassen pushed through Congress the Economic Recovery Act of 2001, which supported farmers, reopened factories, and generally wasn’t all that adversarial towards the American Federation’s neighbors. The Act wasn’t directly successful, as the economy trended in the right direction, but not significantly. However, the fact that Stassen seemed to have a peaceful plan for the country reconciled many liberals to the new regime, muting the obvious criticism that an extremist party had just come to power.
An Americas-based corporation run by Japanese exiles and known as Chindōgu made some good fiscal decisions and rose to international significance.
(+Chindōgu)
Venezuela took efforts to increasingly mechanize her oil, gold, diamond, and iron ore industries. A direct economic boost from this strategy would probably come later.
Brazil’s troubled negotiations with the Lima Republic over disputed Amazonian territories stalled due to American Federation interference and lack of Brazilian clarity. As a result of this mess, Brazil contributed to a Chicago Pact research fund they saw no part of, and placed a huge amount of its annual income into a ‘Chicago Pact Development Fund’ that of yet had no goals and no purpose. Also, the Brazilian government engaged in some questionable economic policies that drove their economy southwards, though some interested observers suggested that the ‘Chicago Pact Development Fund’ could be used the next year on Brazil itself to help recoup the economic losses.
(Lima approval decrease, Brazilian approval decrease)
The Argentine Federation worked hard to attract investment by foreign businessmen from nations like the American Federation, the Confederacy, and South Africa. With the chaos of the dead old world order having left the planet in need of new financial centers, Buenos Aires rose to international prominence.
(+1 Argentine ASP)
The South African Union contributed to the Freedom Research Fund, but also produced some discoveries it declined to share, provoking a verbal skirmish with diplomats from the American Federation.
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya invested in some of the infrastructure needed to connect its far-flung desert regions to the coastline.
Iberia took efforts to fortify its awkward border with the Socialist Republic of France, while their archrivals expanded the workweek and emphasized the arms industry in an attempt to bolster their shattered economy. The first measure caused unrest and minor riots, but the second was phenomenally successful due to the vast Eastern war that began in 2001.
(French approval decrease, +1 French ASP)
British leaders began a public works program aimed at ending the problem of flooding, encouraged the arrival of foreign students, removed a number of price caps, and generally tweaked the economy in a number of minor but effective ways that added up to impressive growth.
(+1 British ASP)
The Northern Collective efficiently reorganized its army and established a strong merchant marine, well-adapted for the arctic waters that form so much of the Collective’s coastline.
As the world hurtled towards the new millennium, just about anyone who knew something about the Russian Republic was aware that its government was corrupt and ineffective, its efforts to crack down on its mafias were somewhat of a joke, and its borders were so ridiculously porous that the tariffs office had effectively shut down. Unfortunately for the anarchy, President Aleksandr Dimitrievich Petrov was committed to saving the country by any means necessary, but of course things got worse before they got better.
(See Military Events)
There was a limited crackdown on communists in the Russian Republic, but such activity was barely noticed compared to other developments.
(See Military Events)
The Mesopotamian Union removed internal tariff barriers and catered to industries like tourism and manufacturing.
The Arabians invested heavily in expanding oil production.
Related to PRC’s temporary membership in the Chicago Pact, the Chinese government made noises about having free and fair elections. No substantive internal changes happened in the immediate aftermath of the subsequent voting, and the ambiguous election results were denounced as a farcical public relations stunt by a wide variety of international pundits. The PRC remained a communist dictatorship, albeit one increasingly affiliated with Western capitalist powers. It is doubtful most people in the rural areas even learned there was an ‘election.’
Military Events
The Oregon Liberation Front (who had previously assured the populace they would not be the first to strike) panicked and attempted a limited rising against Deseret’s General James Smith’s occupying force. The people of the Cascadian region had a mixed reaction, torn between the calm rhetoric of order espoused by their government and the extremely efficient nationalist propaganda machine the OLF had put in place. Some took up arms, while others just wrote angry editorials in newspapers and tagged buildings with OLF slogans. In any event, it was hard to see who really supported the Cascadian cause because the extremely high concentrations of Mormon troops in the cities quickly restored order. In the wilderness, Cascadian guerrillas had more of a chance, and an area around the Mt. Hood National Forest was still resisting by year’s end.
(Desert approval decrease)
The Confederate States began a new offensive against the last of the communist rebels on Cuba. Bombing campaigns combined with small concentrations of ground troops were successful at dismantling the last of the coherent resistance structure at the cost of destroying even more of the island.
Argentine military forces cracked down on the nation’s nascent communist rebel movement with generous use of martial law. The results were ambiguous.
In the Russian Republic, President Petrov led his government to essentially launch a coup against itself. On midnight of July 17, 2001, huge numbers of power plants across the country were shut down, and in this darkness, the Russian military combined with imported elements of the Scandinavian military to brutally attack mob strongholds throughout the nation. Distant Siberian facilities were bombed into oblivion and terrified mob members were arrested en mass. In the eastern parts of the country, the operation went off almost flawlessly, but in the west, especially around Moscow, local mafias had enough payrolled members of the Russian army to know what was coming. With the tact support of corrupt government officials, a number of the western bosses held some sort of ‘constitutional convention’ and declared the birth of a Muscovite Republic. Worried officers on the take led their units to defect over to this new nation, while the attempted midnight assaults of the Volgograd regime fizzled out when local soldiers refused to disable the local electrical grids. As the army of the Russian Republic split between loyalist and Muscovite, what had been conceived as the limited 48 hour operation ‘Rat Hunt’ became extended into a full blown civil war, Russia’s second in two decades. Front lines stabilized around the Don River, and a second theatre opened up when the Uzbeks of Central Asia took advantage of the situation to rise in revolt. Meanwhile, President Petrov must have come to the conclusion that the house on fire just had to be torn down, because he relabeled his Russian Republic the Russian Empire and pulled the Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov out of exile in Iberia to place him on a restored Russian throne. The Grand Duke became the Tsar George I, President Petrov relabeled himself Prime Minister Petrov, and the Orthodox Russian Church blessed these proceedings while a stunned Russian general public were assured prompt national elections under the new regime of a constitutional monarchy. Still, the fact that the government was acting with a clarity and determination not seen in decades was enough to galvanize many people into supporting the system. Authoritarian communism had failed in Russia. So had democratic capitalism. Why not give the empire a second chance? Too, the fact that the Muscovite Republic was run by a collection of mafias helped the people realize they had a common enemy.
(+Muscovite Republic, Imperial Russian approval increase, -7 Imperial Russian divisions, -4 Imperial Russian groups, -1 Scandinavian division, -1 Scandinavian group)
China implodes…
(See Spotlight)
(-4 Chinese ASP, Chinese approval decrease, -25 Chinese divisions, -5 Chinese squadrons, -9 Chinese groups, -1 Indian division, -5 FEAR divisions, -2 FEAR squadrons, -2 FEAR groups, -1 Tunisian group, -1 Indonesian division, -2 Indonesian squadrons, -1 American division, -4 ASEAN divisions, -1 British division, -1 Brazilian division)
Story Events
Iberia is a surprisingly patriotic country.
(Iberian approval increase)
The American Federation’s smooth 2000 presidential elections leave the country with a feeling of pride.
(American approval increase)
The South African Union is technologically capable.
(+1 South African Aeronautics investment point)
Many more than expected enlist in the Confederate States’ army.
(+5 Confederate divisions)
Someone forgot five whole divisions of the Chinese army in an accounting error.
(+5 Chinese divisions)
Alaska is very well organized.
(Alaskan approval increase)
Brazil has a big air force.
(+5 Brazilian groups)
The Far Eastern Republic’s citizens redouble their efforts at building a utopia!
(FEAR approval increase)
Deseret gears up to deal with the Oregon Liberation Front.
(+5 Deseret divisions)
Some Argentineans spotted the mod.
(+5 Argentine groups)
The ASEAN’s navy is quite vigilant.
(+5 ASEAN squadrons)
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya has a powerful army.
(+5 Tunisian divisions)
Spotlight: The Great War of East Asia
“We turned the Axis back at Moscow, but the Chinese will not turn us back at Chengdu.”
-First-Citizen Vladimir Putin of the Far Eastern Republic
At the start 2001, the People’s Republic of China was something of a pariah state. President Qui-Jun might or might not have had a plan to fix that, as the truth was somewhat unclear. More clear was that the PRC threatened the ASEAN and declared war on it twice in the space of three hundred and sixty-five days, which resulted in the Chicago Pact’s first major foreign challenge. Many of the states of the Pact rose to the challenge, with the American Federation, Iberia, Lima, and Great Britain all contributing substantial amounts of troops to Operation Chinese Freedom. Brazil also committed soldiers despite the nation’s strange relationship with the Chicago Pact, which had arisen because American misinterpretation of the state of a Lima-Brazilian peace deal had completely stalled that process. Of course, the ASEAN itself cut no corners in its defense, actively planning an audacious assault into Chinese heartland. Still, Operation Chinese Freedom did not stand at center stage of the Great East Asian War. Why?
The Far Eastern Republic struck first. All but unnoticed amidst the flurry of diplomacy following China’s second declaration of war against the ASEAN, the PRC had sent a threatening message to FEAR. FEAR did not take kindly to such aggression, and so prepared and initiated Operation Slaying the Dragon, which began with the First Revolutionary Army of the Republic’s massive blitz into the Shandong peninsula as it employed a combined arms strategy that involved attack gunships, rockets, and the heavy use of VX gas. Outnumbered and with limited air support, the Chinese armies deployed on the border began to fall back, trying to buy time for the vast number of Chinese reserves to come from the interior to their aid. Of course, just as the PRC was making calculations to stall the Revolutionary Army around the Huai River, First-Citizen Putin unleashed a second attack force, the Third Shock Army. Heavily mechanized and driving straight for the Chinese capital of Chengdu, the Third had almost reached its objective when ASEAN and allied forces finally became relevant to the narrative.
Flashing back, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers had begun their invasion of ASEAN territory somewhat before FEAR had begun its dynamic sweep southwards. The Chinese had succeeded in at least threatening all of Guangdong and northern Vietnam before ASEAN and the Chicago Pact Expeditionary Forces pulled their acts together and began pushing Chinese forces back towards the border. Again, air support played a crucial role in this turnabout, with China’s deployment spotty at best, while ASEAN had air support fully integrated into their defense system. Still, in this theater of operations ASEAN and allied soldiers were too outnumbered to engage in any game changing aggressive maneuvers. President Adanan, the freshly elected leader of ASEAN, had left such strategies to other armies.
Firstly, the ASEAN 2nd Corps had begun a drive up the Mekong River as soon as the Guangdong front stabilized. Unfortunately, the troops of this unit had to deal with some of the Chinese offensive before they could mount their own, which derailed plans enough to make the 2nd Corps advance slow and lumbering. Their ultimate goal of Chengdu was captured by FEAR forces without the 2nd Corps ever having a legitimate chance to win the race. Still, by the time Chengdu had fallen, the Chinese leadership had fled to locations unknown, which gave the war more time to develop.
Back at the Chinese coastline, the First Revolutionary Army sustained significant losses but smashed through PRC defenses with the help of a pincer offensive from elements of the Third Shock, which had veered away from the strike at Chengdu in a calculated attempt to help their fellows to the east. The Huai River was crossed, a vast portion of the Chinese army was encircled and destroyed around Xi’an, and the next target for FEAR’s military became the Shanghai metropolis region. China north of the Yangtze had been almost entirely subdued. The Chinese switched tactics and dug line after line of trenches around their urban concentrations while First-Citizen Putin’s soldiers responded by resorting to heavy bombing, leaning on their assistance force of Tunisian pilots and craft to increase the amount of destruction. Finally, the Chinese air force assembled with coherence, and the sorties around the skies of the Yangtze mouth proved resistance enough for a FEAR commander to decide the land was more trouble than it was worth and ordered many of the Far Eastern Republic’s divisions to move on, heading for Fuzhou in an attempt to deny even more territory to the ASEAN and its allies. Suddenly, the East Asian War had become less about China and more about a land grab.
But if FEAR had meant to deny all Chinese heartland to ASEAN, Putin had sorely miscalculated. The ASEAN 1st Corps launched a daring marine attack on the Shanghai area, which penetrated from behind the blockades and encountered minimal resistance as Chinese commanders bowed to the inevitable and surrendered. Of course, the FEAR camp did not immediately catch wind of these developments, and bombs continued to fall over newly occupied Shanghai until FEAR regional commanders received several confirmations that the territory was no longer hostile. Meanwhile, Fuzhou fell to the First Revolutionary Army, but FEAR forces had arrived at such a disjointed strategic situation that the result was not much celebrated in elite circles. The Chinese army had ceased to be a significant factor in Chinese heartland, but a huge clump of Chicago Pact forces were firmly planted well behind what FEAR had hoped to be the front lines of a potential new conflict.
In a subsidiary theatre, the Indian Republic engaged in a border scuffle with the Chinese and then launched an invasion of Chinese held northern India, undermined by a distinct lack of commitment on the part of Indian commanders, who left the majority of their soldiers back in the homeland. Tibet and Burma remained solidly in the hands of what remained of the Chinese central government, even despite a brief and poorly organized Tibetan uprising. Also interestingly, a substantial portion of the force the Chinese had used to try and invade ASEAN was trapped on the border between the two countries, unable to move forward due to well entrenched defenders, and unable to retreat because FEAR had demolished roads and occupied the heartland.
Yet this cannot be considered a full description of East Asian War’s first year. Conflicts over Japan were the coda to the saga. Firstly, the FEAR Revolutionary First Fleet attempted a blockade of the home islands, but this alone among Putin’s stratagems was poorly thought out, as the Chinese and Eastern Republic navies were equal in size and technological advancement. The FEAR taskforce occupied the Oki Islands before being set upon by a determined Chinese fleet, which bloodied the FEAR navy enough for the admirals to cancel any encirclement of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. However, this effort was not enough for the Japanese islands to remain firmly under the thumb of the eastern Chinese remnants. Not one but two invasion forces set out to claim the Land of the Rising Sun, one setting forth from Indonesia and the other setting forth from the American Federation under an entirely different command than the troops they had contributed to the Chicago Pact Expeditionary Force.
The first invasion fleet to arrive was the Indonesian one, by virtue of their archipelago’s shorter distance from the action. The Indonesians quickly stormed Okinawa (the Chinese on that island apparently unwilling to be copycats and put up intrepid resistance) and then proceeded to launch amphibious invasions of both Honshu and Kyushu while propping up the first pretender to the Japanese Imperial throne that they could find. His very public swearing of allegiance to Indonesian Emperor Suharto Ismail I dispelled any illusions that the Indonesians would really let Japan be independent, though the word on the bombed out street seemed to be that the Indonesians would allow the Japanese some sort of autonomous vassal state if their invasion proved triumphant.
The monkey wrench came when the American Federation task force showed up. Its fleet was a third the size of the Indonesian armada, but without explicit orders to engage, the Indonesian captains stayed clear of their erstwhile allies, allowing the Americans to land on north Honshu and perform a coup de grace on the Chinese defenders, which left the region somewhat unevenly and tensely split between the two would-be world powers. Throughout the year, the Chinese fleet engaged in limited skirmishes with both the Indonesian and the American navies, but by the end of December it was confined to the waters around Cheju-do, the last remaining Chinese possession in the Pacific.
NPC Diplomacy
To: Chicago Pact
From: Chindōgu
We will donate our 1 ASP to your research fund each and every turn if we are allowed to share in all the discoveries.
To: World
From: Muscovite Republic
An old relic from the past is attacking us, and we need help! We would be willing to negotiate generous terms in exchange for any assistance.
To: ASEAN
From: People of the Shanghai Area
Please don’t abandon us to FEAR!
To: ASEAN
From: Chinese Army in Southern China
We are willing to negotiate a surrender apart from our central government. Name your terms.
Iberia is a surprisingly patriotic country.
(Iberian approval increase)
The American Federation’s smooth 2000 presidential elections leave the country with a feeling of pride.
(American approval increase)
The South African Union is technologically capable.
(+1 South African Aeronautics investment point)
Many more than expected enlist in the Confederate States’ army.
(+5 Confederate divisions)
Someone forgot five whole divisions of the Chinese army in an accounting error.
(+5 Chinese divisions)
Alaska is very well organized.
(Alaskan approval increase)
Brazil has a big air force.
(+5 Brazilian groups)
The Far Eastern Republic’s citizens redouble their efforts at building a utopia!
(FEAR approval increase)
Deseret gears up to deal with the Oregon Liberation Front.
(+5 Deseret divisions)
Some Argentineans spotted the mod.
(+5 Argentine groups)
The ASEAN’s navy is quite vigilant.
(+5 ASEAN squadrons)
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya has a powerful army.
(+5 Tunisian divisions)
Spotlight: The Great War of East Asia
“We turned the Axis back at Moscow, but the Chinese will not turn us back at Chengdu.”
-First-Citizen Vladimir Putin of the Far Eastern Republic
At the start 2001, the People’s Republic of China was something of a pariah state. President Qui-Jun might or might not have had a plan to fix that, as the truth was somewhat unclear. More clear was that the PRC threatened the ASEAN and declared war on it twice in the space of three hundred and sixty-five days, which resulted in the Chicago Pact’s first major foreign challenge. Many of the states of the Pact rose to the challenge, with the American Federation, Iberia, Lima, and Great Britain all contributing substantial amounts of troops to Operation Chinese Freedom. Brazil also committed soldiers despite the nation’s strange relationship with the Chicago Pact, which had arisen because American misinterpretation of the state of a Lima-Brazilian peace deal had completely stalled that process. Of course, the ASEAN itself cut no corners in its defense, actively planning an audacious assault into Chinese heartland. Still, Operation Chinese Freedom did not stand at center stage of the Great East Asian War. Why?
The Far Eastern Republic struck first. All but unnoticed amidst the flurry of diplomacy following China’s second declaration of war against the ASEAN, the PRC had sent a threatening message to FEAR. FEAR did not take kindly to such aggression, and so prepared and initiated Operation Slaying the Dragon, which began with the First Revolutionary Army of the Republic’s massive blitz into the Shandong peninsula as it employed a combined arms strategy that involved attack gunships, rockets, and the heavy use of VX gas. Outnumbered and with limited air support, the Chinese armies deployed on the border began to fall back, trying to buy time for the vast number of Chinese reserves to come from the interior to their aid. Of course, just as the PRC was making calculations to stall the Revolutionary Army around the Huai River, First-Citizen Putin unleashed a second attack force, the Third Shock Army. Heavily mechanized and driving straight for the Chinese capital of Chengdu, the Third had almost reached its objective when ASEAN and allied forces finally became relevant to the narrative.
Flashing back, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers had begun their invasion of ASEAN territory somewhat before FEAR had begun its dynamic sweep southwards. The Chinese had succeeded in at least threatening all of Guangdong and northern Vietnam before ASEAN and the Chicago Pact Expeditionary Forces pulled their acts together and began pushing Chinese forces back towards the border. Again, air support played a crucial role in this turnabout, with China’s deployment spotty at best, while ASEAN had air support fully integrated into their defense system. Still, in this theater of operations ASEAN and allied soldiers were too outnumbered to engage in any game changing aggressive maneuvers. President Adanan, the freshly elected leader of ASEAN, had left such strategies to other armies.
Firstly, the ASEAN 2nd Corps had begun a drive up the Mekong River as soon as the Guangdong front stabilized. Unfortunately, the troops of this unit had to deal with some of the Chinese offensive before they could mount their own, which derailed plans enough to make the 2nd Corps advance slow and lumbering. Their ultimate goal of Chengdu was captured by FEAR forces without the 2nd Corps ever having a legitimate chance to win the race. Still, by the time Chengdu had fallen, the Chinese leadership had fled to locations unknown, which gave the war more time to develop.
Back at the Chinese coastline, the First Revolutionary Army sustained significant losses but smashed through PRC defenses with the help of a pincer offensive from elements of the Third Shock, which had veered away from the strike at Chengdu in a calculated attempt to help their fellows to the east. The Huai River was crossed, a vast portion of the Chinese army was encircled and destroyed around Xi’an, and the next target for FEAR’s military became the Shanghai metropolis region. China north of the Yangtze had been almost entirely subdued. The Chinese switched tactics and dug line after line of trenches around their urban concentrations while First-Citizen Putin’s soldiers responded by resorting to heavy bombing, leaning on their assistance force of Tunisian pilots and craft to increase the amount of destruction. Finally, the Chinese air force assembled with coherence, and the sorties around the skies of the Yangtze mouth proved resistance enough for a FEAR commander to decide the land was more trouble than it was worth and ordered many of the Far Eastern Republic’s divisions to move on, heading for Fuzhou in an attempt to deny even more territory to the ASEAN and its allies. Suddenly, the East Asian War had become less about China and more about a land grab.
But if FEAR had meant to deny all Chinese heartland to ASEAN, Putin had sorely miscalculated. The ASEAN 1st Corps launched a daring marine attack on the Shanghai area, which penetrated from behind the blockades and encountered minimal resistance as Chinese commanders bowed to the inevitable and surrendered. Of course, the FEAR camp did not immediately catch wind of these developments, and bombs continued to fall over newly occupied Shanghai until FEAR regional commanders received several confirmations that the territory was no longer hostile. Meanwhile, Fuzhou fell to the First Revolutionary Army, but FEAR forces had arrived at such a disjointed strategic situation that the result was not much celebrated in elite circles. The Chinese army had ceased to be a significant factor in Chinese heartland, but a huge clump of Chicago Pact forces were firmly planted well behind what FEAR had hoped to be the front lines of a potential new conflict.
In a subsidiary theatre, the Indian Republic engaged in a border scuffle with the Chinese and then launched an invasion of Chinese held northern India, undermined by a distinct lack of commitment on the part of Indian commanders, who left the majority of their soldiers back in the homeland. Tibet and Burma remained solidly in the hands of what remained of the Chinese central government, even despite a brief and poorly organized Tibetan uprising. Also interestingly, a substantial portion of the force the Chinese had used to try and invade ASEAN was trapped on the border between the two countries, unable to move forward due to well entrenched defenders, and unable to retreat because FEAR had demolished roads and occupied the heartland.
Yet this cannot be considered a full description of East Asian War’s first year. Conflicts over Japan were the coda to the saga. Firstly, the FEAR Revolutionary First Fleet attempted a blockade of the home islands, but this alone among Putin’s stratagems was poorly thought out, as the Chinese and Eastern Republic navies were equal in size and technological advancement. The FEAR taskforce occupied the Oki Islands before being set upon by a determined Chinese fleet, which bloodied the FEAR navy enough for the admirals to cancel any encirclement of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. However, this effort was not enough for the Japanese islands to remain firmly under the thumb of the eastern Chinese remnants. Not one but two invasion forces set out to claim the Land of the Rising Sun, one setting forth from Indonesia and the other setting forth from the American Federation under an entirely different command than the troops they had contributed to the Chicago Pact Expeditionary Force.
The first invasion fleet to arrive was the Indonesian one, by virtue of their archipelago’s shorter distance from the action. The Indonesians quickly stormed Okinawa (the Chinese on that island apparently unwilling to be copycats and put up intrepid resistance) and then proceeded to launch amphibious invasions of both Honshu and Kyushu while propping up the first pretender to the Japanese Imperial throne that they could find. His very public swearing of allegiance to Indonesian Emperor Suharto Ismail I dispelled any illusions that the Indonesians would really let Japan be independent, though the word on the bombed out street seemed to be that the Indonesians would allow the Japanese some sort of autonomous vassal state if their invasion proved triumphant.
The monkey wrench came when the American Federation task force showed up. Its fleet was a third the size of the Indonesian armada, but without explicit orders to engage, the Indonesian captains stayed clear of their erstwhile allies, allowing the Americans to land on north Honshu and perform a coup de grace on the Chinese defenders, which left the region somewhat unevenly and tensely split between the two would-be world powers. Throughout the year, the Chinese fleet engaged in limited skirmishes with both the Indonesian and the American navies, but by the end of December it was confined to the waters around Cheju-do, the last remaining Chinese possession in the Pacific.
NPC Diplomacy
To: Chicago Pact
From: Chindōgu
We will donate our 1 ASP to your research fund each and every turn if we are allowed to share in all the discoveries.
To: World
From: Muscovite Republic
An old relic from the past is attacking us, and we need help! We would be willing to negotiate generous terms in exchange for any assistance.
To: ASEAN
From: People of the Shanghai Area
Please don’t abandon us to FEAR!
To: ASEAN
From: Chinese Army in Southern China
We are willing to negotiate a surrender apart from our central government. Name your terms.
Notes
If you did not get an ASP boost despite investment, invest again this turn with even just 1 ASP and you're almost sure to get a boost. Those who invested 3 ASP in growth did not have their boost show up in the update because it was automatic, but those who invested 1 or 2 ASP and did get a boost had a mention.
Flavius Aetius is dropped due to not posting in this thread or sending orders. TerrisH, just claim the Central European Union. For all you others who did not send orders, I'll probably automatically drop you if you don't post and you do it again.
EDIT 1: Map up.
EDIT 2: Stats up.
If you did not get an ASP boost despite investment, invest again this turn with even just 1 ASP and you're almost sure to get a boost. Those who invested 3 ASP in growth did not have their boost show up in the update because it was automatic, but those who invested 1 or 2 ASP and did get a boost had a mention.
Flavius Aetius is dropped due to not posting in this thread or sending orders. TerrisH, just claim the Central European Union. For all you others who did not send orders, I'll probably automatically drop you if you don't post and you do it again.
EDIT 1: Map up.
EDIT 2: Stats up.
Kraznaya
Princeps
To:American Federation
From: The Kingdom of Japan and the Indonesian Empire
Withdraw from Japan now, or we will be forced to destroy you.
OOC:
Imago, we do not declare ourselves "capitalist" or "communist." We practice sensible economics that are not ideological in nature and spend our money morally as commanded by the Qu'ran.
Also, are the bonuses for stories? Does every story get a bonus?
From: The Kingdom of Japan and the Indonesian Empire
Withdraw from Japan now, or we will be forced to destroy you.
OOC:
Imago, we do not declare ourselves "capitalist" or "communist." We practice sensible economics that are not ideological in nature and spend our money morally as commanded by the Qu'ran.
Also, are the bonuses for stories? Does every story get a bonus?
OOC: Indonesia might not see itself as capitalist, but from the perspective of the Comintern, Indonesia is, and in that section of the update, I was writing from the perspective of the Comintern.
As for the stories, everyone who does at least one during a turn gets a boost approximately equal to 1 ASP, though stories can influence approval more directly than ASP can. It's not a game-breaking bonus for those who don't want to write stories, but it does encourage people to put time into worldbuilding, which I enjoy very much.
As for the stories, everyone who does at least one during a turn gets a boost approximately equal to 1 ASP, though stories can influence approval more directly than ASP can. It's not a game-breaking bonus for those who don't want to write stories, but it does encourage people to put time into worldbuilding, which I enjoy very much.
Kraznaya
Princeps
OOC: Which Comintern countries have labeled us as "capitalist?" From what I understand all the communists have player characters and none of them have labeled us "capitalist."
