germanicus12
First Citizen of Rome
That list was more directed to your "new" ally, not really at you. I also listed that as a joke and was supposed to be taken OOC. Sorry if I hurt you.
INES II: Gone is the Old Guard
- Thread starter Imago
- Start date
That list was more directed to your "new" ally, not really at you. I also listed that as a joke and was supposed to be taken OOC. Sorry if I hurt you.
Abaddon
Deity
Can I suggest we cease this tsunami of spam until after the update? Or are you guys just as excited as I am and find it impossible to stop?
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Ii don't know, how many of you have the B***r?
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
Yes. Me and my new ally, North Africa. We're the two best friends that anyone could have. And we would never ever leave each- eh, I'm guessing we've seen the movie.
Hey, it's no problem man. I'm a bit tired today, and probably just misread it. This is just a game, I should assume their really wouldn't be many personal insults haha.
That one.
And besides, it wasn't all bad. The West and North African Mutual Protection Pact has been created-
Any attacks on Morocco is an attack on North Africa A.k.a Polan
Any attacks on Poland is an attack to be supported by Morocco
-Signed, Mohammad IV
bestrfcplayer
Steppin' up!
So your supporting me, and supporting my destruction at the same time?
Ah what the heck, signed by President Solvaski Tutitus.
Ah what the heck, signed by President Solvaski Tutitus.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
No, not at all.
If I get attacked, you will support me, in defending my homelands.
If you get attack, I will support the attackers, while you defend your homelands.
It's a completely different scenario. Imago, please include this in your update.
If I get attacked, you will support me, in defending my homelands.
If you get attack, I will support the attackers, while you defend your homelands.
It's a completely different scenario. Imago, please include this in your update.
Abaddon
Deity
Omega124
Challenging Fate
Update: 2005
Peaceful Events
Perhaps the most important scientific event of 2005 was the union of NADTA and the Democratic Front International into a single technology alliance, but such did not come easy. The motion stalled in the bodies’ Joint Commission with but a single vote remaining to finalize the deal, and only ended up succeeding when several nations who had not been signatories to the agreement acted as if the agreement was actually in place. A few quick thinking diplomats decided they had enough precedent to print some documents that made de facto into de jure, and that was that. Unfortunately, legal summersaults were not enough to prevent the NADTA-DFI alliance from colliding into the Eastern Coalition and beginning a conflict that some considered World War III.
(See Military Events)
The Eastern Coalition also had a bookkeeping issue that stemmed from the way their technology fund was run. It was a joint partnership between the Comintern and Dar al-Islam, and had nothing to do with the EC on paper, and so the Argentine Federation’s membership into that last body entitled it to absolutely no scientific benefits, a circumstance with was somewhat unfortunate due to the continuing fighting in South America.
(See Military Events)
Given the state of the world, the Federal Republic of Alaska had an oddly good year. The nation rejoined NADTA, troops returned home victorious from the Great North American War (even if many were quickly redeployed to conflict areas around the world), a small bit of land was annexed, and costal and island strongpoints were further strengthened. Perhaps most importantly, the nation held its first real election in many years, resulting in the ascension of the Alaska Democratic Party’s Mike Gavel to the presidency in the aftermath of a divided vote. Since Gavel won only 38% percent, he entered office dependent on coalition partners to keep him afloat, but the fact that the military stayed clear of the matter was seen even by his opponents to be a very good sign.
The Moroccan-led forces of Dar-al Islam swiftly left Quebec, and la belle Republique invested heavily in rebuilding from the air strike damage and compensating property holders. With the resurrection of key trade routes, the Quebecois economy began to pick up, but further recovery would require time, not money.
(+1 Quebecois ASP)
Cascadia had been allowed to join NADTA in 2004, but it was not until 2005 that the Treaty of Salt Lake sorted out official borders with the Theocratic Republic of Deseret. Led by Harold Sampton, (the Cougar of the Oregon Liberation Front stepped out of the shadows) Portland extended authority over Washington, Oregon, and Deseret’s areas of old British Colombia. Sampton did not wait long to begin development projects on his new nation, inaugurating a bridge across the Colombia River by the end of the year and furthering a program to teach guerrilla tactics to average citizens so that any future occupation would be more trouble than it was worth. In general, he was showered with praise. Cascadian nationalism was on the rise.
(Cascadian approval increase)
Cascadia made a deal with a company named Shin-Ra, catapulting the latter to the world stage. In short order, Shin-Ra took stewardship of the power and water grids of the nation, making them much more efficient and reaping a hefty profit in the process. While some Cascadians decried that the influence of such a powerful corporation on a new country could only lead to bad things, others argued that Shin-Ra was helping to begin a national economic boom.
(+Shin-Ra)
With the Treaty of Salt Lake securing the north, the Treaty of Mexico City securing the south, and the Treaty of Chicago restoring Hawaii and securing the east, Deseret’s government began financing the reconstruction of their war torn nation, with special emphasis paid to rebuilding Dallas and helping the farmers of the Great Plains. The country’s drafted soldiers were released with bonuses.
(+1 Deseret ASP, -10 Deseret conscript divisions)
The 2005 Treaty of Chicago put an end to the Great North American War. In truth, the fighting could not have come to an end without the parallel treaties of Salt Lake and Mexico City, the gentlemen’s agreement evacuation of Quebec by Morocco, and the Treaty of Caicos the year prior, but just like the various treaties that ended World War I were long ago lumped into common imagination as being the Treaty of Versailles, so too did the Treaty of Chicago become the only real arrangement that brought peace. So what happened? The American Federation surrendered and made a number of oddly minor border concessions. The Confederate States took Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia, the former two of which had been the heartland of American fascism and did not take their new masters in Miami lightly. Deseret was restored Hawaii and received some more of the Great Plains. Alaska received some small areas around the edges of Minnesota, which may considered an unworthy gain, considering how Alaskan arms had helped end the war by pushing all the way to the Atlantic. It seemed that Quebec was probably the big victor of the postwar settlement, taking New England, the Maritimes, and what parts of Ontario she had not annexed in the 1990s. And yet, the internal changes in the American Federation were perhaps more interesting than the shifting map. A caretaker government handpicked by NADTA was placed in charge of the country, and President Rice was put on trial in a New York court for treason and murder, though a legal resolution for the fallen leader was not expected to come for years. Meanwhile, the American Federation joined NADTA, and the American Federation generals who had surrendered the nation were spared the need to explain themselves. The economic boom that the nation entered as soon as reached an agreement with its neighbors cured most angers, and it didn’t hurt that NADTA had liberated the AF from a tyrannical ruler who everyone knew had caused the war by inventing a terrorist attack that killed her own people. Also, the fact that the American Federation survived the war retaining almost all of its core territories made many happy, although there was some shouting that it wasn’t fair that liberal New England had gone to authoritarian Quebec.
(+2 American ASP, American approval increase, +1 Quebecois ASP, Quebecois approval increase)
The Confederate States underwent somewhat of a domestic somersault as their nation’s financial situation suffered from ‘The Brazil Fallacy.’ Simply put, trying to find money to expand the economy by taxing the economy into the ground was not the most effective strategy. Also, the unresolved issue of a minefield around Miami didn’t help with the prosperity problem. In other, stranger news, rumors began to emerge that the Confederate President Xavier Suarez was beginning to express an interest in the study of psionics.
As part of the close of the Great North American War, Venezuela and Deseret signed the Treaty of Mexico City, which involved both a non-aggression agreement and return to pre-war borders, though hostility still ran rampant on both sides. Deseret had a lot of land to demine.
After regaining central Mexico from Deseret occupation, the Venezuelans set about revitalizing the region. The Venezuelans also attempted to stimulate their new Caribbean holdings, but Hispaniola and Cuba were too damaged from war to flower after such a limited effort.
(+1 Venezuelan ASP)
In 2005, the Venezuelan government put a lot of emphasis on having fair elections, and was much praised by both internal pundits and the world free press. In a straightforward contest, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías’s United Socialist Party maintained power with around 56% of the vote.
(Venezuelan approval increase)
Amazonia’s long-awaited referendum on its national future came in early 2005. The options on the ballot included union with the Lima Republic, union with Brazil, independence, and union with Venezuela, though Democratic Front International governments were less than amused about how the last-mentioned option had gotten on the list. Perhaps more intimidating was which option the Amazonian people chose. Venezuela won at the ballot box. Amazonia became a part of Chavez’s nation. How was this possible? Few in Amazonia considered union with Brazil a viable option because of the war. Reunion with Lima had been considered a viable option until that nation entered the conflict with Argentina at the beginning of the year. Independence and abstention from the fighting meant isolation, and Amazonians had been so heartened by the Chindōgu Company’s interest in Manaus that they couldn’t stand to withdraw from world affairs. Amazonia was incorporated into Venezuela without a fuss, though the Amazonia hope for peace was dashed later in the year when Venezuela invaded Brazil from the north.
(-Amazonia, +1 Venezuelan ASP)
(See Military Events)
The Emperor of Morocco, Mohammed VI, declared Jihad against Iberia, and various families pushed their sons into the army to support the war effort.
(+10 Moroccan conscript divisions)
(See Military Events)
Morocco began a media campaign aimed at defaming ASEAN’s reputation much as ASEAN had defamed FEAR. Pictures of horrible intake center conditions endured by the thousands of Chinese refugees were coupled with images of the devastated Chinese regions that ASEAN forces entered in 2002. Videos of bumbling ASEAN marines were shown next to tapes of crack Moroccan fighters, images of new schools and hospitals being built in FEAR-occupied China, and footage of the efficient refugee intake process in Tunisia. Cultural translation problems coupled with ‘consider the source’ issues stemming from Morocco’s new invasion somewhat dulled the impact of the materials, but many pundits seized upon the opportunity to decry that all conflicts were morally grey, even the one between the Eastern Coalition and the Democratic Front International.
Morocco also made some efforts to ‘out-tourism’ Poland. Though the nation’s new war easily canceled out any potential industry gains, one image of Comrade Putin and President Rice embracing outside a fountain in New Rabat did its part to spread some mirth.
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya started to integrate Egypt and their other newly conquered regions. Traffic across the Suez Canal began to pick up again.
(+1 Tunisian ASP)
Iberia began efforts to industrialize poorly developed areas. Perhaps the nation would have seen some rapid and tangible gains if it had been left alone to focus on domestic affairs.
(See Military Events)
The Earth Liberation Special Projects Group was founded in Rome by Liberation Party members who wanted to find some way to further the world communist cause even though their Central European Union had been partitioned. Organized somewhat along the lines of a corporation, the ELSPG found its startup assets through the donations of interested communists in Europe and beyond, but by the end of the year was in dire need of a sustainable economic model.
(+Earth Liberation Special Projects Group)
The People’s Republic of Europe modernized and expanded national highways, railroads, and airports.
The Constantinople Federation attempted to establish a new Warsaw Pact as a non-ideological alliance committed to resisting the Eastern Coalition, but this move faltered as few allies could be found. The Polish government put up various ambassadors in one of Warsaw’s famous hotels, but they themselves were generally apathetic to the whole idea, and the representatives from the Democratic Front International were only interested in getting Xanthou’s nation to join with their bloc. Even Nigeria stopped expressing interest, wholly preoccupied with events further south. However, while the Warsaw Conference was a failure, nations like the Mesopotamian Union and Tibet began to express interest in revisiting the idea, though they wanted to start with a fresh framework.
President Cronus Xanthou continued his reforms of the Constantinople Federation. Banks were nationalized. Discriminatory laws were passed against Bulgarians, Turks, and other weak ethnic groups, denying them access to influential professions in areas like higher education and the media, though the Greek president left the populous Ukrainians well enough alone in the north. Meanwhile, Xanthou’s Dark Eagle Party banned Islam within the borders of the Constantinople Federation and closed all mosques, an act which had few repercussions beyond contributing to the exodus of Muslims from the country. However, Xanthou’s increasing efforts to place the fifteen million or so Greeks of his nation at the head of a country of a hundred million began to stir up dissent even among the formerly restive northern ethnicities.
(Constantinople approval decrease)
The Constantinople Federation and the Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya engaged in a heated diplomatic scuffle that resulted in the expulsion of all Muslims from the former nation. Many Turks simply fled across the border into the Mesopotamian Union, but millions of Muslims and others pretending to be Muslims headed into the welcoming arms of the TAJ, which had set up an extensive system to provide the housing, jobs, and other necessities that their new citizens would need. Back in the Constantinople Federation, President Xanthou seized all assets of the ‘Islamic terrorist’ refugees and redistributed a portion of that wealth to the few thousand Greeks who left the TAJ to return to their ancestral homeland. This population exchange occurred with a minimum of violence, largely credited to Qaddafi’s enlightened policies, which both encouraged immigration to the TAJ and provided for peaceful emigration.
The Treaty of Damascus gave pause to one of the world’s great conflict zones. In accordance with its provisions, the Mesopotamian Union officially ceded Egypt and the Arab Triangle to the victorious Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya, and also allowed the Syrian rebels to create their own nation. The Mesopotamian Union was required to sign a Non Aggression Pact with the Tunisians and withdraw from the Democratic Front International, but given the complete dearth of DFI support during the Egyptian Socialist War, many politicians in the Union were quite gleeful to be rid of their worthless international allegiance. Meanwhile, Syria joined the Eastern Coalition and fell under the influence of Tunisia in particular.
(+Syrian Arab Socialist Republic)
Even though the new Middle Eastern order didn’t see any territorial gains for the Arabian Umma, the nation did quite well for itself. The Arabians opened up extensive trade with Syria, established an incentive program to encourage immigration from the Mesopotamian Union, and continued to develop their sizable trade fleet. Additionally, the clerics set quotas in place to improve agricultural productivity. These quotas were quite lax but carried the penalty of government nationalization for farms that couldn’t pick up, and this distant whip at the back of the farmers remarkably improved productivity.
(+1 Arabian ASP)
The young Central Asian Republic joined both Dar al-Islam and the Eastern Coalition.
Pakistan’s administration sent a large sum to Morocco as a ‘gift’ for the latter government’s ‘good work in North America.’ This raised a few heads and encouraged traditional Persian screaming about their distant government’s ineptitude and waste, but the incident might have been a good thing because it made the leaders in Karachi realize they were generally disliked within the borders of their own country.
In a year that generally saw the world stratified between two poles, the Indian Republic went its own way, concluding a treaty with FEAR that divvied up the last of the fallen People’s Republic of China’s old territories and then promptly cutting all ties with both the Eastern Coalition and the Comintern. In the parts of Tibet allotted to India, the Mangalore government established an independent state under the Dali Lama, while to the south, administrators went about reintegrating the core Indian lands that had been lost once upon a time to the PRC. Isolationism met with hearty applause amongst the people.
(+Tibet, Indian approval increase)
As multitudes of Chinese left FEAR, First-Citizen Putin set up the Virgin Lands program, which turned all of FEAR’s China into a vast colonizable tract. Loyal Mongolians, Manchurians, Koreans, Uyghurs, Japanese, Tibetans, and Russians were rewarded with free estates on the lands that had been depopulated. The couple hundred Chinese which still remained in the area continued to be marginalized and occasionally massacred. Chinese history books were burnt, their cultural sites were destroyed, their language was illegalized, and their cities were renamed. Beijing became Putingrad as part of the greatest expansion of Russian influence since the end of World War Two.
At the beginning of the year, FEAR agreed to a deal which would allow safe passage to all the millions of Chinese who wanted to flee into ASEAN. The Kuala Lumpur government was both noble and foolish in taking the offer. ASEAN’s ships traveled up and down the coast of China in a seemingly endless cycle, and for every thousand Chinese that were successfully brought to South China, two thousand more Chinese seemed to appear on the docks, hungry and sick but ready to go. FEAR was unwilling to let the process take forever, and lent their own cargo ships to the effort. Even the combined potential of two merchant marines wasn’t fast enough for FEAR, so commanders opened up the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze at key points, and even went so far as to allow ASEAN to set up bussing services that traveled deep into FEAR’s territory. In three months, tens of millions of refugees had arrived at ASEAN intake centers. Some were infected with everything from smallpox to ebola, but those unfortunates were quarantined off. Most died quietly while ASEAN officials forgot about them, overwhelmed by the flow of relatively healthy Chinese who needed to be housed, fed, and put to work.
Refugee camps were set up across the state of South China, supported in large part by the donations of concerned citizens from across the free world and aid groups like the Red Cross and Red Crescent. The Han of South China more than pulled their weight, with many serving as camp volunteer staff and giving everything to their destitute brethren that they could possibly do without. ASEAN made all refugee contributions tax deductible, but there was truly no way to measure just how much the South Chinese had given. Without their help, the whole operation would have disintegrated into chaos and anarchy in a matter of days.
Still, blindly accepting desperate Chinese was not the entirety of ASEAN’s plan. With government encouragement, Chindōgu and other companies began to set up endless factories in ASEAN, giving the immigrants something to do and almost stimulating the economy of the region. Wages, of course, were extremely low, but everyone from the ASEAN program administrators down to humblest Chinese refugee was so happy to see honest available jobs that almost no one complained. The ASEAN government also did its share in this regard, and a substantial number of the most fit immigrants were enlisted in the army and tasked to defend the Shanghai Line, which was completed early in the year as an opposite number to the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze.
(+20 ASEAN conscript divisions)
ASEAN had more ready-made propaganda in terms of personal testimonies and physical appearances than they knew what to do with, and by the end of the year parents across the globe were encouraging their children not to use the Internet because of the sheer likelihood of stumbling across advertisements that showed mangled bodies and described FEAR as evil. ASEAN particularly targeted Islamic countries in the 2005 stage of their campaign, and all the descriptions of FEAR as atheist put some worries in the minds the of clerical elite. Unfortunately, another played-up angle that FEAR was massacring Chinese Muslims fell somewhat flat, as Muslims groups in China like the Uyghurs were well known to be gleeful supporters of the Vladivostok regime’s new order.
Around late March, ASEAN investigators discovered that a small number of Chinese refugees were actually FEAR infiltrators, but before any real outcry could come on the diplomatic front, war began.
(See Military Events)
Peaceful Events
Perhaps the most important scientific event of 2005 was the union of NADTA and the Democratic Front International into a single technology alliance, but such did not come easy. The motion stalled in the bodies’ Joint Commission with but a single vote remaining to finalize the deal, and only ended up succeeding when several nations who had not been signatories to the agreement acted as if the agreement was actually in place. A few quick thinking diplomats decided they had enough precedent to print some documents that made de facto into de jure, and that was that. Unfortunately, legal summersaults were not enough to prevent the NADTA-DFI alliance from colliding into the Eastern Coalition and beginning a conflict that some considered World War III.
(See Military Events)
The Eastern Coalition also had a bookkeeping issue that stemmed from the way their technology fund was run. It was a joint partnership between the Comintern and Dar al-Islam, and had nothing to do with the EC on paper, and so the Argentine Federation’s membership into that last body entitled it to absolutely no scientific benefits, a circumstance with was somewhat unfortunate due to the continuing fighting in South America.
(See Military Events)
Given the state of the world, the Federal Republic of Alaska had an oddly good year. The nation rejoined NADTA, troops returned home victorious from the Great North American War (even if many were quickly redeployed to conflict areas around the world), a small bit of land was annexed, and costal and island strongpoints were further strengthened. Perhaps most importantly, the nation held its first real election in many years, resulting in the ascension of the Alaska Democratic Party’s Mike Gavel to the presidency in the aftermath of a divided vote. Since Gavel won only 38% percent, he entered office dependent on coalition partners to keep him afloat, but the fact that the military stayed clear of the matter was seen even by his opponents to be a very good sign.
The Moroccan-led forces of Dar-al Islam swiftly left Quebec, and la belle Republique invested heavily in rebuilding from the air strike damage and compensating property holders. With the resurrection of key trade routes, the Quebecois economy began to pick up, but further recovery would require time, not money.
(+1 Quebecois ASP)
Cascadia had been allowed to join NADTA in 2004, but it was not until 2005 that the Treaty of Salt Lake sorted out official borders with the Theocratic Republic of Deseret. Led by Harold Sampton, (the Cougar of the Oregon Liberation Front stepped out of the shadows) Portland extended authority over Washington, Oregon, and Deseret’s areas of old British Colombia. Sampton did not wait long to begin development projects on his new nation, inaugurating a bridge across the Colombia River by the end of the year and furthering a program to teach guerrilla tactics to average citizens so that any future occupation would be more trouble than it was worth. In general, he was showered with praise. Cascadian nationalism was on the rise.
(Cascadian approval increase)
Cascadia made a deal with a company named Shin-Ra, catapulting the latter to the world stage. In short order, Shin-Ra took stewardship of the power and water grids of the nation, making them much more efficient and reaping a hefty profit in the process. While some Cascadians decried that the influence of such a powerful corporation on a new country could only lead to bad things, others argued that Shin-Ra was helping to begin a national economic boom.
(+Shin-Ra)
With the Treaty of Salt Lake securing the north, the Treaty of Mexico City securing the south, and the Treaty of Chicago restoring Hawaii and securing the east, Deseret’s government began financing the reconstruction of their war torn nation, with special emphasis paid to rebuilding Dallas and helping the farmers of the Great Plains. The country’s drafted soldiers were released with bonuses.
(+1 Deseret ASP, -10 Deseret conscript divisions)
The 2005 Treaty of Chicago put an end to the Great North American War. In truth, the fighting could not have come to an end without the parallel treaties of Salt Lake and Mexico City, the gentlemen’s agreement evacuation of Quebec by Morocco, and the Treaty of Caicos the year prior, but just like the various treaties that ended World War I were long ago lumped into common imagination as being the Treaty of Versailles, so too did the Treaty of Chicago become the only real arrangement that brought peace. So what happened? The American Federation surrendered and made a number of oddly minor border concessions. The Confederate States took Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia, the former two of which had been the heartland of American fascism and did not take their new masters in Miami lightly. Deseret was restored Hawaii and received some more of the Great Plains. Alaska received some small areas around the edges of Minnesota, which may considered an unworthy gain, considering how Alaskan arms had helped end the war by pushing all the way to the Atlantic. It seemed that Quebec was probably the big victor of the postwar settlement, taking New England, the Maritimes, and what parts of Ontario she had not annexed in the 1990s. And yet, the internal changes in the American Federation were perhaps more interesting than the shifting map. A caretaker government handpicked by NADTA was placed in charge of the country, and President Rice was put on trial in a New York court for treason and murder, though a legal resolution for the fallen leader was not expected to come for years. Meanwhile, the American Federation joined NADTA, and the American Federation generals who had surrendered the nation were spared the need to explain themselves. The economic boom that the nation entered as soon as reached an agreement with its neighbors cured most angers, and it didn’t hurt that NADTA had liberated the AF from a tyrannical ruler who everyone knew had caused the war by inventing a terrorist attack that killed her own people. Also, the fact that the American Federation survived the war retaining almost all of its core territories made many happy, although there was some shouting that it wasn’t fair that liberal New England had gone to authoritarian Quebec.
(+2 American ASP, American approval increase, +1 Quebecois ASP, Quebecois approval increase)
The Confederate States underwent somewhat of a domestic somersault as their nation’s financial situation suffered from ‘The Brazil Fallacy.’ Simply put, trying to find money to expand the economy by taxing the economy into the ground was not the most effective strategy. Also, the unresolved issue of a minefield around Miami didn’t help with the prosperity problem. In other, stranger news, rumors began to emerge that the Confederate President Xavier Suarez was beginning to express an interest in the study of psionics.
As part of the close of the Great North American War, Venezuela and Deseret signed the Treaty of Mexico City, which involved both a non-aggression agreement and return to pre-war borders, though hostility still ran rampant on both sides. Deseret had a lot of land to demine.
After regaining central Mexico from Deseret occupation, the Venezuelans set about revitalizing the region. The Venezuelans also attempted to stimulate their new Caribbean holdings, but Hispaniola and Cuba were too damaged from war to flower after such a limited effort.
(+1 Venezuelan ASP)
In 2005, the Venezuelan government put a lot of emphasis on having fair elections, and was much praised by both internal pundits and the world free press. In a straightforward contest, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías’s United Socialist Party maintained power with around 56% of the vote.
(Venezuelan approval increase)
Amazonia’s long-awaited referendum on its national future came in early 2005. The options on the ballot included union with the Lima Republic, union with Brazil, independence, and union with Venezuela, though Democratic Front International governments were less than amused about how the last-mentioned option had gotten on the list. Perhaps more intimidating was which option the Amazonian people chose. Venezuela won at the ballot box. Amazonia became a part of Chavez’s nation. How was this possible? Few in Amazonia considered union with Brazil a viable option because of the war. Reunion with Lima had been considered a viable option until that nation entered the conflict with Argentina at the beginning of the year. Independence and abstention from the fighting meant isolation, and Amazonians had been so heartened by the Chindōgu Company’s interest in Manaus that they couldn’t stand to withdraw from world affairs. Amazonia was incorporated into Venezuela without a fuss, though the Amazonia hope for peace was dashed later in the year when Venezuela invaded Brazil from the north.
(-Amazonia, +1 Venezuelan ASP)
(See Military Events)
The Emperor of Morocco, Mohammed VI, declared Jihad against Iberia, and various families pushed their sons into the army to support the war effort.
(+10 Moroccan conscript divisions)
(See Military Events)
Morocco began a media campaign aimed at defaming ASEAN’s reputation much as ASEAN had defamed FEAR. Pictures of horrible intake center conditions endured by the thousands of Chinese refugees were coupled with images of the devastated Chinese regions that ASEAN forces entered in 2002. Videos of bumbling ASEAN marines were shown next to tapes of crack Moroccan fighters, images of new schools and hospitals being built in FEAR-occupied China, and footage of the efficient refugee intake process in Tunisia. Cultural translation problems coupled with ‘consider the source’ issues stemming from Morocco’s new invasion somewhat dulled the impact of the materials, but many pundits seized upon the opportunity to decry that all conflicts were morally grey, even the one between the Eastern Coalition and the Democratic Front International.
Morocco also made some efforts to ‘out-tourism’ Poland. Though the nation’s new war easily canceled out any potential industry gains, one image of Comrade Putin and President Rice embracing outside a fountain in New Rabat did its part to spread some mirth.
The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya started to integrate Egypt and their other newly conquered regions. Traffic across the Suez Canal began to pick up again.
(+1 Tunisian ASP)
Iberia began efforts to industrialize poorly developed areas. Perhaps the nation would have seen some rapid and tangible gains if it had been left alone to focus on domestic affairs.
(See Military Events)
The Earth Liberation Special Projects Group was founded in Rome by Liberation Party members who wanted to find some way to further the world communist cause even though their Central European Union had been partitioned. Organized somewhat along the lines of a corporation, the ELSPG found its startup assets through the donations of interested communists in Europe and beyond, but by the end of the year was in dire need of a sustainable economic model.
(+Earth Liberation Special Projects Group)
The People’s Republic of Europe modernized and expanded national highways, railroads, and airports.
The Constantinople Federation attempted to establish a new Warsaw Pact as a non-ideological alliance committed to resisting the Eastern Coalition, but this move faltered as few allies could be found. The Polish government put up various ambassadors in one of Warsaw’s famous hotels, but they themselves were generally apathetic to the whole idea, and the representatives from the Democratic Front International were only interested in getting Xanthou’s nation to join with their bloc. Even Nigeria stopped expressing interest, wholly preoccupied with events further south. However, while the Warsaw Conference was a failure, nations like the Mesopotamian Union and Tibet began to express interest in revisiting the idea, though they wanted to start with a fresh framework.
President Cronus Xanthou continued his reforms of the Constantinople Federation. Banks were nationalized. Discriminatory laws were passed against Bulgarians, Turks, and other weak ethnic groups, denying them access to influential professions in areas like higher education and the media, though the Greek president left the populous Ukrainians well enough alone in the north. Meanwhile, Xanthou’s Dark Eagle Party banned Islam within the borders of the Constantinople Federation and closed all mosques, an act which had few repercussions beyond contributing to the exodus of Muslims from the country. However, Xanthou’s increasing efforts to place the fifteen million or so Greeks of his nation at the head of a country of a hundred million began to stir up dissent even among the formerly restive northern ethnicities.
(Constantinople approval decrease)
The Constantinople Federation and the Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya engaged in a heated diplomatic scuffle that resulted in the expulsion of all Muslims from the former nation. Many Turks simply fled across the border into the Mesopotamian Union, but millions of Muslims and others pretending to be Muslims headed into the welcoming arms of the TAJ, which had set up an extensive system to provide the housing, jobs, and other necessities that their new citizens would need. Back in the Constantinople Federation, President Xanthou seized all assets of the ‘Islamic terrorist’ refugees and redistributed a portion of that wealth to the few thousand Greeks who left the TAJ to return to their ancestral homeland. This population exchange occurred with a minimum of violence, largely credited to Qaddafi’s enlightened policies, which both encouraged immigration to the TAJ and provided for peaceful emigration.
The Treaty of Damascus gave pause to one of the world’s great conflict zones. In accordance with its provisions, the Mesopotamian Union officially ceded Egypt and the Arab Triangle to the victorious Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya, and also allowed the Syrian rebels to create their own nation. The Mesopotamian Union was required to sign a Non Aggression Pact with the Tunisians and withdraw from the Democratic Front International, but given the complete dearth of DFI support during the Egyptian Socialist War, many politicians in the Union were quite gleeful to be rid of their worthless international allegiance. Meanwhile, Syria joined the Eastern Coalition and fell under the influence of Tunisia in particular.
(+Syrian Arab Socialist Republic)
Even though the new Middle Eastern order didn’t see any territorial gains for the Arabian Umma, the nation did quite well for itself. The Arabians opened up extensive trade with Syria, established an incentive program to encourage immigration from the Mesopotamian Union, and continued to develop their sizable trade fleet. Additionally, the clerics set quotas in place to improve agricultural productivity. These quotas were quite lax but carried the penalty of government nationalization for farms that couldn’t pick up, and this distant whip at the back of the farmers remarkably improved productivity.
(+1 Arabian ASP)
The young Central Asian Republic joined both Dar al-Islam and the Eastern Coalition.
Pakistan’s administration sent a large sum to Morocco as a ‘gift’ for the latter government’s ‘good work in North America.’ This raised a few heads and encouraged traditional Persian screaming about their distant government’s ineptitude and waste, but the incident might have been a good thing because it made the leaders in Karachi realize they were generally disliked within the borders of their own country.
In a year that generally saw the world stratified between two poles, the Indian Republic went its own way, concluding a treaty with FEAR that divvied up the last of the fallen People’s Republic of China’s old territories and then promptly cutting all ties with both the Eastern Coalition and the Comintern. In the parts of Tibet allotted to India, the Mangalore government established an independent state under the Dali Lama, while to the south, administrators went about reintegrating the core Indian lands that had been lost once upon a time to the PRC. Isolationism met with hearty applause amongst the people.
(+Tibet, Indian approval increase)
As multitudes of Chinese left FEAR, First-Citizen Putin set up the Virgin Lands program, which turned all of FEAR’s China into a vast colonizable tract. Loyal Mongolians, Manchurians, Koreans, Uyghurs, Japanese, Tibetans, and Russians were rewarded with free estates on the lands that had been depopulated. The couple hundred Chinese which still remained in the area continued to be marginalized and occasionally massacred. Chinese history books were burnt, their cultural sites were destroyed, their language was illegalized, and their cities were renamed. Beijing became Putingrad as part of the greatest expansion of Russian influence since the end of World War Two.
At the beginning of the year, FEAR agreed to a deal which would allow safe passage to all the millions of Chinese who wanted to flee into ASEAN. The Kuala Lumpur government was both noble and foolish in taking the offer. ASEAN’s ships traveled up and down the coast of China in a seemingly endless cycle, and for every thousand Chinese that were successfully brought to South China, two thousand more Chinese seemed to appear on the docks, hungry and sick but ready to go. FEAR was unwilling to let the process take forever, and lent their own cargo ships to the effort. Even the combined potential of two merchant marines wasn’t fast enough for FEAR, so commanders opened up the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze at key points, and even went so far as to allow ASEAN to set up bussing services that traveled deep into FEAR’s territory. In three months, tens of millions of refugees had arrived at ASEAN intake centers. Some were infected with everything from smallpox to ebola, but those unfortunates were quarantined off. Most died quietly while ASEAN officials forgot about them, overwhelmed by the flow of relatively healthy Chinese who needed to be housed, fed, and put to work.
Refugee camps were set up across the state of South China, supported in large part by the donations of concerned citizens from across the free world and aid groups like the Red Cross and Red Crescent. The Han of South China more than pulled their weight, with many serving as camp volunteer staff and giving everything to their destitute brethren that they could possibly do without. ASEAN made all refugee contributions tax deductible, but there was truly no way to measure just how much the South Chinese had given. Without their help, the whole operation would have disintegrated into chaos and anarchy in a matter of days.
Still, blindly accepting desperate Chinese was not the entirety of ASEAN’s plan. With government encouragement, Chindōgu and other companies began to set up endless factories in ASEAN, giving the immigrants something to do and almost stimulating the economy of the region. Wages, of course, were extremely low, but everyone from the ASEAN program administrators down to humblest Chinese refugee was so happy to see honest available jobs that almost no one complained. The ASEAN government also did its share in this regard, and a substantial number of the most fit immigrants were enlisted in the army and tasked to defend the Shanghai Line, which was completed early in the year as an opposite number to the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze.
(+20 ASEAN conscript divisions)
ASEAN had more ready-made propaganda in terms of personal testimonies and physical appearances than they knew what to do with, and by the end of the year parents across the globe were encouraging their children not to use the Internet because of the sheer likelihood of stumbling across advertisements that showed mangled bodies and described FEAR as evil. ASEAN particularly targeted Islamic countries in the 2005 stage of their campaign, and all the descriptions of FEAR as atheist put some worries in the minds the of clerical elite. Unfortunately, another played-up angle that FEAR was massacring Chinese Muslims fell somewhat flat, as Muslims groups in China like the Uyghurs were well known to be gleeful supporters of the Vladivostok regime’s new order.
Around late March, ASEAN investigators discovered that a small number of Chinese refugees were actually FEAR infiltrators, but before any real outcry could come on the diplomatic front, war began.
(See Military Events)
Military Events
Deserets General Smith organized much of his nations army into fortified positions along the Venezuelan border, doubtless ordered by Salt Lake to prevent any future invasion by Chavez.
The conflict between Venezuela and Deseret had seen both sides play on Mexican patriotism as part of their plans to demonize the opposition, but despite the return to status quo antebellum, the fervor needed a venting point. A shadowy group styling itself the Mexico International Liberation Front began carrying out bombings against government targets in the Mexican areas of both Venezuela and the Theocratic State of Deseret. Some days after a devastating attack on a post office in Mexico City, a man named Danny Trejo became associated with the movement, and barricades were set up in his name along the northern edge of Baja California. However, Trejos anarchic Mexican nation appeared before Deserets forces had the time to truly reoccupy the region in the wake of Venezuelan withdrawal. Now that Salt Lake was clear to bring the full force of its magnificently led armies to bear, Danny Trejos days as a leader seemed to be numbered.
The ex-exile rebels on Cuba, poorly provisioned and fully abandoned by the Confederate States, defended as best they could as Venezuelan forces began to sweep the island, but after being crushed in battle, they surrendered quickly. President Chavez rewarded this behavior by dumping the lot of them in chains along the Florida coast. It wasnt the most noble end to an aborted salvation of their homeland, but at least they were alive.
(-1 Venezuelan division)
And so we reach the rest of the world. In 2005, almost all South American and Eastern Hemisphere conflicts could be directly tied to World War III fought between the Eastern Coalition and the DFI-NADTA.
Some called the South American struggle the War of the Development Fund before its place as part of the world battlefield became clear. Then the area was simply the South American Theatre, a zone where Brazil and the Lima Republic, allied with expeditionary forces from Deseret, Iberia and Scandinavia, clashed with the Argentineans in the south and the Venezuelans in the north. The year started as the Argentines renewed their offensive through an attempted encirclement of Rio de Janeiro, but the Brazilians managed to repulse the feared Cyborgs from their best-known city with the help of Major General Andrew Thomas newly arrived Deseret Marines. Further inland, the Argentineans had more success in smashing forward before DFI soldiers from abroad could reinforce the positions, but then Lima had entered the war, and the mechanical cult from Buenos Aires had to shift gears to protect Chile. For a brief time, it seemed as if Argentina had reached the apex of its conquests and was on its way down, but relief came when Venezuela invaded Brazil from the north. Suddenly assaulted on two different fronts, DFI-NADTA scrambled to find defensive lines, but by the time such a deed was accomplished, Venezuela had occupied vast portions of Brazil and the Argentines were on the offensive again.
(-4 Argentine divisions, -7 Argentine Cyborg divisions, -2 Argentine squadrons, -3 Argentine groups, -5 Lima divisions, -1 Lima group, -1 Brazilian ASP, -11 Brazilian divisions, -1 Brazilian group, -1 Scandinavian group, -1 Iberian division, -3 Deseret Marines divisions, -4 Venezuelan divisions, -2 Venezuelan groups)
As Morocco and its allies pulled back across the Atlantic after pillaging Quebec, their Grand Atlantic Fleet was accosted by the combined navies of Quebec, Great Britain, and South Africa in a variety of rough a tumble engagements. The lack of coordination between the DFI-NADTA countries was probably the only thing that kept the much smaller Dar al-Islam force from being wiped out. For the first time ever, the forces of the liberal countries were on the offensive against the Eastern Coalition, and their ships were more modern and twice as numerous as their enemies. The thousands of Dar al-Islam soldiers packed onto transports proved easy pickings for various submarines, including some that seemed to come from otherwise uninvolved Deseret, and the various capital ship battles were decided more often than not in favor of DFI-NADTA. Aided in no small part by air cover and the capable Moroccan Marines, Dar al-Islam forced a good fraction of its convoy to the safety of North African ports, but half of the Grand Fleet and half of the Quebec Expeditions Muslim soldiers found their resting place somewhere below the waves.
(-2 Moroccan divisions, -5 Moroccan Marines divisions, -8 Moroccan squadrons, -1 Arabian division, -2 Arabian squadrons, -3 Sudanese divisions, -1 Sudanese squadron, -3 Islamic Courts divisions, -1 Islamic Courts squadron, -2 Pakistani divisions, -1 Pakistani squadron, -1 Indonesian division, -2 Quebecois squadrons, -1 South African squadron, -2 British squadrons)
Throughout the year, vans packed with explosives regularly slammed into South African military bases, and amidst the carnage rumors started spreading that a faction of native communists refused to abide with the governments corruption and ineptitude any longer. Partially because the terrorist attacks made a point of never targeting civilians, public opinion began to fall against the government in Cape Town.
(South African approval decrease)
Perhaps ironically, South Africa picked this same year to finally flex diplomatic and military muscle. Allying with Nigeria-in-Angola, the Cape regime pushed by land into the area Morocco called Congo State, their primary resistance being hastily raised conscripts. The massive fortifications the Moroccans had constructed along the beaches served no purpose; there was no attack from the sea. Since Congo State was primarily Christian, it was easily overrun with the help of mass defections, but by the time the armies of the South African Union and the Congo reached the Moroccan Nigeria State, they were up against Muslim heartland. Jihad had been declared earlier in the year by the Moroccan Emperor Muhammad VI, and it seemed not to matter that he had declared it against Iberia and not the African Christians. The infidels were invading, and they would be resisted at all costs. Hundreds of thousands in West Africa eagerly took up the duty to fight for their nation, and while they sustained heavy casualties at the hands of the professional South African military, they managed to bog down the invaders somewhere around the vicinity of the Niger delta. The Christians had begun their war with ease, but they came to December drenched in their own blood.
(-1 Moroccan ASP, +25 Moroccan conscript divisions, -29 Moroccan conscript divisions, +5 South African conscript divisions, -2 South African divisions, -2 Nigerian divisions)
Iberia was well prepared for invasion. Indeed, even though it became eminently clear over the course of the year that three of Iberias neighbors had drawn up plans for its partition, it was Iberia who fired the first shot, launching air raids against military objectives in northern Morocco as soon as Madrid received word that DFI-NADTA had won a great victory in the Atlantic. The Eastern Coalition allies of Morocco, France and Tunisia immediately retaliated with heavy bombings of Iberia air bases, but by then it was too late. Despite being outnumbered, Iberian air groups successfully rebased to protected locations and began to drag out the fight for aerial dominance. With a considerable edge in technology and numbers, it seemed clear that the Eastern Coalition would win the skies eventually, but Iberia was still capable of flying sorties at the end of 2005. In any case, the first battles on land were waged in the heavily fortified Pyrenees, with Socialist French forces cutting their teeth and achieving no headway. In the west, a pair of planned Moroccan costal landings near Lisbon were called off because of New Rabats strained naval situation. Still, the Eastern Coalition was far from at a loss. The French successfully landed around the Basque regions, deploying their near-identical Genome Soldiers for the first time, though they had to fight to keep the naval supply lines open. Coming from the Mediterranean, things were far more satisfactory for the EC. The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya easily seized the Balearic Islands, and Moroccan Marines stormed Valencia, paving the way for thousands more of New Rabats soldiers to flood into what was once southern Spain. More French Genome Soldiers landed somewhat south of Barcelona and succeeded in taking the city in their march north, also capturing portions of the Pyrenees fortifications and allowing the French reserves a land route into the peninsula. The French then tried to close their pincer around Madrid, but the soldiers in the Basque Region simply did not have the momentum to fight their way far from the beaches, and the soldiers heading west from newly occupied Catalonia stalled out somewhere in the middle of the country. By the end of the year, half the country was in Eastern Coalition hands, but even VX, the French use of firebombing, and the fury of the Moroccan soldiers jihad could not subdue Lisbon or Madrid, and the French were stymied by a fount of Iberia resistance that continued around Aquitaine and the Pyrenees. The Iberian nation had suffered a great deal from the destructive onslaught of the Eastern Coalition, but it was unbroken.
(-1 Iberian ASP, -12 Iberian divisions, -7 Iberian squadrons, -10 Iberian groups, -2 Moroccan divisions, -3 Moroccan Marine divisions, -2 Moroccan groups, -1 French division, -2 French Genome Soldiers divisions, -4 French squadrons, -1 French group, -1 Tunisian group)
The fighting in Italy was somewhat less intense. The PRE branch of the Freedom Fighters of Italinia rose their heads in a very public fashion to do battle and revenge the Central European Union, but they suffered from the general rebel problem of being poorly equipped, and they were considerably outnumbered by forces of the Peoples Republic of Europe sent to take them down. Nevertheless, the FFI began their war on favorable terms by seizing Rome in a popular revolt, then dispatching their small army down the boot of Italy in an attempt to take Naples. It was at this point that the soldiers of the PRE arrived in mass to retake the land, and after a number of traditional pitched battles, the FFI was decimated and their leaders were arrested. By the end of the year, no areas in the Peoples Republic held open sympathy for the organization, and in France, the rebellion had never gotten off the ground. Some regional leaders had held meetings with French officials and then abruptly started advocating for full subservience to Paris. However, the FFIs brief moment of glory had the side effect of damaging the formation of the Earth Liberation Special Projects Group, which had to relocate for several months from Rome to Paris, and many communists in Berlin felt that the semiautonomous Liberation Party had been somewhat discredited by failing to restrain an uprising in their heartland. The ELSPG countered with limited proof that their party cadres in the cities of northern Italy had successfully restrained the industrial region from joining the cause of the FFI.
(-2 PRE divisions)
As it was dealing with the Freedom Fighters of Italinia, the PRE opened up a new World War III front and launched an attack on the Scandinavian Republic. The superior PRE air force raided Scandinavian cities as far north as Stockholm while their army easily conquered Saxony and Jutland. However, the sizable Scandinavian navy made the Baltic impenetrable by sea, and any PRE invasion of Scandinavias core would have to wait until Oslos fleet was cleared away. Efforts to hunt Scandinavias ships from the air were only partially successful, for Scandinavias outmatched air force still conducted a vigorous defense.
(-4 PRE groups, -2 Scandinavian divisions, -2 Scandinavian squadrons, -6 Scandinavian groups)
Poland assembled a huge army to crush the Italian Rebels, but in order to do this, the soldiers first needed to get past customs and into the Peoples Republic of Europe. Thus, a farcical scene developed on the Polish-PRE border. Having received quick instructions to not under any circumstances allow the hundred thousand Polish soldiers access into the country, the communist border guards eventually succeeded in convincing the entire force to turn around and go back home. Emergency defensive preparations in the PRE were put on hold.
The Constantinople Federation began work on a line of fortifications along its border with the Peoples Republic of Europe.
In the first year of World War III, the greatest theatre was Southeast Asia. FEAR, Pakistan, Arabia, and Indonesia clashed with ASEAN, its protectorates, and a large Alaskan Foreign Legion.
(See Spotlight)
(-2 Indonesian ASP, -11 Indonesian divisions, -4 Indonesian Peoples Crushers divisions, -7 Indonesian squadrons, -2 Indonesian groups, -1 Pakistani division, -4 Pakistani squadrons, -1 Arabian division, -5 Arabian squadrons, -5 FEAR divisions, -1 FEAR Clone Trooper division, -8 FEAR squadrons, -2 FEAR groups, -3 ASEAN ASP, -2 ASEAN Marine divisions, -11 ASEAN divisions, +10 ASEAN conscript divisions, -28 ASEAN conscript divisions, -10 ASEAN squadrons, -6 ASEAN groups, -3 Australian divisions, +5 Australian conscript divisions, -1 Australian conscript division, -1 Australian group, -2 New Zealander divisions, -2 New Zealander squadrons, -5 Alaskan divisions, -1 Alaskan squadron, -6 Alaskan groups)
Deserets General Smith organized much of his nations army into fortified positions along the Venezuelan border, doubtless ordered by Salt Lake to prevent any future invasion by Chavez.
The conflict between Venezuela and Deseret had seen both sides play on Mexican patriotism as part of their plans to demonize the opposition, but despite the return to status quo antebellum, the fervor needed a venting point. A shadowy group styling itself the Mexico International Liberation Front began carrying out bombings against government targets in the Mexican areas of both Venezuela and the Theocratic State of Deseret. Some days after a devastating attack on a post office in Mexico City, a man named Danny Trejo became associated with the movement, and barricades were set up in his name along the northern edge of Baja California. However, Trejos anarchic Mexican nation appeared before Deserets forces had the time to truly reoccupy the region in the wake of Venezuelan withdrawal. Now that Salt Lake was clear to bring the full force of its magnificently led armies to bear, Danny Trejos days as a leader seemed to be numbered.
The ex-exile rebels on Cuba, poorly provisioned and fully abandoned by the Confederate States, defended as best they could as Venezuelan forces began to sweep the island, but after being crushed in battle, they surrendered quickly. President Chavez rewarded this behavior by dumping the lot of them in chains along the Florida coast. It wasnt the most noble end to an aborted salvation of their homeland, but at least they were alive.
(-1 Venezuelan division)
And so we reach the rest of the world. In 2005, almost all South American and Eastern Hemisphere conflicts could be directly tied to World War III fought between the Eastern Coalition and the DFI-NADTA.
Some called the South American struggle the War of the Development Fund before its place as part of the world battlefield became clear. Then the area was simply the South American Theatre, a zone where Brazil and the Lima Republic, allied with expeditionary forces from Deseret, Iberia and Scandinavia, clashed with the Argentineans in the south and the Venezuelans in the north. The year started as the Argentines renewed their offensive through an attempted encirclement of Rio de Janeiro, but the Brazilians managed to repulse the feared Cyborgs from their best-known city with the help of Major General Andrew Thomas newly arrived Deseret Marines. Further inland, the Argentineans had more success in smashing forward before DFI soldiers from abroad could reinforce the positions, but then Lima had entered the war, and the mechanical cult from Buenos Aires had to shift gears to protect Chile. For a brief time, it seemed as if Argentina had reached the apex of its conquests and was on its way down, but relief came when Venezuela invaded Brazil from the north. Suddenly assaulted on two different fronts, DFI-NADTA scrambled to find defensive lines, but by the time such a deed was accomplished, Venezuela had occupied vast portions of Brazil and the Argentines were on the offensive again.
(-4 Argentine divisions, -7 Argentine Cyborg divisions, -2 Argentine squadrons, -3 Argentine groups, -5 Lima divisions, -1 Lima group, -1 Brazilian ASP, -11 Brazilian divisions, -1 Brazilian group, -1 Scandinavian group, -1 Iberian division, -3 Deseret Marines divisions, -4 Venezuelan divisions, -2 Venezuelan groups)
As Morocco and its allies pulled back across the Atlantic after pillaging Quebec, their Grand Atlantic Fleet was accosted by the combined navies of Quebec, Great Britain, and South Africa in a variety of rough a tumble engagements. The lack of coordination between the DFI-NADTA countries was probably the only thing that kept the much smaller Dar al-Islam force from being wiped out. For the first time ever, the forces of the liberal countries were on the offensive against the Eastern Coalition, and their ships were more modern and twice as numerous as their enemies. The thousands of Dar al-Islam soldiers packed onto transports proved easy pickings for various submarines, including some that seemed to come from otherwise uninvolved Deseret, and the various capital ship battles were decided more often than not in favor of DFI-NADTA. Aided in no small part by air cover and the capable Moroccan Marines, Dar al-Islam forced a good fraction of its convoy to the safety of North African ports, but half of the Grand Fleet and half of the Quebec Expeditions Muslim soldiers found their resting place somewhere below the waves.
(-2 Moroccan divisions, -5 Moroccan Marines divisions, -8 Moroccan squadrons, -1 Arabian division, -2 Arabian squadrons, -3 Sudanese divisions, -1 Sudanese squadron, -3 Islamic Courts divisions, -1 Islamic Courts squadron, -2 Pakistani divisions, -1 Pakistani squadron, -1 Indonesian division, -2 Quebecois squadrons, -1 South African squadron, -2 British squadrons)
Throughout the year, vans packed with explosives regularly slammed into South African military bases, and amidst the carnage rumors started spreading that a faction of native communists refused to abide with the governments corruption and ineptitude any longer. Partially because the terrorist attacks made a point of never targeting civilians, public opinion began to fall against the government in Cape Town.
(South African approval decrease)
Perhaps ironically, South Africa picked this same year to finally flex diplomatic and military muscle. Allying with Nigeria-in-Angola, the Cape regime pushed by land into the area Morocco called Congo State, their primary resistance being hastily raised conscripts. The massive fortifications the Moroccans had constructed along the beaches served no purpose; there was no attack from the sea. Since Congo State was primarily Christian, it was easily overrun with the help of mass defections, but by the time the armies of the South African Union and the Congo reached the Moroccan Nigeria State, they were up against Muslim heartland. Jihad had been declared earlier in the year by the Moroccan Emperor Muhammad VI, and it seemed not to matter that he had declared it against Iberia and not the African Christians. The infidels were invading, and they would be resisted at all costs. Hundreds of thousands in West Africa eagerly took up the duty to fight for their nation, and while they sustained heavy casualties at the hands of the professional South African military, they managed to bog down the invaders somewhere around the vicinity of the Niger delta. The Christians had begun their war with ease, but they came to December drenched in their own blood.
(-1 Moroccan ASP, +25 Moroccan conscript divisions, -29 Moroccan conscript divisions, +5 South African conscript divisions, -2 South African divisions, -2 Nigerian divisions)
Iberia was well prepared for invasion. Indeed, even though it became eminently clear over the course of the year that three of Iberias neighbors had drawn up plans for its partition, it was Iberia who fired the first shot, launching air raids against military objectives in northern Morocco as soon as Madrid received word that DFI-NADTA had won a great victory in the Atlantic. The Eastern Coalition allies of Morocco, France and Tunisia immediately retaliated with heavy bombings of Iberia air bases, but by then it was too late. Despite being outnumbered, Iberian air groups successfully rebased to protected locations and began to drag out the fight for aerial dominance. With a considerable edge in technology and numbers, it seemed clear that the Eastern Coalition would win the skies eventually, but Iberia was still capable of flying sorties at the end of 2005. In any case, the first battles on land were waged in the heavily fortified Pyrenees, with Socialist French forces cutting their teeth and achieving no headway. In the west, a pair of planned Moroccan costal landings near Lisbon were called off because of New Rabats strained naval situation. Still, the Eastern Coalition was far from at a loss. The French successfully landed around the Basque regions, deploying their near-identical Genome Soldiers for the first time, though they had to fight to keep the naval supply lines open. Coming from the Mediterranean, things were far more satisfactory for the EC. The Tunisian Arab Jamahiriya easily seized the Balearic Islands, and Moroccan Marines stormed Valencia, paving the way for thousands more of New Rabats soldiers to flood into what was once southern Spain. More French Genome Soldiers landed somewhat south of Barcelona and succeeded in taking the city in their march north, also capturing portions of the Pyrenees fortifications and allowing the French reserves a land route into the peninsula. The French then tried to close their pincer around Madrid, but the soldiers in the Basque Region simply did not have the momentum to fight their way far from the beaches, and the soldiers heading west from newly occupied Catalonia stalled out somewhere in the middle of the country. By the end of the year, half the country was in Eastern Coalition hands, but even VX, the French use of firebombing, and the fury of the Moroccan soldiers jihad could not subdue Lisbon or Madrid, and the French were stymied by a fount of Iberia resistance that continued around Aquitaine and the Pyrenees. The Iberian nation had suffered a great deal from the destructive onslaught of the Eastern Coalition, but it was unbroken.
(-1 Iberian ASP, -12 Iberian divisions, -7 Iberian squadrons, -10 Iberian groups, -2 Moroccan divisions, -3 Moroccan Marine divisions, -2 Moroccan groups, -1 French division, -2 French Genome Soldiers divisions, -4 French squadrons, -1 French group, -1 Tunisian group)
The fighting in Italy was somewhat less intense. The PRE branch of the Freedom Fighters of Italinia rose their heads in a very public fashion to do battle and revenge the Central European Union, but they suffered from the general rebel problem of being poorly equipped, and they were considerably outnumbered by forces of the Peoples Republic of Europe sent to take them down. Nevertheless, the FFI began their war on favorable terms by seizing Rome in a popular revolt, then dispatching their small army down the boot of Italy in an attempt to take Naples. It was at this point that the soldiers of the PRE arrived in mass to retake the land, and after a number of traditional pitched battles, the FFI was decimated and their leaders were arrested. By the end of the year, no areas in the Peoples Republic held open sympathy for the organization, and in France, the rebellion had never gotten off the ground. Some regional leaders had held meetings with French officials and then abruptly started advocating for full subservience to Paris. However, the FFIs brief moment of glory had the side effect of damaging the formation of the Earth Liberation Special Projects Group, which had to relocate for several months from Rome to Paris, and many communists in Berlin felt that the semiautonomous Liberation Party had been somewhat discredited by failing to restrain an uprising in their heartland. The ELSPG countered with limited proof that their party cadres in the cities of northern Italy had successfully restrained the industrial region from joining the cause of the FFI.
(-2 PRE divisions)
As it was dealing with the Freedom Fighters of Italinia, the PRE opened up a new World War III front and launched an attack on the Scandinavian Republic. The superior PRE air force raided Scandinavian cities as far north as Stockholm while their army easily conquered Saxony and Jutland. However, the sizable Scandinavian navy made the Baltic impenetrable by sea, and any PRE invasion of Scandinavias core would have to wait until Oslos fleet was cleared away. Efforts to hunt Scandinavias ships from the air were only partially successful, for Scandinavias outmatched air force still conducted a vigorous defense.
(-4 PRE groups, -2 Scandinavian divisions, -2 Scandinavian squadrons, -6 Scandinavian groups)
Poland assembled a huge army to crush the Italian Rebels, but in order to do this, the soldiers first needed to get past customs and into the Peoples Republic of Europe. Thus, a farcical scene developed on the Polish-PRE border. Having received quick instructions to not under any circumstances allow the hundred thousand Polish soldiers access into the country, the communist border guards eventually succeeded in convincing the entire force to turn around and go back home. Emergency defensive preparations in the PRE were put on hold.
The Constantinople Federation began work on a line of fortifications along its border with the Peoples Republic of Europe.
In the first year of World War III, the greatest theatre was Southeast Asia. FEAR, Pakistan, Arabia, and Indonesia clashed with ASEAN, its protectorates, and a large Alaskan Foreign Legion.
(See Spotlight)
(-2 Indonesian ASP, -11 Indonesian divisions, -4 Indonesian Peoples Crushers divisions, -7 Indonesian squadrons, -2 Indonesian groups, -1 Pakistani division, -4 Pakistani squadrons, -1 Arabian division, -5 Arabian squadrons, -5 FEAR divisions, -1 FEAR Clone Trooper division, -8 FEAR squadrons, -2 FEAR groups, -3 ASEAN ASP, -2 ASEAN Marine divisions, -11 ASEAN divisions, +10 ASEAN conscript divisions, -28 ASEAN conscript divisions, -10 ASEAN squadrons, -6 ASEAN groups, -3 Australian divisions, +5 Australian conscript divisions, -1 Australian conscript division, -1 Australian group, -2 New Zealander divisions, -2 New Zealander squadrons, -5 Alaskan divisions, -1 Alaskan squadron, -6 Alaskan groups)
Story Events
Be afraid when leaders of Quebec fall asleep.
(+5 Quebecois Warfighters divisions)
Deseret has many proud soldiers.
(+5 Deseret Marines divisions)
The South African Republic Knows Things.
(+1 South African Aeronautics investment point)
The Cascadian people look forward to economic prosperity.
(Cascadian approval increase)
FEAR kills Santa Claus.
(+1 FEAR Genetics investment point)
The Confederacy delves into the deepest reaches of the mind.
(+1 Confederate Theoretical investment point)
The Stylish One is the supreme master of Tunisia, and his influence is felt across the Mediterranean.
(+5 Tunisian squadrons)
Warsaw has some nice hotels.
(Polish approval increase)
France takes to the skies.
(+1 French Aeronautics investment point)
The Dark Eagle Party grows in power by the day.
(+5 Constantinople groups)
Administrators in the Empire of Morocco know much about vexillology.
(+5 Moroccan squadrons)
The Arabian Umma has a sizable army.
(+5 Arabian divisions)
Venezuela has political parties that can be easily researched on the World Wide Web.
(Venezuelan approval increase)
Many more Chinese refugees were fit and willing to join the military than ASEAN had anticipated.
(+10 ASEAN conscript divisions)
Spotlight
When we left the kingdom of the demons, we knew in the darkest bowels of our hearts that they would follow.
-Unknown Chinese Refugee
Ever since ASEAN and FEARs simultaneous invasion of the Peoples Republic of China, tensions of war between the two great powers of East Asia had run rampant. In 2001 Shanghai, FEAR bombers had targeted troops inside the city long after they were sure the Chinese there had surrendered. After the PRC was divided, FEAR poisoned the Mekong River and built the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze on its riverine border with ASEAN. General Adanans nation, for its part, blasted propaganda throughout the world that FEAR and First-Citizen Putin were monstrous entities that aimed to kill the free world. There was no love lost between the onetime enemies of an enemy. And so, no one was surprised when the Great East Asian War against China was put to shame by the sheer scope of the Southeast Asian Theatre of World War III.
The conflict began, ironically enough, with a sudden landing of ASEAN marines at Surabaya on the island of Java. No longer was FEAR the master of surprise attacks. ASEAN was going straight for Indonesian heartland in an attempt to defeat FEARs strongest ally. As their naval squadrons launched heavy bombardments from the coast, ASEANs finest soldiers pushed across the northern coast of the island, wiping out the limited homeland garrison and pressing propaganda that the decadent Emperor at Perth had abandoned the true Indonesian heartland of Java in exchange for the luxuries of a foreign land. The limited contingent of marines was completely incapable of pursuing partisans into the mountains, but they did do massive damage to Indonesias coherence. For the time being, ASEANs rapid assault and impressive stream of propaganda had secured most of Java. Still, many of the occupying soldiers wondered how long it would be before the people of the worlds most populous island threw them out by sheer weight of numbers.
As Java was falling, ASEAN organized a motorized Tri-Nation Army in the Republic of Australia, filled with both regulars and recruits eager to reunite that nation. Riding tanks, jeeps, and trucks, the ASEAN, Australian, and New Zealander force began to power through the Outback and into Indonesias continental holdings. Here they encountered a large Indonesian army that was attempting to do approximately the opposite thing and largely annihilated it before the Indonesians could bring their superior airpower to bear. As the Tri-Nation Army rapidly advanced to the cheers and support of the liberated civilian population, the continental Indonesians realized they didnt have the manpower to keep up with the Tri-Nations on the ground and instead resorted to heavily bombing the advancing soldiers as they withdrew the Emperor Suharto Ismail I and his court to parts unknown. By the end of the year, all Indonesian forces on the continent of Australia and withdrawn or been wiped out, but the success had come at a heavy cost.
While all this was happening, ASEAN also launched an invasion of Indonesian Borneo, and the bulk of the Indonesian and Tri-Nation navies were meeting for an almost evenly matched fight in the Java Sea. Kuala Lumpur had obviously been hoping for a victory that would leave every remaining Indonesian island an open target for their forces, but as the Indonesians stubbornly fought several battles to a standstill, General Adanans priorities changed. The continental Eastern Coalition countries had not stood idly by while his soldiers dismantled Suharto Ismail Is empire. Borneo was quickly conquered by a large army from Malaysia, yet the evacuation of Indonesian forces from that island was to be ASEANs last victory of the year as a conquering power. FEAR, Pakistan, and the Arabian Umma had arrived late for the party, but arrived they had.
Truth be told, General Adanan, President of ASEAN, should have known a storm was coming when terrorists struck at in late January at the Kra Isthmus Canal and the Adanan Tunnel connecting Sumatra with Malaya. The former attack failed after a shootout between police and masked gunmen, but the latter attack succeeded in a spectacular explosion that ruined the tunnel beyond any hope of quick repair. Devices of the same grade as the unexploded bombs recovered at the Kra Isthmus would never have caused such a blast, so it remained an open question as to what exactly had happened. Still, under interrogation it became clear that some of the captured perpetrators were Pakistani, and those men were convinced that their Islamic brethren would come to rescue them. Unfortunately, the whole matter was buried under press about stunning victories in Java and Australias Outback.
And so, when Pakistani and Arabian Umma forces came from the west and seized the Andaman and Nicobar Island chain it was a not entirely unexpected development. Still, with almost the entirety of ASEANs forces involved elsewhere, the Pakistanis quickly springboarded from their occupied islands to Aceh in Sumatra, bringing the fight to the almost undefended island and plowing through to the south, stirring up closet Islamic fundamentalists as they went. The Arabians had only a slightly tougher time of it, landing at the Kra Canal Zone and pushing towards ASEANs capital of Kuala Lumpur, which was defended by only police and thus doomed.
After the fall of the capital, an event that General Adanan barely escaped, the ASEAN 1st and 2nd Fleets managed to disengage from the Indonesians in the east and come to the rescue of Singapore, massacring the less numerous and less advanced Islamic fleets through sheer force of will. With Singapore preserved and the Indonesians nation alive but cowering, the traumatized ASEAN admirals went on a rampage, making regular nighttime assaults on the very docks of various occupied Sumatran and Malayan cities just to prove that they could. With little control over the water, the Arabian and Pakistani militaries found their supply stores near exhaustion by the end of the year. Further, while some in Sumatra had eagerly adapted to the new occupation leadership, the population of the occupied territories were by and large firmly loyal to ASEAN. There would be no swift victory for the Islamic forces in Southeast Asia.
And so was the ultimate blow left for FEAR, as Putin had expected. Indeed, his forces did not advance on ASEAN until late April, leaving plenty of time for all the other combatants to exhaust themselves. In the meantime, his forces prepared to strike, improving access south by constructing new roads through the desolate Virgin Lands that had once been the heart of China. When FEAR finally engaged, they did so ruthlessly, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas across the Yangtze, specifically targeting the Shanghai Financial District. Rocket attacks and bombing runs did their part to demolish much of the newly built Shanghai Line, and then FEAR ground forces poured through. The Alaskan Foreign Legion, some ASEAN regulars, and a horde of fanaticized Chinese refugee conscripts did their best to defend, but FEARs Grand Army of the Republic, filled with newborn Clone Troopers and advanced Hellfire Tanks, smashed down the Chinese coastline, occupying the Shanghai region and retaking Fuzhou with a fanfare of explosives. Enjoying an overwhelming airpower advantage, FEARs greatest deficit was its numbers of troops on the ground. ASEAN and Alaskan forces were retreating everywhere, but FEAR didnt have the numbers to crush every last pocket of resistance if she wanted to keep up the pressure on the retreating DFI-NADTA prime forces. By the end of the year, FEAR had punched far to the west, her napalm, VX, and chlorine killing millions more Chinese, but the nations vicious spider web-like assault had ground to a halt somewhere near the northern border of Vietnam, with many isolated ASEAN holdouts between the main front lines and the Yangtze River.
Too, FEAR had failed at one major objective. Putin had aimed to occupy Taiwan, but had misjudged the size and strength of the Taiwanese Fleet, especially mighty since it had been reinforced by Alaskans. FEARs entire navy was forced to slink home in defeat, thrown back by a single arm of ASEANs admiralty.
The peculiar thing about FEARs combat with ASEAN in 2005 was the distinct lack of decisive land battles. Under pressure from Putins undefeated Hellfire tanks, ASEANs generals kept conscripting new forces as they melted back, conserving as much strength as possible for the inevitable regrouping. General Adanan was determined not to go quietly into the night. FEAR might have conquered all of China, but ASEAN had brought Indonesia to its knees. Kuala Lumpur flew an Arabian flag, but ASEANs fleets were responsible for an unbroken series of victories. The Southeast Asian Theatre was not resolved.
And World War III was just beginning.
NPC Diplomacy
To: Empire of Morocco
From: Sudan, Islamic Courts Union
Emperor, lets band together and push the Crescent from New Rabat all the way to the Cape. The blasphemers will pay for their insults to Islam!
To: Comintern, Dar al-Islam
From: Syrian Arab Socialist Republic
We would like to become a member of the Comintern and an associate member of Dar al-Islam in the mold of our mentor Tunisia.
To: Constantinople Federation
From: Mesopotamian Union
We need allies, and we cant be particularly choosy in the current climate. If you agree to stop oppressing Turks quite so much, we would be willing to sign a technological and military agreement with you.
To: Constantinople Union, Indian Republic
From: Tibet
We believe our three nations should form a new alliance. We need to band together to convince FEAR to seek easier opponents.
Be afraid when leaders of Quebec fall asleep.
(+5 Quebecois Warfighters divisions)
Deseret has many proud soldiers.
(+5 Deseret Marines divisions)
The South African Republic Knows Things.
(+1 South African Aeronautics investment point)
The Cascadian people look forward to economic prosperity.
(Cascadian approval increase)
FEAR kills Santa Claus.
(+1 FEAR Genetics investment point)
The Confederacy delves into the deepest reaches of the mind.
(+1 Confederate Theoretical investment point)
The Stylish One is the supreme master of Tunisia, and his influence is felt across the Mediterranean.
(+5 Tunisian squadrons)
Warsaw has some nice hotels.
(Polish approval increase)
France takes to the skies.
(+1 French Aeronautics investment point)
The Dark Eagle Party grows in power by the day.
(+5 Constantinople groups)
Administrators in the Empire of Morocco know much about vexillology.
(+5 Moroccan squadrons)
The Arabian Umma has a sizable army.
(+5 Arabian divisions)
Venezuela has political parties that can be easily researched on the World Wide Web.
(Venezuelan approval increase)
Many more Chinese refugees were fit and willing to join the military than ASEAN had anticipated.
(+10 ASEAN conscript divisions)
Spotlight
When we left the kingdom of the demons, we knew in the darkest bowels of our hearts that they would follow.
-Unknown Chinese Refugee
Ever since ASEAN and FEARs simultaneous invasion of the Peoples Republic of China, tensions of war between the two great powers of East Asia had run rampant. In 2001 Shanghai, FEAR bombers had targeted troops inside the city long after they were sure the Chinese there had surrendered. After the PRC was divided, FEAR poisoned the Mekong River and built the Iron Curtain of the Yangtze on its riverine border with ASEAN. General Adanans nation, for its part, blasted propaganda throughout the world that FEAR and First-Citizen Putin were monstrous entities that aimed to kill the free world. There was no love lost between the onetime enemies of an enemy. And so, no one was surprised when the Great East Asian War against China was put to shame by the sheer scope of the Southeast Asian Theatre of World War III.
The conflict began, ironically enough, with a sudden landing of ASEAN marines at Surabaya on the island of Java. No longer was FEAR the master of surprise attacks. ASEAN was going straight for Indonesian heartland in an attempt to defeat FEARs strongest ally. As their naval squadrons launched heavy bombardments from the coast, ASEANs finest soldiers pushed across the northern coast of the island, wiping out the limited homeland garrison and pressing propaganda that the decadent Emperor at Perth had abandoned the true Indonesian heartland of Java in exchange for the luxuries of a foreign land. The limited contingent of marines was completely incapable of pursuing partisans into the mountains, but they did do massive damage to Indonesias coherence. For the time being, ASEANs rapid assault and impressive stream of propaganda had secured most of Java. Still, many of the occupying soldiers wondered how long it would be before the people of the worlds most populous island threw them out by sheer weight of numbers.
As Java was falling, ASEAN organized a motorized Tri-Nation Army in the Republic of Australia, filled with both regulars and recruits eager to reunite that nation. Riding tanks, jeeps, and trucks, the ASEAN, Australian, and New Zealander force began to power through the Outback and into Indonesias continental holdings. Here they encountered a large Indonesian army that was attempting to do approximately the opposite thing and largely annihilated it before the Indonesians could bring their superior airpower to bear. As the Tri-Nation Army rapidly advanced to the cheers and support of the liberated civilian population, the continental Indonesians realized they didnt have the manpower to keep up with the Tri-Nations on the ground and instead resorted to heavily bombing the advancing soldiers as they withdrew the Emperor Suharto Ismail I and his court to parts unknown. By the end of the year, all Indonesian forces on the continent of Australia and withdrawn or been wiped out, but the success had come at a heavy cost.
While all this was happening, ASEAN also launched an invasion of Indonesian Borneo, and the bulk of the Indonesian and Tri-Nation navies were meeting for an almost evenly matched fight in the Java Sea. Kuala Lumpur had obviously been hoping for a victory that would leave every remaining Indonesian island an open target for their forces, but as the Indonesians stubbornly fought several battles to a standstill, General Adanans priorities changed. The continental Eastern Coalition countries had not stood idly by while his soldiers dismantled Suharto Ismail Is empire. Borneo was quickly conquered by a large army from Malaysia, yet the evacuation of Indonesian forces from that island was to be ASEANs last victory of the year as a conquering power. FEAR, Pakistan, and the Arabian Umma had arrived late for the party, but arrived they had.
Truth be told, General Adanan, President of ASEAN, should have known a storm was coming when terrorists struck at in late January at the Kra Isthmus Canal and the Adanan Tunnel connecting Sumatra with Malaya. The former attack failed after a shootout between police and masked gunmen, but the latter attack succeeded in a spectacular explosion that ruined the tunnel beyond any hope of quick repair. Devices of the same grade as the unexploded bombs recovered at the Kra Isthmus would never have caused such a blast, so it remained an open question as to what exactly had happened. Still, under interrogation it became clear that some of the captured perpetrators were Pakistani, and those men were convinced that their Islamic brethren would come to rescue them. Unfortunately, the whole matter was buried under press about stunning victories in Java and Australias Outback.
And so, when Pakistani and Arabian Umma forces came from the west and seized the Andaman and Nicobar Island chain it was a not entirely unexpected development. Still, with almost the entirety of ASEANs forces involved elsewhere, the Pakistanis quickly springboarded from their occupied islands to Aceh in Sumatra, bringing the fight to the almost undefended island and plowing through to the south, stirring up closet Islamic fundamentalists as they went. The Arabians had only a slightly tougher time of it, landing at the Kra Canal Zone and pushing towards ASEANs capital of Kuala Lumpur, which was defended by only police and thus doomed.
After the fall of the capital, an event that General Adanan barely escaped, the ASEAN 1st and 2nd Fleets managed to disengage from the Indonesians in the east and come to the rescue of Singapore, massacring the less numerous and less advanced Islamic fleets through sheer force of will. With Singapore preserved and the Indonesians nation alive but cowering, the traumatized ASEAN admirals went on a rampage, making regular nighttime assaults on the very docks of various occupied Sumatran and Malayan cities just to prove that they could. With little control over the water, the Arabian and Pakistani militaries found their supply stores near exhaustion by the end of the year. Further, while some in Sumatra had eagerly adapted to the new occupation leadership, the population of the occupied territories were by and large firmly loyal to ASEAN. There would be no swift victory for the Islamic forces in Southeast Asia.
And so was the ultimate blow left for FEAR, as Putin had expected. Indeed, his forces did not advance on ASEAN until late April, leaving plenty of time for all the other combatants to exhaust themselves. In the meantime, his forces prepared to strike, improving access south by constructing new roads through the desolate Virgin Lands that had once been the heart of China. When FEAR finally engaged, they did so ruthlessly, lobbing artillery shells filled with poison gas across the Yangtze, specifically targeting the Shanghai Financial District. Rocket attacks and bombing runs did their part to demolish much of the newly built Shanghai Line, and then FEAR ground forces poured through. The Alaskan Foreign Legion, some ASEAN regulars, and a horde of fanaticized Chinese refugee conscripts did their best to defend, but FEARs Grand Army of the Republic, filled with newborn Clone Troopers and advanced Hellfire Tanks, smashed down the Chinese coastline, occupying the Shanghai region and retaking Fuzhou with a fanfare of explosives. Enjoying an overwhelming airpower advantage, FEARs greatest deficit was its numbers of troops on the ground. ASEAN and Alaskan forces were retreating everywhere, but FEAR didnt have the numbers to crush every last pocket of resistance if she wanted to keep up the pressure on the retreating DFI-NADTA prime forces. By the end of the year, FEAR had punched far to the west, her napalm, VX, and chlorine killing millions more Chinese, but the nations vicious spider web-like assault had ground to a halt somewhere near the northern border of Vietnam, with many isolated ASEAN holdouts between the main front lines and the Yangtze River.
Too, FEAR had failed at one major objective. Putin had aimed to occupy Taiwan, but had misjudged the size and strength of the Taiwanese Fleet, especially mighty since it had been reinforced by Alaskans. FEARs entire navy was forced to slink home in defeat, thrown back by a single arm of ASEANs admiralty.
The peculiar thing about FEARs combat with ASEAN in 2005 was the distinct lack of decisive land battles. Under pressure from Putins undefeated Hellfire tanks, ASEANs generals kept conscripting new forces as they melted back, conserving as much strength as possible for the inevitable regrouping. General Adanan was determined not to go quietly into the night. FEAR might have conquered all of China, but ASEAN had brought Indonesia to its knees. Kuala Lumpur flew an Arabian flag, but ASEANs fleets were responsible for an unbroken series of victories. The Southeast Asian Theatre was not resolved.
And World War III was just beginning.
NPC Diplomacy
To: Empire of Morocco
From: Sudan, Islamic Courts Union
Emperor, lets band together and push the Crescent from New Rabat all the way to the Cape. The blasphemers will pay for their insults to Islam!
To: Comintern, Dar al-Islam
From: Syrian Arab Socialist Republic
We would like to become a member of the Comintern and an associate member of Dar al-Islam in the mold of our mentor Tunisia.
To: Constantinople Federation
From: Mesopotamian Union
We need allies, and we cant be particularly choosy in the current climate. If you agree to stop oppressing Turks quite so much, we would be willing to sign a technological and military agreement with you.
To: Constantinople Union, Indian Republic
From: Tibet
We believe our three nations should form a new alliance. We need to band together to convince FEAR to seek easier opponents.
Notes
TaylorFlame and Nuke are dropped for not sending orders. The Russian Federation would be an interesting country to take at this point. The peace and military stuff was just a tad too long to fit in one post. I'm sure there are other important things to say, but I can't think of any.
EDIT: Map up.
EDIT2: Stats up.
TaylorFlame and Nuke are dropped for not sending orders. The Russian Federation would be an interesting country to take at this point. The peace and military stuff was just a tad too long to fit in one post. I'm sure there are other important things to say, but I can't think of any.
EDIT: Map up.
EDIT2: Stats up.
TheLizardKing
Let's talk Michelle.
To: Empire of Morocco
From: Sudan, Islamic Courts Union
I agree. We shall crush these pathetic South Africans quickly. Do you wish for me to lead your forces? If so, how many are you willing to dedicate?
To: TAJ
From: The Empire of Morocco
Any support you wish to send us, would be appreciated.
From: Sudan, Islamic Courts Union
I agree. We shall crush these pathetic South Africans quickly. Do you wish for me to lead your forces? If so, how many are you willing to dedicate?
To: TAJ
From: The Empire of Morocco
Any support you wish to send us, would be appreciated.
Terrance888
Discord Reigns
Darn you americans!
Arabia will cut off all oil supplies to the DFI and the NADA! Let their oil-powered machines stop as they use petty natural farts!
Arabia is willing to develpe more naval designs as is our specialty, esp large ships and submarine/destoryer groups.
I will send a new plan for you Imago! For the Coalition!
Arabia will cut off all oil supplies to the DFI and the NADA! Let their oil-powered machines stop as they use petty natural farts!
Arabia is willing to develpe more naval designs as is our specialty, esp large ships and submarine/destoryer groups.
I will send a new plan for you Imago! For the Coalition!
Captain2
ಠ_ృ
To: The World, South African citizenry
From: African Liberation Army
The time has come for a change in government for South Africa, the government has proven itself incapable of governing by its utter indifference towards its people and its growing greed. The Government has done nothing but cater to the will of foreigners and those who wish to trade the lives of our soldiers for profit and capitalist greed.
The Government offers nothing but a modern day aristocracy, Rich old men supporting one another as they climb the ladder to their own success while fully preparing to kick it down once it is time for the average citizen to climb. Support us and you will have a solid staircase of stone leading to success that no man can prevent you from climbing, We will have a meritocracy where there is no limit to how far you may choose to climb.
They offer you dust and ashes, we offer you a rising pheonix
From: African Liberation Army
The time has come for a change in government for South Africa, the government has proven itself incapable of governing by its utter indifference towards its people and its growing greed. The Government has done nothing but cater to the will of foreigners and those who wish to trade the lives of our soldiers for profit and capitalist greed.
The Government offers nothing but a modern day aristocracy, Rich old men supporting one another as they climb the ladder to their own success while fully preparing to kick it down once it is time for the average citizen to climb. Support us and you will have a solid staircase of stone leading to success that no man can prevent you from climbing, We will have a meritocracy where there is no limit to how far you may choose to climb.
They offer you dust and ashes, we offer you a rising pheonix
Crezth
i knew you were a real man of the left
To: Venezuela
From: Argentina
We are happy to see you have joined the war with us against the foolish Brazilians. May we both enjoy great success in the years to come!
From: Argentina
We are happy to see you have joined the war with us against the foolish Brazilians. May we both enjoy great success in the years to come!
conehead234
Braves on the Warpath
to: Scandinavian Republic
from: PRE
Surrender your mainland holdings and we can have peace.
from: PRE
Surrender your mainland holdings and we can have peace.
