<<Welcome, nations of Altereal, to my first war RP! As you can see by the title, this is the war between the United Front Confederation and the neighboring Mansuriyyah Islamic State.>>
The Story So Far: The UFC's eleven component factions all have stakes and territories within the UFC's borders. Leader of the UFC, Commander Scott Ibrahim rules his people evenly, and tries to offer fairness among the factions. However, some factions are not as ready to accept Ibrahim's rule as others are.
The territories some factions control have little natural resources or arable land to farm, leaving them dependent on their allied factions. In a mindset where each faction must be self-sustaining in case the UFC falls apart, this cannot be tolerated. Protests and riots are breaking out among the people due to this grievance; The fact that their home factions are unable to provide for their people. Commander Ibrahim knows his first choice of calling for support from foreign nations will only temporarily solve the problem. What the UFC needs is land, land with farming fields, with natural resources, possibly even access to the ocean, a luxury the UFC doesn't have.
To accomplish this goal, Ibrahim looks to the West, where the looming Islamic State leans on the UFC's borders. Scott must make the only decision he can: Unify and rally the people by declaring a state of aggression against the Islamic State with the goals of securing resources for the people. He begins to mobilize what forces he can, but will it be enough? Will the scrappy, under-equipped soldiers trained from years of infighting and guerilla warfare be enough to take on an established entity like the Islamic State? Only time will tell. Time, and the graciousness of a select few world superpowers...