Paradise. White sand beaches, crystal-clear water, coconut groves swaying in the wind and an impressive coral reef, Terempang is the definition of bliss. Or was, rather. The island's status as a prosperous, mineral-rich tiny Southeast Asian island principality had been wiped out within the blink of an eye. Typhoon Florence made landfall in Terempang merely two days ago, yet the situation was chaotic. The slums of Kuala Putih, the island's capital, had nearly been completely wiped out while the body counts continued to rise on the tiny island of only around 6,000 people. Communication between the island's communities had been completely lost, and Kuala Putih was completely cut off from the largest city, Seladang.
Within a day, however, anarchy had completely taken over. Instead of distributing the plethora of aid supplies that had been stored and safekept in anticipation of the typhoon, many were outraged as soldiers from the 300-man Terempang Royal Army seized the goods for... 'royal use'. The Sultan's men- mostly foreign mercenaries- quickly came and seized anything of value from the local police and instead brought truckloads of supplies to what remained of the palace to ensure that the Sultan and his family would be kept safe and sound during the entire ordeal.
Of course for the people who now did not have a roof over their heads, this situation was... less than ideal. Riots and protests exploded onto the streets of Seladang and Kuala Putih, with residents extremely dissatisfied for the apparent lack of concern by the royal government. The Sultan's single-company strong private army quickly put down the protests from mostly poorer citizens who lost their homes during the typhoon and arrested many. In Seladang, the most populous city of the island, disaster was about to strike.
With nearly the entire military pulled to assist the royal family in Kuala Putih, Seladang was left to a twenty-man police force who too suffered from a lack of basic needs after the typhoon. When protestors marched upon the police station to call for Sultan Mahmud to distribute the supplies to those who needed them most, the twenty officers opened the armories while many deserted to the protestors. A platoon of loyalist officers from Kuala Putih was quickly dispatched to deal l with the situation, but after civilians were killed in a firefight, all hell broke loose.
While protestors- much of them armed- clashed with soldiers in Seladang, an influential religious leader of the Ismaili Muslim religious community, Imam Ridhawan Syah Alkadire, called for people to rise up against mistreatment by the government and launch a jihad against the constitutional monarchy that governed them. The Imam was in actual fact a cousin of the Sultan, sacked from his post as police commissioner for Seladang after his 'radical' Islamist views were criticized by the Sultan's court. The new Sultan was rather liberal for the Imam's tastes. With positive views on gay rights and having banned radical Islamist symbology and niqabs, the conservative clerics feared that their Islamic way of life had come under threat.
With roughly 472 protestors in Seladang and villages in the west of the country, loyalist forces were surrounded and lynched to death by the rioters inspired by the words of their Islamist leader. Now, 48-hours after the first outbreak of violence, Imam Ridhwan was declared the 'Emir of Terempang', and vowed to destroy the government of Sultan Mahmud, install Sharia Law and replace the current liberal constitutional monarchy with an extremist Islamic government. As many more conservative Muslims flocked to join the jihad against the western evils propagated by Sultan Mahmud, the royal government has issued a state of emergency and is desparately asking for assistance from the international community to restore law and order to Terempang...
Within a day, however, anarchy had completely taken over. Instead of distributing the plethora of aid supplies that had been stored and safekept in anticipation of the typhoon, many were outraged as soldiers from the 300-man Terempang Royal Army seized the goods for... 'royal use'. The Sultan's men- mostly foreign mercenaries- quickly came and seized anything of value from the local police and instead brought truckloads of supplies to what remained of the palace to ensure that the Sultan and his family would be kept safe and sound during the entire ordeal.
Of course for the people who now did not have a roof over their heads, this situation was... less than ideal. Riots and protests exploded onto the streets of Seladang and Kuala Putih, with residents extremely dissatisfied for the apparent lack of concern by the royal government. The Sultan's single-company strong private army quickly put down the protests from mostly poorer citizens who lost their homes during the typhoon and arrested many. In Seladang, the most populous city of the island, disaster was about to strike.
With nearly the entire military pulled to assist the royal family in Kuala Putih, Seladang was left to a twenty-man police force who too suffered from a lack of basic needs after the typhoon. When protestors marched upon the police station to call for Sultan Mahmud to distribute the supplies to those who needed them most, the twenty officers opened the armories while many deserted to the protestors. A platoon of loyalist officers from Kuala Putih was quickly dispatched to deal l with the situation, but after civilians were killed in a firefight, all hell broke loose.
While protestors- much of them armed- clashed with soldiers in Seladang, an influential religious leader of the Ismaili Muslim religious community, Imam Ridhawan Syah Alkadire, called for people to rise up against mistreatment by the government and launch a jihad against the constitutional monarchy that governed them. The Imam was in actual fact a cousin of the Sultan, sacked from his post as police commissioner for Seladang after his 'radical' Islamist views were criticized by the Sultan's court. The new Sultan was rather liberal for the Imam's tastes. With positive views on gay rights and having banned radical Islamist symbology and niqabs, the conservative clerics feared that their Islamic way of life had come under threat.
With roughly 472 protestors in Seladang and villages in the west of the country, loyalist forces were surrounded and lynched to death by the rioters inspired by the words of their Islamist leader. Now, 48-hours after the first outbreak of violence, Imam Ridhwan was declared the 'Emir of Terempang', and vowed to destroy the government of Sultan Mahmud, install Sharia Law and replace the current liberal constitutional monarchy with an extremist Islamic government. As many more conservative Muslims flocked to join the jihad against the western evils propagated by Sultan Mahmud, the royal government has issued a state of emergency and is desparately asking for assistance from the international community to restore law and order to Terempang...
Map of Terempang
Islamist territory is shown in red, with their capital, Seladang, marked with a star. Royalist territory is in blue, with their capital, Kuala Putih, marked with a star.
Rules
1. No godmodding, metagaming etc.
2. Be realistic in your responses, no non-humans
3. Please keep troop deployments under ~400 men. The island is tiny, and the conflict only involves around a thousand people in an island of around 5,000.
4. No unrealistic escalation of the conflict, please.
5. Please keep OOC discussion to this OOC thread and out of the IC.
6. I am OP, and my word is law.
7. Have fun ^^
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