In Macrobia, the only sounds that resonate loudly throughout the land are gunfire, explosions, vehicles running and men screaming.
19 August 1968 was the day that started it all. The Somaliland National Liberation Movement committed attacks on Pergamonic administrative institutions, and Markos Gounaropoulos, the Governor of Macrobia, ordered martial law on the regions affected. However, that never stopped the Movement from engaging in military confrontations against the Colonial Security Force, with growing widespread sympathy among the local population feeding their guerilla warfare machine, proving to be a massive thorn on the colonial forces. Determined to preserve the Pergamonic hold on the colony, Grand Prince Michael I Nicodemus and Prime Minister Charalambos Palloulis passed a law calling for an expeditionary force to pacify the Movement. Two ends hang in the balance a men on both sides fight with their blood soaked on the desert sands.
The Macrobian Colonial Security Force had their biggest relief in the form of the Pergamonic Macrobian Expeditionary Corps from the homeland. As if they were a repellant to a horde of mosquitos, the Corps helped to regain land from SONALMO, with their victories in Mogadishu in February 1970, Burao about two months later, and Beledweyne in Early June. While it proved a major morale boost for the Pergamonians, these victories did not come without diligent effort. SONALMO was still formidable rebel army with a fighting spirit, despite being underequipped and daunted. And with their current situation and with hopes of outside help, they are desperate to hold out for their leader and cause.
Minor skirmishes and raids still occur in various fronts in Macrobia, but huge operations have yet to occur from a period of relative rest. Generals Martakos and Argyroglou, primary commanders of the Pergamonic forces, are still planning to hinder SONALMO's vitality in one collective and decisive push to exploit their recent success. But God only knows if their plan will work as intended.