Guide to Layartebian Stories

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Guide to Layartebian Stories

The following thread will contain a summary of stories that have been writing or are being written. They will include Earth II (v.3), Earth II (v.4), Earth II (v.5), non-Earth II, A Modern World, Neu Anterra, and Rostil stories. For further detail on each one, please see the listing below in Active and Inactive stories. The Killswitch Engage series is an old series dating back to the days of the Jolt forums. They were meant to be one-off stories independent of others but still within my nation canon.

[Table of Contents]

• Earth II (v.5)
  
  • Huitzilopochtli's Revenge [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Crescent Wars [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Dunes of Yesterday [A C T I V E]
  • The Filipino-Layartebian War: Falling Skies [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Filipino-Layartebian War: And Hell Followed... [I N A C T I V E]
• Earth II (v.3) & Earth II (v.4)
  
  • Ad luna et retro [I N A C T I V E]
  • Ajax Rising [I N A C T I V E]
  • And the Moon Governs the Night [I N A C T I V E]
  • In the Eyes of Heaven [I N A C T I V E]
  • Jump in the Fire [I N A C T I V E]
  • O Brave New World [I N A C T I V E]
  • Ride the Lightning [I N A C T I V E]
  • Sins of a Lunar Empire [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Erebus Initiative [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Halo Effect [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Lies We Feed Our Young [I N A C T I V E]
  • The Quiet War [I N A C T I V E]
  • To Fall From Olympus [I N A C T I V E]
• Killswitch Engage
  
  • Part I: The Storm [I N A C T I V E]
  • Part II: Suppression [I N A C T I V E]
• A Modern World
  
  • En Dieu, la liberté [I N A C T I V E]
• Neu Anterra
  
  • Operation Zaporizhian Fire [I N A C T I V E]
  • When Angels Cry [I N A C T I V E]
• Rostil
  
  • Ghosts in the Fog [I N A C T I V E]
  • Ghosts in the Fog: Redux [I N A C T I V E]

[Status Legend]

• Open: Open to all canon players without restriction
• Semi-Open: Open to all canon players with slight restriction; TG me for details
• Semi-Closed: Open to all canon players with heavy restriction to the storyline; TG me for details
• Closed: Generally not open to anyone but TG me if you have a role you believe would work

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ACTIVE THREADS

The Dunes of Yesterday

• Status: Active, Progressing
• Canon: Earth II (v.5)
• Participation Rules: Open
• Timeline: 1980s - 1990s
• Location: Africa, North Africa, Egypt | Eurasia, Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus | Eurasia, Eastern Mediterranean, Gaza
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Claim, History, Story, War
• Summary: The reconsolidation of The Crescent Wars with Itailian Maifias. The RP tells the collective stories of how Layarteb came to conquer Cyprus, the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai as well as how Egypt was claimed by the Empire of Britannia and its role in the Layartebian conquests in theater.

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INACTIVE THREADS

Ad luna et retro

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Open
• Timeline: 2014 - Present
• Location: North America, United States; Moon
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Story
• Summary: Ad luna et retro is the story of the Layartebian Space Agency's return to the moon onboard Orion 10. The story will include additional events surrounding Orion 9 and Skylab 10, missions being conducted around the same time as Orion 10. Tune in for mankind's first return trip to the moon since the 1970s.

Ajax Rising

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, TG me for details
• Timeline: Present
• Location: Global
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Story
• Summary: The rising of Ajax.

And the Moon Governs the Night

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open
• Timeline: 2014 - Present
• Location: Western Hemisphere, North America, Eastern United States
• Content Factor: Mature
• Classification Tags: Character, Story
• Summary: Within Layartebian society exist families so old and ancient than their wealth, influence, and power is immeasurable by any system of mathematics known to humankind. However, like all families, they have secrets and when hundreds of years have passed, those secrets can become as black as night and as dark as the soul of any demon.

Huitzilopochtli's Revenge

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.5)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open
• Timeline: 2018 - Present
• Location: Western Hemisphere, North America & Western Hemisphere, South America
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Claim, NPC, Story
• Summary: The People's Republic of Fortaleza serves as a thorn in the side of the Empire of Layarteb chiefly because of its communist ideology. In reality, there is much more about the PRF than its communist ideology and that includes a direct link to Mexico's supercartel, Los Soldados de Puebla.

In the Eyes of Heaven

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4) (open to Non-Earth II (v.4) members)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, See OOC thread
• Timeline: 2009 - Present
• Location: Africa, Ethiopia
• Content Factor: Mature
• Classification Tags: Character, War
• Summary: Ethiopia has descended into a chaotic mess of a state. Mercenaries compete with rebels and government forces for who can be the most horrific to the innocent. Corporations ravage the country for its resources. The entire world turns a blind eye to the hell that occurs there.

Jump in the Fire

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Open but requires packet: Required History & Post Template
• Timeline: June 2012 - Present
• Location: Africa, Eritrea
• Content Factor: Mature
• Classification Tags: Story, War
• Summary: The Republic of Eritrea experiences a military coup and further destabilizes an already unstable region. The political and economic consequences rapidly spiral beyond control and threaten the world's largest economic power and the world's largest military power leading to an apocalyptic "Clash of the Titans" and real world Ragnarök.

O Brave New World

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Closed
• Timeline: 2010 - 2049
• Location: South America, Brazil, Rondônia
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Character, Claim, History, War
• Summary: O Brave New World picks up where The Lies We Feed Our Young ends. It details the Empire's conquest of Rondônia and the subsequent implications of this annexation upon the region, particularly the troublesome state of Mato Grosso.

Ride the Lightning

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Non-Earth II (v.3)
• Participation Rules: Closed
• Timeline: 1976 - 2009
• Location: Various
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, War
• Summary: Ride the Lightning was a Jolt-era thread that was meant to detail a revolution within the Empire of Layarteb. It tells history of some of the major characters of my stories and tells the history of the Empire. The goal was to show how much work it takes to foster a revolution and the time and conditions required, rather than the obsession on NS that revolutions literally break out overnight. It was abandoned in favor of an entirely new storyline for the Empire and the loss of many of its participants from NS.

Sins of a Lunar Empire

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.3)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, TG me for details
• Timeline:
  
  • Part I: 2010
  • Part II: 1992 - 1998
• Location:
  
  • Part I: Asia, Turkey, Adana
  • Part II: Europe, Russia, Kaliningrad
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, War
• Summary: In Part I, the Empire invades Adana after its independence conflicts with Layartebian policies and military action is taken against the Empire's base at Incirlik. In Part II, the story goes back in history to the Kaliningradian War, a horrific war waged by the Empire against the Republic of Kaliningrad during the height of the Conquests.

The Crescent Wars

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.5)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open
• Timeline: 1945 - Present
• Location: Africa, North Africa, Sinai | Eurasia, Near East, Cyprus & Gaza
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Claim, NPC, Story
• Summary: In the early 1990s, the Empire of Layarteb was drawn into a series of conflicts in the Eastern Mediterranean. Collectively known as The Crescent Wars by historians and academics, the conflicts developed their own inertia in Layartebian foreign policy. Set in motion by the purchase of the Suez Canal by global conglomerate Manchurian Global, Layartebian interests in the Eastern Mediterranean suddenly came to the forefront of the Empire's foreign policy. Though the Empire had been largely seeking to establish some presence in the Eastern Mediterranean, the designs of this presence had been envisioned only as an air base and a naval base on the island of Cyprus, which was achieved prior to the Suez purchase when the Empire inserted itself as "peacekeeper" in the Cypriot Civil War. The purchase changed the entire dynamic of the Eastern Mediterranean and for better or for worse, the unintended consequences of that very purchase reshaped Layartebian foreign policy.

The Erebus Initiative

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, TG me for details
• Timeline: 2012 - Present
• Location: Various
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, War
• Summary: The Empire resumes a long dead scientific and biological experimentation program in hopes of developing a new super weapon in the fight against the enemies of the Empire. The thread travels to various locations around the world throughout its time, each one having a specific purpose in the EREBUS INITIATIVE.

The Filipino-Layartebian War: Falling Skies

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.5)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, TG me for details
• Timeline: 2019
• Location: The Philippines
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Claim, Story
• Summary: This is the first part of a larger series of threads known as the The Filipino-Layartebian War, a 21st century conflict between the Empire of Layarteb and the Socialist Republic of the Philippines. It begins with the accidental downing of a Layartebian civilian jetliner over Filipino territory and the subsequent events that rile the Filipino nation and escalate tensions between both nations.

The Filipino-Layartebian War: And Hell Followed...

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.5)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open
• Timeline: 2020
• Location: The Philippines
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Story
• Summary: This is the second part of a larger series of threads known as the The Filipino-Layartebian War, a 21st century conflict between the Empire of Layarteb and the Socialist Republic of the Philippines. This chapter concerns the kidnapping of a Layartebian diplomat and the subsequent events that rile the Filipino nation and escalate tensions between both nations.

The Halo Effect

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.3)
• Participation Rules: Closed
• Timeline: 1995 - 1999
• Location: South America, Colombia
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Character, Claim, War
• Summary: The Halo Effect was meant to detail the Empire's controversial and violent annexation of Colombia and the subsequent destruction of Colombia's powerful and highly capable drug cartels in the Empire's broader War on Drugs. It's goal was to follow a single black operations team put together to fight against these cartels.

The Lies We Feed Our Young

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Closed
• Timeline: 2010
• Location: South America, Brazil, Rondônia
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: War
• Summary: The Emperor makes a visit to the crime-ridden, drug-infested city of Porto Velho in Rondônia to make a speech announcing Layartebian cooperation in Rondônia's fight against these subversive elements. Upon his exit, the Emperor's helicopter is shot down and he is taken prisoner in a city that has erupted into a massive street war. Layartebian forces push into the city to secure the Emperor while keeping the information from the press.

The Quiet War

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: 2014 - Present
• Location: Africa, North Africa, Cyrenaica & Libya
• Content Factor: May contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, War
• Summary: The Quiet War details the efforts by the Empire of Layarteb against the Al-Shams, an international, Islamic, terrorist organization that calls the Cyrenaican Desert its home where it plots global jihad against the infidels of the West, especially the pagan Empire of Layarteb.

To Fall From Olympus

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Closed, TG me for details
• Timeline: 1958 - 2004
• Location: Europe, Aegean Sea
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: Story, War
• Summary: Layartebian and other multinational forces conduct anti-communist operations on the islands of Lemnos and Agios Efstratios in the late-1950s in a proxy war between the Republic of Lemnos, multination forces, and the Soviet Union.

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

Part I: The Storm

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Earth II (v.3)
• Participation Rules: Closed
• Timeline: January 1990
• Location: North Atlantic Ocean, off New Jersey
• Content Factor: Mature
• Classification Tags: History, Story
• Summary: A freighter bound for Newark sinks mysteriously during one of the worst blizzard nor'easters on record.

Part II: Suppression

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Earth II (v.4)
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open
• Timeline: March - May 1988
• Location: Venezuela
• Content Factor: Mature
• Classification Tags: Character, History, Story, War
• Summary: Rebels, led by former fighters from the Venezuelan Civil War, unleash an insurrection throughout Venezuela, thus sparking the First Venezuelan Insurrection.

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Rostil

Ghosts in the Fog: Redux

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Rostil
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: Undetermined
• Location: Rostil, Sotia, Tnemrot
• Content Factor: Will contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, Story
• Summary: The Forsaken Realm of Tnemrot is a miserable place to live. The country is analogous to many dystopian, totalitarian, fictional states whereby the state has complete and total dominance. The government controls every facet of life and punishments are harsh and severe. But what is life like inside of Tnemrot? Take a journey through Tnemrot as no one else can - literally because we control immigration so tightly - and learn about the inner workings of Tnemrot.

Ghosts in the Fog

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Rostil
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: Undetermined
• Location: Rostil, Tianxia, Tnemrot
• Content Factor: Will contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, Story
• Summary: The Forsaken Realm of Tnemrot is a miserable place to live. The country is analogous to the Democratic Republic of Korea. The government controls every facet of life and punishments are harsh and severe. But what is life like inside of Tnemrot? Take a journey through Tnemrot as no one else can - literally because we control immigration so tightly - and learn about the inner workings of Tnemrot.

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A Modern World

En Dieu, la liberté

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: A Modern World
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: Present Time
• Location: North America, Caribbean Sea, Cuba/Hispaniola/Jamaica
• Content Factor: Likely to contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: Character, History, Introduction, Story
• Summary: Welcome to the République de Saint-Laurent, a conservative democracy in the Caribbean Sea. It is a nation with a rich and diverse past. The nation as it stands today is largely influenced by the French culture, after spats of Spanish and British influence. Take a journey through the inner and outer workings of the République de Saint-Laurent in an adventure that is sure to acquaint you with the country's dynamic existence.

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Neu Anterra

Operation Zaporizhian Fire

• Status: Abandoned
• Canon: Neu Anterra
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: January 1997
• Location: Poja & the United Provinces of Rovnoska and Zaporizhia (UPRZ)
• Content Factor: Non-Mature
• Classification Tags: History, Story, War
• Summary: Long since the thorn in one another's side, Poja and the UPRZ finally come to blows in the twilight of the Rovski-Zaporizhian Separation. The UPRZ, looking to punish and to strike back at Poja for supporting Rovski separatists launch punitive strikes on Pojan matériel supporting the separatists, leading to an 8-day conflict between both nations.

When Angels Cry

• Status: Completed
• Canon: Neu Anterra
• Participation Rules: Semi-Open, TG me for details
• Timeline: Past (1968 - 1974)
• Location: Chernarus, Poja
• Content Factor: Likely to contain mature themes
• Classification Tags: History, Introduction, Story, War
• Summary: The Pojan Emergency lasted from 1964 to 1974 and it included the 6-year Chernarussian War. After oil was discovered in Chernarus, the arrangement of the Confederacy of Poja came into question by the Chernarussians. Delve into Rugi's historical mission to save the integrity of the Confederacy.