"If I told you we weren't going home until we win, what would you do differently?" - General Stanley McChrystal
"Energetically will I meet the enemies of my country. I shall defeat them on the field of battle for I am better trained and will fight with all my might." - The Ranger Creed
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Welcome to Qiyadar. The Year is 2020.
Until three months ago, the Republic of Qiyadar was ruled with an iron-fist by the governing council of the Qiyadari Socialist Party, a secular, but totalitarian regime propped up economically by a strong relationship with Russia and apathetic Asian corporations. Nearly split fifty-fifty between Shiite and Sunni Islamic communities, the Qiyadari Socialist Party struggled to keep this country, a colonial creation of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, in line through an extreme blend of nationalistic fervor and fear. However, despite the best efforts of the Party, the technological changes of the 21st century proved to be too much. The country descended into revolution late last year following the death of a journalist, whose brutal detention and torture was caught on video, leaked to Twitter, and quickly went viral. Before the Party could use a long rumored nuclear weapons program to put down the rapidly growing rebellion, US-led Coalition forces seized the capital Gerrha in less than five days in a highly successful and nearly bloodless invasion.
Met initially by cheering crowds in the capital city of Gerrha, the mood has considerably worsened in Gerrha in the past few months as the new UN and Coalition-backed provisional government has struggled to restore the most basic services to this city of nearly eight million people. Trash collection, electricity, and water services have all but stopped in the city’s poorest Sunni neighborhoods. False allegations of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a Sunni family from their home by a reported group of Coalition troops and a Shiite gang has quickly spread amongst the Sunni population through social media, resulting in almost daily protests in the city’s predominantly Shiite neighborhoods and outside of the Coalition’s headquarters in Downtown Gerrha alongside of a rapidly escalating orgy of sectarian violence, topping off with last month’s deadly bombing of the world famous “Blue Mosque of Gerrha”, a site important to the Qiyadari Shiite community, by the Islamic State in Qiyadar.
Our mission, quite simply, is to FIND, FIX, and FINISH the enemy. In this RP, players will take charge of an elite team of Special Operations troops, corrupt local Qiyadari partner forces, or shady Intelligence operatives and analysts and work together to hunt down terrorists.
The Order of Battle, SOTF-ONG
A Squadron, Task Force Green - Organized States
Division for Indefinite Detention - Great Confederacy of Commonwealth States
ODA 3435, 3rd SFG (A) - Reverend Norv
Special Missions Force - Cylarn
Rules
1) Don't be a Dick. You're old enough to be on this site. Act like it.
2) This is a cooperative story, with limits. I am the OP and what I says go.
3) I reserve the right to appoint CO-OPs as necessary for the flow of this RP.
4) Realism will be at the heart of this RP.