The Republic of Bakovia
The Republic of Bokovia is a mostly insignificant nation, small in size while surrounded by competing and ever increasingly militaristic nations. Crammed between these ever-looming nations and their militaries, it had taken to a state of neutrality. Its sole goal to remain independent against the influence of the Way Sun Cooperation and its competitors. The Republic of Bakovia itself was insignificant with no value strategically, being made up of vast woodlands with an array of mountains towards its border with the Cooperation.
But even with its lack of strategic value its societal and propaganda value to the Cooperation was untapped. Originally one of the seventeen states which signed the Agreement of Cooperation which formed the Way Sun Cooperation, it had decided against joining it completely seeing it as a corrupt entity which would rip apart Bakovia for parts and money. This created a permanent rift between the nations and with the ever more militaristic regime of President Robert Dawson, an array of sanctions was established to block the fledging nation from gaining influence, naming it a terrorist state and a centre for the black-market.
With Bakovia joining the CSL, also known as the Collective Security League a bloc of Democratic nations the timer had begun ticking as options for the Way Sun Cooperation to reclaim its supposedly lost territory and to eradicate the Bakovia “Terrorist" state... This leave the regions in a precarious sate not seen since the collapse of Russia, with the evre increasing risk of a conflict dragging in the Mutual Cooperation Pact and Collective Security League into tension.
The Checkpoint, Bokovia M-2 Highway
Across the border between the Way Sun Cooperation and the Bakovia Republic, border posts where a common sight placed on every major and minor road between the two nations. Checkpoint M-2 was on the Way Sun Cooperation's main link into the Republic. The Bakovia side was a ran down checkpoint but was often seen as one of the best posts. There was little to no traffic. The Bakovian military only assigning a miniscule garrison of troops which inhabited worn down barracks building, with a set of concrete barricades and watch towers funnelling the non existent traffic into a bay for there documents to be checked and vehicles searched.
The stretch of road between the Checkpoint and the Cooperation's side was silent with only faint lights from the Cooperation's base reaching them. The road was worn, not from use but a lack of maintance. Both sides refused to send anyone into the no mans land and with no traffic from either side there was no point to. But this silence and the idea of it being the best post where soon a distant memory as tracer rounds streaked through the sky as an explosion could be seen from the other border post. Shouts soon filled the checkpoint as troops moved gathering medical equipment and weapons preparing to help there brothers. They may not be comrades in ideoldy or side but brothers in spirt.
Corporal had his rifle to his side as he moved across the road, flanked by soldiers carrying equipment, he looked towards the rising smoke, and looking up to the night sky seeing a small camera drone orbiting above them. It was to soon to be a news one and it could not be one from there side. This thought was broken as soldiers could be seen moving around the post. A second explosion soon reigned out, as if prepared the soldiers on the Cooperation side open fired, unphased by the explosion moving forward. Slowly ripping apart the Bakovian garrison. The corporal watched as his men where gunned down screaming a final order into the night. "OPEN FIRE" he screamed.
After three hours all of the Bakovian Garrison where dead with no news leaking of the attack, they had another hour before the base would fail to check in. Soldiers in the shady uniform of the Central Intelligence Directorate moved the dead. Dressing dead prisoners and casualties as Cooperate border guards preparing to release the daunting footage of a "Bakovian" attack. Editing the footage they had captured, they would remove all doubt that they had been the victims, after all they had footage of the orders being given, the mortar strike and the bodies...
Belokov Incident, Major Bakovian City
The city of Belokov was famous for its cultural value to the people of Bakovia and of the Cooperation. The city modern inner districts acted as the centre for Bakovias financial sector, a small van parked nearby the Bakovian Stock exchange, just five hundred metres form Belokovs main metro hub. The streets where filled with office workers moving swiftly between buildings holding there morning coffees. Moving towards there offices, the odd stock broker rushing to the exchange before it opens. The two men in the van wore working cloths, simple contractors workers to anyone who glanced in there direction. One glanced back, he knew if they where successful no one would ever know there names and if they failed.... that did not bare thinking about.
A series of canisters where set up in the back, each contained a blend of chemicals designed for the utmost effect on top of that of the explosives. The men left the van, they walked swiftly towards the crowds disappearing into the mass of people becoming simply one face in thousands. After fifteen minute, a loud bang ripped through the street, shrapnel ripped through the crowds as the stock exchanges windows where shattered. Within a minute the dust had settled but the chemical agent had been tossed into the sky spreading throughout the streets coating everything carried by the large amounts of dust. It would take a couple of hours before the first people would feel the effects. But the blast itself had caused significant chaos....
The men sat in a hotel room having changed into casual clothes, watching the news reports. He opened his phone before sending a simple message. Stage two complete, prep ready for stage three.. He quickly removed the phone battery and sim card snapping and disposing both of them. He had done his job, now his clients would handle the rest...
Responsibility, Somewhere in Bakovia
The room was worn with a simple whitewash of paint which had been worn down over years. A flag was hung in the background, but instead of the proud flag Bakovia it had been changed to that of one of the Cooperation's of the Way Sun Cooperation. Three men could be seen setting up the camera it was time for them to begin the reveal. They moved to there positions behind a wooden desk placing Balaklavas over there faces and picking up assault rifles in order to create an air of tension. Then they went live.... the man in the centre sitting down began to speak of the script he had been given, "To the people of Bakovia and of Belekov, we are the liberators... we will free our people liberate them from a corrupt and evil government who has made our nation a pariah state isolated and with many enemies contesting for influence over our corrupted government"
"No more" he shouted as he continued. "We have left Belekov to burn and wither under a chemical attack not out of hatred but as a plea of help.. A plea for the people of Bakovia who are left isolated and oppressed that we welcome integration, that we welcome annexation freedom form this regime of terror." he paused taking a breath. "Victory and survival, can only be brought and assured by our reunification with the Cooperation. To save us from these puppet masters of the CSL and there so called democratic processes. Which will only bring us into deeper despair, while our neighbours independent of it prosper. The Cooperation offers us a path to prosperity, Rise up my brother and sisters and we must resist not for our own means but for our children's and there children's which will benefit." the stream then cut as a man walked over in a suit passing over a brief case filled with NSD. "Exsurgens chaos, novam excudere viam, you must create the chaos to spark the rise of Prosperity" after saying this the man in the shady suit left, leaving the three terrorists alone alongside one million NSD.
Igniting the atmosphere, Deonec News Network
President Dawson stood in the centre of the room reminiscent of when he announced the Helios One incident, never a good sign. If he was announcing something bad it would be at the podium, and today he stood there ready to speak to the nation and to the world. "My fellow citizens of the Cooperation and Observers from across the world, I stand here today to speak to you all and give you some daunting news." there was pause designed to increase the tension. The director giving the single to continue. "Are brethren in Bakovia a nation in disarray and fractured by its own government host of terrorists and criminals, have sent a plea of help. The oppressed people of Bakovia have spoken that there government must be toppled, it acts as a puppet for our enemies and does not serve the interest of its people serving that's of the CSL"
"I tell you now, I did not take this position easily but I saw no conceivable option that could justify our nation abandoning its brothers, who wish to be embraced by the cooperation and the protection it ensures. But this was not enough to make me commit the lives of our people to a war... yet again pausing he prepared for the blow which would create a rally for his people, he was thinking to himself, of the masterstrokes the CID had made for this to work. "But then I received the harrowing images that will be shown on screen of the Bakovian Military under orders by there terrorist leaders and government launched an attack on the cooperation itself. The border post on the M-2 was struck at night by these disillusioned soldiers killing twelve CDF solider. This my fellow citizens is what made it clear that we have no choice but to intervene."
"We are left no choice, we march on Bakovia, not just to avenge the twelve killed in there taugthless attack but to free the people of Bakovia from there regime of terror and to reunify them into the cooperation and guarantee there independence." the president paused before going off the script for the conclusion, he knew what would best reaerate around the news and the people after all, he was a master marketer. "I ask you the people of the Cooperation and Bakovia. That you join us in this operation no crusade, which will break the corrupt Bakovia swiftly... Long live the Cooperation, let us rise from this chaos and corruption" then the video cut to the regular news switch and mostly switched over to broadcasting on the approach of war...
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