Valley of the Giant
16-07-2006, 19:16
The Valley of the Giant was dubbed this by Alexander the Great. Nestled now between Russia and Turkey, Alexander's warriors gazed apon giant people farming and living their lives. Believing this to be a place of the Gods, they simply left them alone, as the Persian kings had done before them. The Valley of the Giants, however, was wiped clean of their large inhabitants within 100 years by Arab invaders. Gypsy nomads, however, resetled the valley, pushing out the Arab inhabitants and settling, unknown and uncared by the rest of the world.
During World War One, the Ottomans asked the inhabitants of the Valley to defend the Empire. Reluctantly, they agreed, but the war was lost and the British began to colonize the valley. The majority population rebelled and declared independance from the British Empire, fighting off all attempts to reclaim the valley. The Valley of the Giants invaded nearby lands,, spreading all the way to the nortehrn Iraqi desert, where a large fence was built to establish teh border between the British and the Vallians. This border has been retained for decades and the Valley has remained neutral and seperated from teh world, even throughout the Cold War.
Suddam Hussein, however, has broken the borders and is raiding lands that have belonged to the Commonwealth of the Valley of the Giant since 1921, before Iraq was even a state within Britain. The Arab and Kurdish populations, who are being persecuted whoever they may be, are cursing their Government for this war. Intel of dozens fo nations, big and small, tell that the Vallian military is tiny and easily defeatable by Suddam's forces. But they have not looked deep enough, and the Vallians have been accumilating large numbers of weapons over the Cold War.
A large Iraqi tank brigade begins to roll over the desert dunes and aim their cannons at the village below. There are a series of clicks as the volley is about to begin, but before they can shoot, the commander sees four modfied MiG-17 jets fly overhead. They were to late to see the anti-tank missiles flying towards their tanks, destroying six of the tanks, which exploded and damaged another four. From their flanks came men and women, Gypsy and Arab, armed with AK-101s and M-161A2s and anti-tank shoulder-mounted missile launchers, which wiped out all but three of the tanks, which were hijacked and their crews taken prisoner.
The Vallian-Iraqi war had begun.
(If you want to get involved, that's fine. I don't want to hear 'Oh, I own this and that'. If you want to play, RP as yourself or any NATO or Warshaw country, but note this is 1987.)
During World War One, the Ottomans asked the inhabitants of the Valley to defend the Empire. Reluctantly, they agreed, but the war was lost and the British began to colonize the valley. The majority population rebelled and declared independance from the British Empire, fighting off all attempts to reclaim the valley. The Valley of the Giants invaded nearby lands,, spreading all the way to the nortehrn Iraqi desert, where a large fence was built to establish teh border between the British and the Vallians. This border has been retained for decades and the Valley has remained neutral and seperated from teh world, even throughout the Cold War.
Suddam Hussein, however, has broken the borders and is raiding lands that have belonged to the Commonwealth of the Valley of the Giant since 1921, before Iraq was even a state within Britain. The Arab and Kurdish populations, who are being persecuted whoever they may be, are cursing their Government for this war. Intel of dozens fo nations, big and small, tell that the Vallian military is tiny and easily defeatable by Suddam's forces. But they have not looked deep enough, and the Vallians have been accumilating large numbers of weapons over the Cold War.
A large Iraqi tank brigade begins to roll over the desert dunes and aim their cannons at the village below. There are a series of clicks as the volley is about to begin, but before they can shoot, the commander sees four modfied MiG-17 jets fly overhead. They were to late to see the anti-tank missiles flying towards their tanks, destroying six of the tanks, which exploded and damaged another four. From their flanks came men and women, Gypsy and Arab, armed with AK-101s and M-161A2s and anti-tank shoulder-mounted missile launchers, which wiped out all but three of the tanks, which were hijacked and their crews taken prisoner.
The Vallian-Iraqi war had begun.
(If you want to get involved, that's fine. I don't want to hear 'Oh, I own this and that'. If you want to play, RP as yourself or any NATO or Warshaw country, but note this is 1987.)