H-Town Tejas
30-09-2006, 02:57
Right, so this is my first attempt at actually creating one of these RPs. This thing is an Earth-based RP that takes place in 2025. 19 years has changed the face of the world massively, with massive wars breaking out all over Equatorial Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasus. Albania, under the control of hyper-nationalist Bashkim Natëujk, invades Western Macedonia. The Chad-Sudan conflict breaks out into full-scale war. Gabon and Equatorial Guinea collapse into anarchy after their authoritarian leaders die, leaving an overstretched Cameroon and Republic of the Congo to keep the peace. Iraqi Kurdistan becomes an independent state, and the remainder of the war-torn country becomes a Western-sponsored military dictatorship. And, of course, the stereotypical Israel-Arab States/Iran war. It's all in the timeline below.
2006: General Adorján Bajusz, after continued refusal by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to step down, overthrows the Hungarian government and declares a transitional military regime of two years.
2007: Due to the continuation of UN inaction on the Darfur conflict, President Idriss Déby of Chad launches “Opération: Jamais Encore,” a full-scale invasion of Sudan in the interests of liberating Darfur.
2008: Raúl Castro dies. Fidel, almost on his own deathbed, hastily appoints a young, capable, yet almost unheard of Communist official as his successor, Amilcar Jesús Peralta Bérmudez.
2009: After 50 years of almost uninterrupted rule, Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz dies. The expected revolutionary forces rise up against the government, taking over most of Western Cuba and sieging Havana. Peralta flees to la Isla de la Juventud, the only other Communist stronghold in Western Cuba.
2010: Iraq’s military is rebuilt to some extent, replacing now-withdrawing Coalition troops.
2012: After a crash in the Albanian economy, charismatic hyper-nationalist Bashkim Natëujk of the small, extreme Albanian Prosperity Movement is elected President of Albania.
2012: Western Macedonia increases a sharp spike in Albanian terrorist activity, sparking a second Macedonian conflict. A similar spike in terrorist activity occurs in Kosovo. Both Serbia and Macedonia are quick to blame the spikes in terrorist activity on President Natëujk’s hyper-nationalist, harshly anti-Serb/Macedonian rhetoric, and even go so far as accusing his government of funding the terrorists, although nothing is proved.
2013: President Omar Bongo of Gabon dies in a plane crash on a state visit to Equatorial Guinea. Along with him, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea dies as well. Both of these leaders, having autocratically controlled their countries since 1967 and 1979, respectively, cause both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to collapse into ethnically-fueled states of disorder.
2013: With the African Union’s blessing, the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon launch peace-keeping missions into Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Their mistake is soon realized, as President Denis Sassou-Nguesso put it, “Iraq in Equatorial Africa” began.
2013: The so-called, “Great Kurdish Revolution” begins. As Coalition troops begin to withdraw from Iraq, Kurdish nationalists seize control of Iraqi Kurdistan. President Rafiq Duhoki, military dictator of the new Independent State of Kurdistan, urges Kurds outside of Kurdistan to “rebel against their repressors and assist in the formation of the new Kurdish state.”
2013: With the breakaway of Kurdistan, the remaining Coalition forces instate complete martial law within the rest of Iraq. Colonel al-Iskafi Ali al-Baghdadi, with essentially the blessing of the US, becomes military dictator of Iraq.
2014: Iran produces a serviceable nuclear weapon and successfully tests it, becoming the ninth nuclear weapon state. Israel bombs Iranian nuclear facilities in response. An angry Iran, a vengeful Lebanon, and an eager Syria, respond by declaring war on Israel, assisted by Hizbullah, Hamas, and Fatah.
2014: Military leader Ya’qub al-Musayyabi of Algeria launches a military coup d’etat. Due to his extreme friendliness towards the West, even going so far as recognizing Israel and sending a small Algerian force to assist them, along with joining the Coalition, the major Western powers do not move against him.
2017: Azerbaijan makes a move to put Nagorno-Karabakh back under their control. Armenia responds by declaring war on Azerbaijan. Turkey intervenes in favor of Azerbaijan, while Russia intervenes in favor of Armenia.
2018: Georgia violently implodes as the frozen conflict zones of Abkhazia and South Ossetia “thaw.” Russian soldiers become more thinly spread as soldiers are deployed into Russian-supported Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Things look grim in the Caucasus…
2018: Egypt and Jordan join the Iran-Syria-Lebanon alliance. Western troops pour into Israel.
2019: Musayyabi is ousted by huge riots in Algeria, led by the charismatic Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani. A transitional government is formed in Algeria, led by Sakhtiyani’s Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity, a unified front of socialist parties. Troops are withdrawn from Algeria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, recognition of Israel is withdrawn, and peace is made with the Arab states and Iran.
2020: A second Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict begins over the disputed territories within said countries. The conflict, costing heavily in military and civilian casualties, goes into a complete stalemate.
2021: Than Shwe, military dictator of Myanmar, is assassinated in Yangon. The ethnic time bomb that is the Union of Myanmar goes off, causing a huge civil war.
2022: After discovering a plot to cancel Algeria’s elections by rightists in the country, President Sakhtiyani cancels the elections and declares a one-party state in Algeria. With a combination of charisma and a short period of martial law, Sakhtiyani manages to quell most large-scale insurgency.
2022: As terrorism grows uncontrollably in Macedonia, Bulgaria launches a peacekeeping mission into the country. As Albania responds with an offensive into Western Macedonia, Bulgaria finds its military all there is between the complete collapse/Albanian domination of Macedonia and continued independence for their Western neighbor.
2023: Sapurmurat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov dies of a heart attack. When his successor attempts to hold a referendum on government reform, military leaders loyal to Turkmenbashi launch a military coup. The Turkmen people react badly, and begin resisting the military government.
2025: GAME START
Rules:
1. I am God in this RP. Yo soy Dios. Je suis Dieu. Ore wa Kami-sama. You get the point. What I say goes. That said, if you have some sort of legitimate point, I will allow you to argue it.
2. The mods I appoint are...lesser gods. You will obey them just like you obey me.
3. I need a history/factbook thread within a week of you joining this thing. Then, I give your claim away. If you can come with the factbook after that, I'll give it to you, but if somebody comes with the factbook before you can, too bad. The country you want is theirs.
All I need in this thread is a timeline of events since '06 and any other information you might want to put in, IE leadership, etc. To clarify, you can't change anything that's already happened.
4. If you want a power-wise major nation (IE: China, Russia, USA, UK, etc.) you'll have to cite some examples of RP you were in to see if I think you've got the experience and dedication to playing that nation. You can still have a good RP, better even than what you would have with a non-uber powerful nation, I've set up plenty of crazy conflicts for you.
5. You can have one nation, and one nation only. No exceptions. There shall be no claimings of all of South America, or all of Southeast Asia, there shall be claimings of Venezuela, or Cambodia, or what the hell ever.
6. Keep it realistic. I will allow you a fair amount of leeway in tweaking what's happened in 19 years, but I still expect realism. Burkina Faso will not become the largest economy in 19 years.
7. Freedom movements! I'm going to allow certain ones, assuming they want to be played. If you would like to play one of the following:
-Transnistria (Moldova)
-Somaliland (Somalia)
-Puntland (Somalia)
-Chechnya (Russia)
-Kurdistan
-Abkhazia (Georgia)
-South Ossetia (Georgia)
-Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)
-Northern Cyprus (Cyprus)
-Palestine
-Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
-Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka)
-Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea)
Now, you'll notice that I've put a country in parentheses next to most of these freedom movements. You know why they're there? It's simple. If the state in parentheses is a player, you have to get their permission to play them. That simple.
Also, you strictly operate in those areas, plus some operations outside IF it's realistic. Just because you're a freedom movement, you DO NOT automatically have well-trained cells operating all over the world waiting to, I don't know, put bombs in pizza parlors and soccer stadiums.
8. You obviously cannot godmod. I shouldn't have to put this rule down, but I've seen people be idiots and godmod the hell out of shit all because there was no written rule against godmoding. It's up to me and the mods if you're godmoding or not.
9. If you're inactive for...a month, I give away your nation. You can come get it back, if you're motivated to, but somebody can snatch it from under your nose.
10. If a nation is abandoned, anything and everything its player has done to it stays, unless for some reason total unrealism slips by my nose, and then, it shouldn't be there anyway.
11. Timescale is 1 RL Day=1 RP Week.
2006: General Adorján Bajusz, after continued refusal by Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány to step down, overthrows the Hungarian government and declares a transitional military regime of two years.
2007: Due to the continuation of UN inaction on the Darfur conflict, President Idriss Déby of Chad launches “Opération: Jamais Encore,” a full-scale invasion of Sudan in the interests of liberating Darfur.
2008: Raúl Castro dies. Fidel, almost on his own deathbed, hastily appoints a young, capable, yet almost unheard of Communist official as his successor, Amilcar Jesús Peralta Bérmudez.
2009: After 50 years of almost uninterrupted rule, Fidel Alejandro Castro Rúz dies. The expected revolutionary forces rise up against the government, taking over most of Western Cuba and sieging Havana. Peralta flees to la Isla de la Juventud, the only other Communist stronghold in Western Cuba.
2010: Iraq’s military is rebuilt to some extent, replacing now-withdrawing Coalition troops.
2012: After a crash in the Albanian economy, charismatic hyper-nationalist Bashkim Natëujk of the small, extreme Albanian Prosperity Movement is elected President of Albania.
2012: Western Macedonia increases a sharp spike in Albanian terrorist activity, sparking a second Macedonian conflict. A similar spike in terrorist activity occurs in Kosovo. Both Serbia and Macedonia are quick to blame the spikes in terrorist activity on President Natëujk’s hyper-nationalist, harshly anti-Serb/Macedonian rhetoric, and even go so far as accusing his government of funding the terrorists, although nothing is proved.
2013: President Omar Bongo of Gabon dies in a plane crash on a state visit to Equatorial Guinea. Along with him, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea dies as well. Both of these leaders, having autocratically controlled their countries since 1967 and 1979, respectively, cause both Gabon and Equatorial Guinea to collapse into ethnically-fueled states of disorder.
2013: With the African Union’s blessing, the Republic of the Congo and Cameroon launch peace-keeping missions into Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. Their mistake is soon realized, as President Denis Sassou-Nguesso put it, “Iraq in Equatorial Africa” began.
2013: The so-called, “Great Kurdish Revolution” begins. As Coalition troops begin to withdraw from Iraq, Kurdish nationalists seize control of Iraqi Kurdistan. President Rafiq Duhoki, military dictator of the new Independent State of Kurdistan, urges Kurds outside of Kurdistan to “rebel against their repressors and assist in the formation of the new Kurdish state.”
2013: With the breakaway of Kurdistan, the remaining Coalition forces instate complete martial law within the rest of Iraq. Colonel al-Iskafi Ali al-Baghdadi, with essentially the blessing of the US, becomes military dictator of Iraq.
2014: Iran produces a serviceable nuclear weapon and successfully tests it, becoming the ninth nuclear weapon state. Israel bombs Iranian nuclear facilities in response. An angry Iran, a vengeful Lebanon, and an eager Syria, respond by declaring war on Israel, assisted by Hizbullah, Hamas, and Fatah.
2014: Military leader Ya’qub al-Musayyabi of Algeria launches a military coup d’etat. Due to his extreme friendliness towards the West, even going so far as recognizing Israel and sending a small Algerian force to assist them, along with joining the Coalition, the major Western powers do not move against him.
2017: Azerbaijan makes a move to put Nagorno-Karabakh back under their control. Armenia responds by declaring war on Azerbaijan. Turkey intervenes in favor of Azerbaijan, while Russia intervenes in favor of Armenia.
2018: Georgia violently implodes as the frozen conflict zones of Abkhazia and South Ossetia “thaw.” Russian soldiers become more thinly spread as soldiers are deployed into Russian-supported Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Things look grim in the Caucasus…
2018: Egypt and Jordan join the Iran-Syria-Lebanon alliance. Western troops pour into Israel.
2019: Musayyabi is ousted by huge riots in Algeria, led by the charismatic Malik Asad Mahmoud al-Sakhtiyani. A transitional government is formed in Algeria, led by Sakhtiyani’s Worker’s Party of Marxist Unity, a unified front of socialist parties. Troops are withdrawn from Algeria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, recognition of Israel is withdrawn, and peace is made with the Arab states and Iran.
2020: A second Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict begins over the disputed territories within said countries. The conflict, costing heavily in military and civilian casualties, goes into a complete stalemate.
2021: Than Shwe, military dictator of Myanmar, is assassinated in Yangon. The ethnic time bomb that is the Union of Myanmar goes off, causing a huge civil war.
2022: After discovering a plot to cancel Algeria’s elections by rightists in the country, President Sakhtiyani cancels the elections and declares a one-party state in Algeria. With a combination of charisma and a short period of martial law, Sakhtiyani manages to quell most large-scale insurgency.
2022: As terrorism grows uncontrollably in Macedonia, Bulgaria launches a peacekeeping mission into the country. As Albania responds with an offensive into Western Macedonia, Bulgaria finds its military all there is between the complete collapse/Albanian domination of Macedonia and continued independence for their Western neighbor.
2023: Sapurmurat “Turkmenbashi” Niyazov dies of a heart attack. When his successor attempts to hold a referendum on government reform, military leaders loyal to Turkmenbashi launch a military coup. The Turkmen people react badly, and begin resisting the military government.
2025: GAME START
Rules:
1. I am God in this RP. Yo soy Dios. Je suis Dieu. Ore wa Kami-sama. You get the point. What I say goes. That said, if you have some sort of legitimate point, I will allow you to argue it.
2. The mods I appoint are...lesser gods. You will obey them just like you obey me.
3. I need a history/factbook thread within a week of you joining this thing. Then, I give your claim away. If you can come with the factbook after that, I'll give it to you, but if somebody comes with the factbook before you can, too bad. The country you want is theirs.
All I need in this thread is a timeline of events since '06 and any other information you might want to put in, IE leadership, etc. To clarify, you can't change anything that's already happened.
4. If you want a power-wise major nation (IE: China, Russia, USA, UK, etc.) you'll have to cite some examples of RP you were in to see if I think you've got the experience and dedication to playing that nation. You can still have a good RP, better even than what you would have with a non-uber powerful nation, I've set up plenty of crazy conflicts for you.
5. You can have one nation, and one nation only. No exceptions. There shall be no claimings of all of South America, or all of Southeast Asia, there shall be claimings of Venezuela, or Cambodia, or what the hell ever.
6. Keep it realistic. I will allow you a fair amount of leeway in tweaking what's happened in 19 years, but I still expect realism. Burkina Faso will not become the largest economy in 19 years.
7. Freedom movements! I'm going to allow certain ones, assuming they want to be played. If you would like to play one of the following:
-Transnistria (Moldova)
-Somaliland (Somalia)
-Puntland (Somalia)
-Chechnya (Russia)
-Kurdistan
-Abkhazia (Georgia)
-South Ossetia (Georgia)
-Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)
-Northern Cyprus (Cyprus)
-Palestine
-Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
-Tamil Eelam (Sri Lanka)
-Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea)
Now, you'll notice that I've put a country in parentheses next to most of these freedom movements. You know why they're there? It's simple. If the state in parentheses is a player, you have to get their permission to play them. That simple.
Also, you strictly operate in those areas, plus some operations outside IF it's realistic. Just because you're a freedom movement, you DO NOT automatically have well-trained cells operating all over the world waiting to, I don't know, put bombs in pizza parlors and soccer stadiums.
8. You obviously cannot godmod. I shouldn't have to put this rule down, but I've seen people be idiots and godmod the hell out of shit all because there was no written rule against godmoding. It's up to me and the mods if you're godmoding or not.
9. If you're inactive for...a month, I give away your nation. You can come get it back, if you're motivated to, but somebody can snatch it from under your nose.
10. If a nation is abandoned, anything and everything its player has done to it stays, unless for some reason total unrealism slips by my nose, and then, it shouldn't be there anyway.
11. Timescale is 1 RL Day=1 RP Week.