Invironia
10-01-2009, 10:48
(OOC: My intro. I would politely request no invasions, as that would kinda end my RP career somewhat prematurely. Hope you enjoy.)
Marcus Taylor looked down the barrel of his sniper rifle at the buildings opposite his position and muttered unflatteringly once again about the security troops that refused to show their faces. The sniper had now been sitting at his vantage point for three hours, and his muscles were beginning to protest at the lack of movement. Taylor stretched his left arm out from under the barrel of the weapon and rotated his wrist a couple of times until he heard the bones click, and licked his lips thoughtfully as he stared through the scope of the rifle.
PFL forces had held Vantage City surrounded for almost a week now. Marcus, attached to what was now known as the 14th “South Garrison” Battalion, had been in position with his unit for twice that length, being part of the first deployments of troops to harry supply lines out of the Garrison Corporation’s final stronghold a month earlier. Since then, the war had gone well for the PFL, and security forces of the Corporation had been pushed back on all sides until Vantage City stood as the last hope for the beleaguered corporate government. All Marcus knew was that the war was almost at an end, and he had almost forgotten what peace felt like. At 33 years old, Marcus had joined up with his unit right at the start of the decade-long civil war during the Corporation’s attempt at Operation Eviction, stepping up to defend his family from the marauding security troops. Marcus could hardly believe it had been ten years since the 14th had first been formed and moved out for the first time, taking Garrison City from the Corporation and pushing them out into the countryside in a bloody street-by-street battle. He was lucky to be alive.
And now Vantage City stood as the last stronghold. Marcus gritted his teeth as he swung the scope to view each window of the buildings opposite that stood on the outskirts of the city. Almost thirty thousand men of the irregular Battalions, many now hardened by battle over the last ten years, surrounded Vantage City on all sides, supported by mechanised and air units captured of defected from the Garrison Corporation security forces. Word on the grapevine was that the PFL leadership were debating when to go in. Marcus hoped it would be soon, he was itching to get this over with. Vantage City, a veritable nest of high-rise buildings and corporation support, had always been Garrison Corp’s most loyal stronghold. Marcus took a moment to spit on the ground. ‘No better than Fascists,’ he thought derisively.
He looked back through the scope, and frowned. From one of the windows, movement could be seen. Marcus eagerly reached for the chambering lever on his weapon as he saw hands wave from the window, and then paused in puzzlement as a long, wooden pole, seemingly pulled from part of the building’s structure, was pushed out of the window and waved frantically, the white cloth on the end of the pole dancing with the wind and movement like a bird on the currents. Marcus lowered his weapon a little, and looked at the building. Then he noticed, to the left and right of his target, more white flags waving. Marcus stood, rubbing the back of his head in confusion, and looked across the panoramic view of the city outskirts he commanded from his vantage at the sea of white flags. “The hell?” he muttered.
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Invironian Civil War Ends, Corporate Forces Capitulate
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A tank attached to the 7th Batallion "Nalworth Vanguard" breaks through the gates of
the Corporate Local Assembly in Vantage City at the end of the siege.
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CNN: The decade-long Invironian Civil War, a largely ignored and brutal conflict between its corporate founders and a popular people's movement, has finally come to an end with the capitulation of the surviving corporate government.
The war, conducted between security forces of the Garrison Corporation and the guerilla and conventional forces of the People's Front for Liberation (PFL), had been considered for several weeks a foregone conclusion following the Garrison Corporation defeat at the Battle of Rayne Valley last month. Since then, PFL forces had taken up a seige of Vantage City, the last stronghold of corporation support, who had restricted supply lines into the city with demands for total surrender of all corporate forces. Earlier this morning, their demands were met.
PFL forces entered the capital at midday amid a sea of white flags, and forces of the 2nd Batallion quickly took the Corporate Local Assembly building that had been used as the seat of the surviving government since the retreat to Vantage. It is understood that the remaining members of the former corporate government have been placed under arrest.
The PFL Revolutionary Command Council, the acknowledged leading body of the wider guerilla movement, announced that it would now begin the task of "socialist transformation" of the state to avoid the prospects of "bloody-minded, callous and cruel 'corporato-capitalist' oppression in the future." The PFL, politically regarded as a left-wing organisation, has long advocated the development of a political and economic system akin to a mix of Socialist Libertarian and Anarch-Communist ideals with weak elements of Representative Democracy.
However, analysts highlight several issues that the PFL leadership will have to face. Whilst the Command Council is regarded as the de facto command structure of the PFL group and has succeeded as the overall military strategists of the Revolutionary War, it is questionable how well the leadership will manage to maintain control now the war is over. The PFL forces, comprised of locally-arranged Batallions from their various points of origin, will be in danger of breaking down into chaos now the war is over, and with no official state organisation currently in place, the task of building the 'socialist transformation' spoken about will be a long and arduous process.
Steve Harbourne, CNN.
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A Brief History of Invironia
Invironian history is a short but bloody period spanning little more than a hundred years, and marking it as one of the more relatively new countries on the planet. The Invironian Isles that make up the state were colonised in 1909 by dissatisfied citizens of the United States, the British and Russian Empires, along with smaller numbers from other European and South American states as part of a private colonisation project run by the Garrison Corporation, a wealthy international conglomerate. The project was the dream of corporation founder David Garrison, who came upon the remarkably simple concept of getting around the tax laws of the countries in which his company was based by colonising and declaring his own political state. Project Invironia, named after the CEO’s birthplace of Invironia, West Virginia, brought together over three million colonists from various countries seeking a new life for various reasons; guaranteed lifelong employment, pioneer spirit, corporate incentives or fleeing their own past. The project landed along what is now known as the River Garrison, and settled their first settlement on the shores of the river, Garrison City.
Colonisation quickly spread across the lower sections of the territory, with new settlements appearing as the mineral extraction activities of the corporation took up more and more of the country, becoming a major coal producing state in less than thirty years. By 1950, the Invironian state comprised 4 million citizens, several large settlements and a growing capital. This growth spurt continued into the latter half of the 20th century, with Invironia soaking up massive amounts of aid and support from the United States due to its virulent anti-Communist stance during the Cold War. In 1980, the Invironian state covered the same area of territory as England.
However, it was during these latter years that political tensions and dissatisfaction began to come to a head. The Invironian state, run by corporate interests, was far from democratic, and seventy years on from its initial colonisation the original board members in charge of Garrison Corporation were dying and nominating appointees. Substandard living conditions for large sections of the lower-ranked working population, coupled with rising anger at the passing over of political and economic power into what was essentially a corporate dynasty led to the beginnings of public protest and civil disobedience, leading to several incidents where Garrison Corporation security forces were compelled to open fire and were complicit in the deaths of hundreds. The largest of these incidents, known as the 1987 Telford Massacre, resulted in the shooting of three hundred people after Garrison Corporation forces opened heavy fire upon protests in Telford Square of the capital.
Unrest fell after the Telford Massacre, but sporadic protests and acts of civil disobedience were reported over the next 20 years. It is now known that the People’s Front for Liberation (PFL) began operating around this time, an underground, unofficial political organisation heavily influenced by libertarian socialist political thought that advocated popular revolution against the Invironian state. Initial activity was low-level, with higher members instrumental in the organisation of political protests and acts of mass disobedience, as well as the distribution of political literature advocating their cause. Many of these early members were constantly hunted by internal security forces of Garrison Corp, similar to the activities and dangers of the French Resistance under Nazi occupation.
PFL levels of activity increased as the end of the 20th century neared, and civil disobedience began to change into outright violence against the Garrison Corp state organisation. It was from around 1990 that the PFL began hoarding weapons passed to them from several likeminded states, and during this time began more open political dialogue and public acceptance of responsibility for acts of unrest. From 1995 onwards, the underground membership of the PFL is estimated to have skyrocketed, whilst those with sympathies for the PFL were estimated to be the majority of the population.
In 1998, the Garrison Corporation carried out its last major operation in desperation against the PFL. Operation Eviction comprised a major military operation by Garrison Corporation security forces, and began at midnight on the 28th of June. Several battalions of infantry forces fell upon major strongholds of support for the PFL with the intent of physically wiping out support for the group. Hundreds were killed in the first hours of the operation, but Garrison Corp security forces soon found themselves against heavy resistance. PFL members plundered their stockpiles of weapons and took up arms against the security troops with the intent of defending their families and homes against the massacre, and pre-planned platoons of local citizens took up the attack. Operation Eviction began to peter as the civilians fought back, and soon the security forces were in retreat from their objectives. Acting swiftly, the PFL leadership based declared ‘revolutionary war’ against the Garrison Corporation, urging the population to step forward for the ‘final blow against corporate enslavement.’ With those words, Invironia exploded into a ten-year civil war against the technologically superior Garrison Corporation forces, a long and brutal conflict that claimed thousands of lives and only came to an end on 10 January 2008 with the official surrender of surrounded Garrison Corporation security troops in Vantage City in the south-west of the country.
Marcus Taylor looked down the barrel of his sniper rifle at the buildings opposite his position and muttered unflatteringly once again about the security troops that refused to show their faces. The sniper had now been sitting at his vantage point for three hours, and his muscles were beginning to protest at the lack of movement. Taylor stretched his left arm out from under the barrel of the weapon and rotated his wrist a couple of times until he heard the bones click, and licked his lips thoughtfully as he stared through the scope of the rifle.
PFL forces had held Vantage City surrounded for almost a week now. Marcus, attached to what was now known as the 14th “South Garrison” Battalion, had been in position with his unit for twice that length, being part of the first deployments of troops to harry supply lines out of the Garrison Corporation’s final stronghold a month earlier. Since then, the war had gone well for the PFL, and security forces of the Corporation had been pushed back on all sides until Vantage City stood as the last hope for the beleaguered corporate government. All Marcus knew was that the war was almost at an end, and he had almost forgotten what peace felt like. At 33 years old, Marcus had joined up with his unit right at the start of the decade-long civil war during the Corporation’s attempt at Operation Eviction, stepping up to defend his family from the marauding security troops. Marcus could hardly believe it had been ten years since the 14th had first been formed and moved out for the first time, taking Garrison City from the Corporation and pushing them out into the countryside in a bloody street-by-street battle. He was lucky to be alive.
And now Vantage City stood as the last stronghold. Marcus gritted his teeth as he swung the scope to view each window of the buildings opposite that stood on the outskirts of the city. Almost thirty thousand men of the irregular Battalions, many now hardened by battle over the last ten years, surrounded Vantage City on all sides, supported by mechanised and air units captured of defected from the Garrison Corporation security forces. Word on the grapevine was that the PFL leadership were debating when to go in. Marcus hoped it would be soon, he was itching to get this over with. Vantage City, a veritable nest of high-rise buildings and corporation support, had always been Garrison Corp’s most loyal stronghold. Marcus took a moment to spit on the ground. ‘No better than Fascists,’ he thought derisively.
He looked back through the scope, and frowned. From one of the windows, movement could be seen. Marcus eagerly reached for the chambering lever on his weapon as he saw hands wave from the window, and then paused in puzzlement as a long, wooden pole, seemingly pulled from part of the building’s structure, was pushed out of the window and waved frantically, the white cloth on the end of the pole dancing with the wind and movement like a bird on the currents. Marcus lowered his weapon a little, and looked at the building. Then he noticed, to the left and right of his target, more white flags waving. Marcus stood, rubbing the back of his head in confusion, and looked across the panoramic view of the city outskirts he commanded from his vantage at the sea of white flags. “The hell?” he muttered.
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Invironian Civil War Ends, Corporate Forces Capitulate
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A tank attached to the 7th Batallion "Nalworth Vanguard" breaks through the gates of
the Corporate Local Assembly in Vantage City at the end of the siege.
(Uploaded by unknown local source.)
CNN: The decade-long Invironian Civil War, a largely ignored and brutal conflict between its corporate founders and a popular people's movement, has finally come to an end with the capitulation of the surviving corporate government.
The war, conducted between security forces of the Garrison Corporation and the guerilla and conventional forces of the People's Front for Liberation (PFL), had been considered for several weeks a foregone conclusion following the Garrison Corporation defeat at the Battle of Rayne Valley last month. Since then, PFL forces had taken up a seige of Vantage City, the last stronghold of corporation support, who had restricted supply lines into the city with demands for total surrender of all corporate forces. Earlier this morning, their demands were met.
PFL forces entered the capital at midday amid a sea of white flags, and forces of the 2nd Batallion quickly took the Corporate Local Assembly building that had been used as the seat of the surviving government since the retreat to Vantage. It is understood that the remaining members of the former corporate government have been placed under arrest.
The PFL Revolutionary Command Council, the acknowledged leading body of the wider guerilla movement, announced that it would now begin the task of "socialist transformation" of the state to avoid the prospects of "bloody-minded, callous and cruel 'corporato-capitalist' oppression in the future." The PFL, politically regarded as a left-wing organisation, has long advocated the development of a political and economic system akin to a mix of Socialist Libertarian and Anarch-Communist ideals with weak elements of Representative Democracy.
However, analysts highlight several issues that the PFL leadership will have to face. Whilst the Command Council is regarded as the de facto command structure of the PFL group and has succeeded as the overall military strategists of the Revolutionary War, it is questionable how well the leadership will manage to maintain control now the war is over. The PFL forces, comprised of locally-arranged Batallions from their various points of origin, will be in danger of breaking down into chaos now the war is over, and with no official state organisation currently in place, the task of building the 'socialist transformation' spoken about will be a long and arduous process.
Steve Harbourne, CNN.
----
A Brief History of Invironia
Invironian history is a short but bloody period spanning little more than a hundred years, and marking it as one of the more relatively new countries on the planet. The Invironian Isles that make up the state were colonised in 1909 by dissatisfied citizens of the United States, the British and Russian Empires, along with smaller numbers from other European and South American states as part of a private colonisation project run by the Garrison Corporation, a wealthy international conglomerate. The project was the dream of corporation founder David Garrison, who came upon the remarkably simple concept of getting around the tax laws of the countries in which his company was based by colonising and declaring his own political state. Project Invironia, named after the CEO’s birthplace of Invironia, West Virginia, brought together over three million colonists from various countries seeking a new life for various reasons; guaranteed lifelong employment, pioneer spirit, corporate incentives or fleeing their own past. The project landed along what is now known as the River Garrison, and settled their first settlement on the shores of the river, Garrison City.
Colonisation quickly spread across the lower sections of the territory, with new settlements appearing as the mineral extraction activities of the corporation took up more and more of the country, becoming a major coal producing state in less than thirty years. By 1950, the Invironian state comprised 4 million citizens, several large settlements and a growing capital. This growth spurt continued into the latter half of the 20th century, with Invironia soaking up massive amounts of aid and support from the United States due to its virulent anti-Communist stance during the Cold War. In 1980, the Invironian state covered the same area of territory as England.
However, it was during these latter years that political tensions and dissatisfaction began to come to a head. The Invironian state, run by corporate interests, was far from democratic, and seventy years on from its initial colonisation the original board members in charge of Garrison Corporation were dying and nominating appointees. Substandard living conditions for large sections of the lower-ranked working population, coupled with rising anger at the passing over of political and economic power into what was essentially a corporate dynasty led to the beginnings of public protest and civil disobedience, leading to several incidents where Garrison Corporation security forces were compelled to open fire and were complicit in the deaths of hundreds. The largest of these incidents, known as the 1987 Telford Massacre, resulted in the shooting of three hundred people after Garrison Corporation forces opened heavy fire upon protests in Telford Square of the capital.
Unrest fell after the Telford Massacre, but sporadic protests and acts of civil disobedience were reported over the next 20 years. It is now known that the People’s Front for Liberation (PFL) began operating around this time, an underground, unofficial political organisation heavily influenced by libertarian socialist political thought that advocated popular revolution against the Invironian state. Initial activity was low-level, with higher members instrumental in the organisation of political protests and acts of mass disobedience, as well as the distribution of political literature advocating their cause. Many of these early members were constantly hunted by internal security forces of Garrison Corp, similar to the activities and dangers of the French Resistance under Nazi occupation.
PFL levels of activity increased as the end of the 20th century neared, and civil disobedience began to change into outright violence against the Garrison Corp state organisation. It was from around 1990 that the PFL began hoarding weapons passed to them from several likeminded states, and during this time began more open political dialogue and public acceptance of responsibility for acts of unrest. From 1995 onwards, the underground membership of the PFL is estimated to have skyrocketed, whilst those with sympathies for the PFL were estimated to be the majority of the population.
In 1998, the Garrison Corporation carried out its last major operation in desperation against the PFL. Operation Eviction comprised a major military operation by Garrison Corporation security forces, and began at midnight on the 28th of June. Several battalions of infantry forces fell upon major strongholds of support for the PFL with the intent of physically wiping out support for the group. Hundreds were killed in the first hours of the operation, but Garrison Corp security forces soon found themselves against heavy resistance. PFL members plundered their stockpiles of weapons and took up arms against the security troops with the intent of defending their families and homes against the massacre, and pre-planned platoons of local citizens took up the attack. Operation Eviction began to peter as the civilians fought back, and soon the security forces were in retreat from their objectives. Acting swiftly, the PFL leadership based declared ‘revolutionary war’ against the Garrison Corporation, urging the population to step forward for the ‘final blow against corporate enslavement.’ With those words, Invironia exploded into a ten-year civil war against the technologically superior Garrison Corporation forces, a long and brutal conflict that claimed thousands of lives and only came to an end on 10 January 2008 with the official surrender of surrounded Garrison Corporation security troops in Vantage City in the south-west of the country.