Vive La France (1988)
The last 2 years have been years of misery, with the collapse of Africa, Chernobyl disaster, military coup in Saudi Arabia and the successor of Chiang Kai-Shek being assassinated, the world has truly been set ablaze.
— Chernobyl DISASTER
In 1986 reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant blew up, the fire spreading quickly to reactor 3 and radiation into the Dnipro river. The following year current supreme leader of Russia was poisoned with Ricin. This left a power vaccuum as he didn’t announce his successor. Mainly 4 men, all with radical and extreme ideologies. But the Russian Government granted themselves emergency powers to solve the crisis, putting the successor issue on hold. Thus in 1987 Russia was focused on containing the spread of radiation as much as possible. But in the background, a plot was growing by the Eurasianist movement who took up arms in late October near St. Petersburg, as the Eurasianists clashed with government forces the other candidates saw this as their chance and took major Russian population centres for themselves. This caused a butterfly effect, as government forces could no longer reach places like Siberia, the Baltics, Ukraine, and Central Asia. Many nationalists and communists who fled to Siberia saw this as their chance, and started rising up. In the east the Russian Tsar has announced a future reconquest of former territories, but this was met with hostility from Moscow, they threatened to use nukes if any outsider country dared to intervene in the civil war.
(Gameplay: if any of the 5 Russian splinter states control Moscow, it controls the restoration faction)
Russia’s allies, or de-facto puppets have removed their Unitarian governments, as they relied on Russian supplies. They are looking to integrate themselves into the Coalition, Turkey having already successfully done so.
—Yellow river soaked red
With the late Chiang Kai-Shek dying in 1975 a successor had to take his place. This successor however was wildly unpopular, as he failed to stop the growing influence of the Tokyo Syndicate in Southeast Asia and Russia’s growing influence in the Middle East. Failing to reform the country, etc… He also had a very Western outlook, which many dispised. Thus in 1985 he was shot by a Chinese revolutionary, and succumbed to his wounds. Southern Chinese communists saw this as their awakening, taking up arms and rebelling. Quickly followed by monarchists and unitarians. This caused China’s puppet nations of Mongolia, Korea and Burma to collapse. The Tokyo Syndicate takes this as their opportunity to finally liberate all Asian workers.
—African wars
–Portuguese colonial war
The Portuguese have always ruled their colonies with an iron fist and saw them as an extension of Portugal. Thus for the last 11 years Portugal has been desperately trying to hold on to their colonies. But more recently it seems like Portugal is on the retreat, having abandoned southern Mozambique and northern Angola.
–Afrikaaner war
Tensions have always been high in South Africa, with apartheid still in full swing, African nationalists wanting independence, the Boers wanting subjucation of non-whites and foreign pressure to end apartheid. In 1987 a more liberal government was elected, but after trying to pass a anti-apartheid law, the military quickly took over. The Boers declared independence saying that the military’s actions were a breach of democracy. The Boers blocked South Africa from reaching Rhodesia and other northern territories. Causing them to break away from South Africa, the Boers then illegaly invaded these states, which were officialy still South African land. Thus the 2 sides declared war. The liberal republic fled to Natal, where they declared their own side of the war.
–Algeria
Algeria is France’s crown colony, basically being treated as a part of mainland France. But in recent years violence has only gotten worse in the territory. French police gunning down protestors, seperatists cutting power lines or destroying railways. It seems like France’s grip over Algeria slowly seems to fade.
–Syrian civil war
–Saudi Arabian civil war / Oil crisis
-Flood of immigrants to Europe
-Rising tensions between the Federals and Socialists
-2nd Panama canal crisis on the horizon
-Spread of Socialism in Africa
Vive La France
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