Dumbrarere
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- Posted: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 02:39:30 +0000
(An aerial Combat RP set in the universe of the PS3 F2P video game by Namco Bandai, Ace Combat Infinity, ten years after the game)
"It'll be thirty years to the day soon. The day the sky was ripped apart and countless bolts of light rained down upon us. I think this calls for a little history lesson. In 1994, a group of asteroids was discovered taking a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. They were created when an unknown asteroid collided with the 1987 VG1 Ulysses, an asteroid in orbit around Jupiter. The orbit of these Ulysses asteroids was on a collision course with Earth, with an estimated 10,000 meteors set to strike the surface. Since there was no way to divert the orbit of each asteroid, Construction on a vast anti-air railgun network, a last ditch effort to intercept and destroy the meteors.They built six facilities, the test unit Type 0 was built in China, Type 1 was built in America, and then four Type 5 units were built in Australia, Turkey, Namibia, and Argentina."
The scene cuts to a recorded news video of an asteroid crashing into the city of Tokyo, followed by several more, similarly sized asteroids. "In 1999, the asteroids began to strike. Thanks to the railgun network, damage was kept to a bare minimum: only about enough to destroy the entire world order. Never in it's existence has mankind experienced such a catastrophe. It came to be called the 'Ulysses Disaster.' The near-total loss of infrastructure led to economic chaos, particularly in the hard hit Eurasian continent. To avoid total breakdown, the nations of Asia and Southern Europe rearranged themselves into regional federations. Military budgets were slashed, and the federations poured most of their money into rebuilding. The depletion of energy resources brought on by the loss of territory soon proved to be a major problem, one that quickly led to an escalation in disputes over natural resources."
The scene switches back to the globe. "So tensions were escalating worldwide. The wars that resulted led to an increasing number of refugees. To handle these refugees, special semi-autonomous zones were established in the EU, the Asian nations, and part of Russia. Iyuli, the zone founded in southern Russia, was the largest of them land wise, which allowed them to take in vast numbers of migrants. But these refugees were treated like cheap labor. Living conditions grew worse, and the region was soon home to gigantic slum areas. Anti-foreign worker demonstrations were rife across the entire zone, threatening peace and welfare in the surrounding regions. As a result, a certain company stepped in to support the job market in the refugee zones. That company was Wernher and Noah Enterprises, the defense contractor giant. Once nations had to slash their military budgets after the Ulysses disaster, the private military service industry, with its mercenary forces, experienced a major boom. Also, thanks to the Advanced Automated Aviation Plant introducing enhanced computer numerical control to aircraft manufacture, it became a simple matter to rebuild previously-existing aircraft designs. The resulting glut in available aircraft led to a new issue: A lack of pilots to control them. Hence why you now see mercenary groups cobbled together from drop-out pilots."
"...Ahem. But I digress. The nations and federations overseeing the special zones welcomed Wernher's support. In turn, Wernher received huge parcels of land and a massive workforce to do its bidding. Soon, the company expanded from its core military business into energy and space development. Their business had an enormous impact on recovery efforts around the world, and the localized conflicts began to simmer down.
Twenty years later, the special zones have shown major economic growth under Wernher's wing, but the huge weapon stockpiles stored in these special zones have made them a breeding ground for armed extremist groups. These groups have formed a multi-national network spread across the special zones, and more and more, we're seeing them carrying out 'anti-imperialist' attacks in the nations surrounding Iyuli. This has led the UN and the world's superpowers to label them terrorists."
The scene goes black, then fades into blue, showing blueprints of an armed spacecraft. "Wernar Noah began work on a new orbital weapons spacecraft with several other nations. Being called a violation of space treaties and a new threat to replace Nuclear Proliferation, the UN demanded that the project be shutdown immediately. As a result, Wernar's chief military ,official, Kacper Cohen, was fired from their ranks. Kacper, being the leader of armed terrorists, began establishing an independent "Federation of USEA," proclaiming that it was time to "Create a new world order to replace the UN. We must create a new, powerful, united front to save our planet from oblivion." It was all propaganda no doubt, and the UN began simultaneous operations to suppress the Usean army's invasion."
-SORTIE ORDER-
"We'll continue this later."
"It'll be thirty years to the day soon. The day the sky was ripped apart and countless bolts of light rained down upon us. I think this calls for a little history lesson. In 1994, a group of asteroids was discovered taking a long, elliptical orbit around the sun. They were created when an unknown asteroid collided with the 1987 VG1 Ulysses, an asteroid in orbit around Jupiter. The orbit of these Ulysses asteroids was on a collision course with Earth, with an estimated 10,000 meteors set to strike the surface. Since there was no way to divert the orbit of each asteroid, Construction on a vast anti-air railgun network, a last ditch effort to intercept and destroy the meteors.They built six facilities, the test unit Type 0 was built in China, Type 1 was built in America, and then four Type 5 units were built in Australia, Turkey, Namibia, and Argentina."
The scene cuts to a recorded news video of an asteroid crashing into the city of Tokyo, followed by several more, similarly sized asteroids. "In 1999, the asteroids began to strike. Thanks to the railgun network, damage was kept to a bare minimum: only about enough to destroy the entire world order. Never in it's existence has mankind experienced such a catastrophe. It came to be called the 'Ulysses Disaster.' The near-total loss of infrastructure led to economic chaos, particularly in the hard hit Eurasian continent. To avoid total breakdown, the nations of Asia and Southern Europe rearranged themselves into regional federations. Military budgets were slashed, and the federations poured most of their money into rebuilding. The depletion of energy resources brought on by the loss of territory soon proved to be a major problem, one that quickly led to an escalation in disputes over natural resources."
The scene switches back to the globe. "So tensions were escalating worldwide. The wars that resulted led to an increasing number of refugees. To handle these refugees, special semi-autonomous zones were established in the EU, the Asian nations, and part of Russia. Iyuli, the zone founded in southern Russia, was the largest of them land wise, which allowed them to take in vast numbers of migrants. But these refugees were treated like cheap labor. Living conditions grew worse, and the region was soon home to gigantic slum areas. Anti-foreign worker demonstrations were rife across the entire zone, threatening peace and welfare in the surrounding regions. As a result, a certain company stepped in to support the job market in the refugee zones. That company was Wernher and Noah Enterprises, the defense contractor giant. Once nations had to slash their military budgets after the Ulysses disaster, the private military service industry, with its mercenary forces, experienced a major boom. Also, thanks to the Advanced Automated Aviation Plant introducing enhanced computer numerical control to aircraft manufacture, it became a simple matter to rebuild previously-existing aircraft designs. The resulting glut in available aircraft led to a new issue: A lack of pilots to control them. Hence why you now see mercenary groups cobbled together from drop-out pilots."
"...Ahem. But I digress. The nations and federations overseeing the special zones welcomed Wernher's support. In turn, Wernher received huge parcels of land and a massive workforce to do its bidding. Soon, the company expanded from its core military business into energy and space development. Their business had an enormous impact on recovery efforts around the world, and the localized conflicts began to simmer down.
Twenty years later, the special zones have shown major economic growth under Wernher's wing, but the huge weapon stockpiles stored in these special zones have made them a breeding ground for armed extremist groups. These groups have formed a multi-national network spread across the special zones, and more and more, we're seeing them carrying out 'anti-imperialist' attacks in the nations surrounding Iyuli. This has led the UN and the world's superpowers to label them terrorists."
The scene goes black, then fades into blue, showing blueprints of an armed spacecraft. "Wernar Noah began work on a new orbital weapons spacecraft with several other nations. Being called a violation of space treaties and a new threat to replace Nuclear Proliferation, the UN demanded that the project be shutdown immediately. As a result, Wernar's chief military ,official, Kacper Cohen, was fired from their ranks. Kacper, being the leader of armed terrorists, began establishing an independent "Federation of USEA," proclaiming that it was time to "Create a new world order to replace the UN. We must create a new, powerful, united front to save our planet from oblivion." It was all propaganda no doubt, and the UN began simultaneous operations to suppress the Usean army's invasion."
-SORTIE ORDER-
"We'll continue this later."
