Servants of War: Global Conflict

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Background
The year is 2025, and the world is in an unstable situation. There has been a military coup in China, and the president has been put under house arrest. the new government vows to reclaim "historic Chinese territories", including Taiwan, Mongolia, northern Vietnam, and northeastern India.

Meanwhile in Russia, a far-left political party known as the Organisation for the Re-establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, known in Russian as the Организация для воссоздания Союза Советских Социалистических Республик, abbreviated as the OVSSSR, has been on the rise. The party is said to be incredibly fierce supporters of communism, and are incredibly hostile to other parties. The Russian government is concerned that the party is organising a coup d'état, and has made it illegal. The OVSSSR claims that "there will be retaliations".

Part 1: Road to War
In March, the Russian president was delivering a speech in Grozny, Chechnya when an OVSSSR sniper barely missed a shot on him. The FSB security forces were immediately deployed via Mi-8MTV-5 helicopters and clashed with the party, but the OVSSSR escaped with few casualties. A civil war broke out against the government and the OVSSSR, the latter of which immediately conquered sparsely-populated regions such as central Siberia and the Russian far-east.

2 months later, Chinese Admiral You Meng, a key member of the new Chinese leadership, has conspired to worsen relations between Taiwan and Japan, both of who are enemies of China. He plans to use the divide-and-conquer tactic pioneered by Great Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries and make it look like Taiwan is attacking Japan. To do this, he ordered the hijacking of the JS Suzutsuki, a Japanese Akizuki-class destroyer with a crew of 200. The PLA Navy hijackers were disguised in ROC Navy (Taiwanese Navy) uniforms to trick the Japanese into believing that Taiwan is responsible for this incident. Following the incident, Japan blamed Taiwan for being "unabashedly hostile" against the former and a resolution was conceived in the UN Security Council, but it was vetoed by China. However, one of the hijackers was an agent of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) and was undercover to reveal secrets about the actions of the PLA. The agent was named Seung Jun-Bin, but his alias for the mission was Su Junning. After the operation, he relayed the information of the incident to the South Korean government via text messaging, but was caught doing so and was imprisoned in Vladivostok, a port in the Russian far-east administered by the OVSSSR.

The South Korean government found out that Seung was missing, and asked its US and UK counterparts to aid in his recovery. The US government had contacts with a defector within the OVSSSR named Andrei, who told them of Seung's location and the fact that Admiral You Meng has ties with the OVSSSR and is behind the rapid success of the party, as he is sending military aid to it. The Delta Force was then deployed via UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters into Vladivostok from one of its secret outposts in Sapporo, northern Japan. The strike team engaged OVSSSR personnel outside their Vladivostok headquarters, and soon infiltrated the facility. Once inside, they found Seung being held at gunpoint by an OVSSSR lieutenant and being used as a human shield, while surrounded by other OVSSSR personnel. Suddenly, an AH-64 Apache helicopter blew up the ceiling of the facility and fired at the OVSSSR soldiers. This allowed for an effective distraction for Delta Force to execute the lieutenant, and they took Seung with them to the LZ, from where another convoy of UH-60s came to pick them up.

The US, UK and South Korean governments launched a manhunt for Admiral You Meng. Andrei gave away the information that You Meng's safe-house is in Yekaterinburg, and the SAS got on the roof of the safe-house via AS365 Dauphin helicopters. They eliminated the OVSSSR guards stationed there, and proceeded to You Meng's office cubicle, but found out that he is not there. Eventually, Andrei relayed the information via an earpiece that there is a secret underground bunker below the building that contains intel about the OVSSSR. The SAS then typed in the password for an emergency door to open, and then a staircase going downstairs was revealed. The SAS then cleared the bunker of OVSSSR guards and located a computer in You Meng's living room. They looked for information inside it and found out that You Meng had departed in a captured Airbus A380 for Sevastopol in Crimea. However, You Meng was still en route, and the SAS tracked down the A380 above the Black Sea and hijacked it. The plane, chock-full of OVSSSR members, was cleared and the SAS found You Meng, but with a bullet wound in his right temple and a QSZ-92 pistol in his dead hands. The SAS made an emergency landing in Bucharest, Romania and via an airstrip they went back to Britain. You Meng is already dead, and the information he had about the OVSSSR died with him.

Part 2: All-out War
By June, the Kremlin was surrounded by OVSSSR assailants. Inside the Kremlin were the remnants of the FSB security forces, the president, and his staff. Eventually, the OVSSSR entered the Kremlin and wreaked havoc. In the nick of time, though, a Boeing Chinook HC Mk6 helicopter piloted by the SAS came to rescue all of them. The government and the FSB hastily retreated to the LZ and were picked up. However, there were enemy AA batteries and RPG-wielding militants across the city attempting to shoot down the helicopter. Fortunately, the Chinook's passengers eliminated those threats via the M2HB machine guns aboard it, and they evacuated to Tallinn, Estonia, from where they flew to Britain and the Russian leadership-in-exile resided in the Russian embassy in London.

The Chinese government was the first to recognise the new OVSSSR leadership of Russia, especially because the coup was sponsored by it. Soon thereafter, China annexed Mongolia, and Russia invaded Central Asia and the Caucasus with little resistance. The actions were condemned by the international community, but the condemnation did nothing to prevent it from happening.

Russia's attempts at reclaiming land went as far as invading Ukraine, Finland, and the Baltic states (which were part of NATO). This caused NATO to declare war on Russia. China retaliated and declared war on NATO. Egypt, by then a Russian client state, declared war on Israel. China attacked northeastern India, and Pakistan (an ally of China) attacked Kashmir in northern India, prompting NATO to send its forces to assist India fight of two different enemies. China had also initiated skirmishes in the Taiwan Strait and had invaded southeast Asia and South Korea under a week and had already started bombing runs in northern Australia, but the RAAF counterattacked and pushed them off Australia. The Third World War had begun, and the UN was disbanded, creating absolute chaos in the countries affected.

In the Middle East, Egypt went on the offensive, but suffered heavy casualties. Israel counterattacked and pushed the former all the way to the Suez canal. Russia quickly conquered a huge portion of Europe, with Germany and Italy being the frontier outposts of NATO. From Austria, Russian paratroopers parachuted into the Italian alps after heavy bombing raids conducted there to weaken NATO defences. The operation was a success for Russia, which eventually conquered the entire Italian peninsula. Now having access to the Mediterranean, Russia sent reinforcements to Egypt, which was fighting Israel. The IDF spotted a Russian Yasen-class attack submarine off the coast of Port Said, but hijacked it and used the missiles aboard it to destroy Egyptian military installations within the cities. With their supplies in the Mediterranean from Russia being cut off, Egypt surrendered.

Meanwhile in India, the Indo-NATO coalition have pushed back China in Operation Juliett Hotel back to the original borders and India has pushed back Pakistan all the way to Islamabad. NATO meanwhile launched an amphibious landing in Karachi, southern Pakistan. Due to Pakistan's inability to fight a war on two fronts, it surrendered. In east Asia, the USMC launched an invasion of the Korean peninsula under Operation Sierra Kilo and established beachheads. Taiwan's navy was significantly weakened, and it was in the brink of collapse when the US Navy sent its aircraft carrier the USS Gerald R. Ford to ward off the PLA Navy. Eventually, the aircraft carrier even launched a siege on Shenzhen, a major industrial centre in southern China and its planes bombed industrial buildings around the city. The PLA Air Force was hurriedly deployed, but were no match for the US Navy.

Part 3: The Climax
Russia and China had conspired to attack Alaska via first attacking the Aleutian Islands from the Gulf of Anadyr in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. However, the US Pacific Fleet would be alerted, so Russia launched an EMP wave in which the entire Pacific Fleet was disabled. Therefore, the Aleutian Islands were easily taken. So was Hawaii, in which Russian bombers brought significant casualties to American aircraft carriers stationed there. Inherently, the crew were sitting ducks. The USA was startled.

The UK government proposed that for this to end, the Russian leadership must be displaced. The SAS was deployed via HAHO jump into Moscow. The team, disguised as security guards, walked inside the Kremlin and went inside the power room and killed the engineers with suppressed weapons so no one can view them through CCTV cameras. They then proceeded to plant PE-4 bombs across the Kremlin, and killed any guards they encountered. After their objective was met, they went to the LZ, where a defector named Vladimir came to pick them up via an Mi-8MTV-5 helicopter into Sweden, a neutral country. After 10 seconds in the helicopter, they detonated the PE-4s via a remote detonator. The Kremlin went up in smoke and was demolished completely, taking the Russian leadership with it. From Sweden, the SAS flew back to Britain. With the Russian leadership dead, the Russian forces surrendered because their high command was gone, making them sitting ducks. China still posed a threat to the USA, and the latter had to act fast to end this war swiftly.

Striking from their beachheads in southern Korea, the USMC launched Operation Charlie's Delta, a full scale ground invasion of China from the east. The operation went smoothly, mostly because Chinese forces were spread thin, from Port Moresby in southeast Asia to Ürümqi in northwestern China, a distance of 8,431 km. In under a month, Beijing was cornered. Out of desperation, the Chinese government launched a hydrogen bomb in the capital that is intended to self-destruct as soon as it launches as a suicide measure. However, the Chinese government was captured and forced to give the abort codes, and Delta Force was deployed to the ICBM facility. The facility was chock-full of PLA military remnants and Delta Force faced heavy resistance. The operation, however, was a success and the missile wasn't launched.

The Chinese leadership was imprisoned in an International Military Tribunal for China and members of it were given a prison sentence for 20 years. Taiwan was given control of all of China. The Korean peninsula was reunited as a single Korea. A new Kremlin was erected in Moscow, and the Russian government became the same centre-right government it was before the OVSSSR coup d'état and the Third World War. Israel also got back the Sinai peninsula. As far as world wars go, the third one was rather short; it lasted only 3 months, from June to September 2025, and more importantly, the world reentered an era of relative peace and stability.

Part 1: Road to War

 * 1. "Spetsnaz"
 * Grozny, Chechen Republic, Southern Russia
 * March 2025
 * Sergeant Sergei Vasilyev
 * Federal Security Service (Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации, Abbreviation: FSB)
 * Objective: Protect the Russian president from OVSSSR militants.
 * Starting Weapons: AK-12 (Primary), PL-15 (Secondary)
 * 2. "False Flag"
 * Ryukyu Islands, East China Sea
 * May 2025
 * Agent Seung Jun-Bin (Undercover as Corporal Su Junning)
 * South Korean National Intelligence Service (Undercover as People's Liberation Army Navy)
 * Objective: Under the orders of Adm. You Meng, hijack the Japanese destroyer, the JS Suzutsuki as part of a false-flag operation. Report the incident to the South Korean government after the operation.
 * Starting Weapons: T91 Carbine (Primary), T75 Pistol (Secondary)
 * 3. "Extraction"
 * Vladivostok, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia
 * May 2025
 * Operator David Anderson
 * Delta Force
 * Objective: Extract Seung Jun-Bin from OVSSSR captivity and take him back to Seoul.
 * Starting Weapons: M4A1 (Primary), P320 (Secondary)
 * 4. "Raid"
 * Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, West-central Russia
 * June 2025
 * Lieutenant Oliver Smith
 * Special Air Service
 * Objective: Raid You Meng's safe-house in Yekaterinburg and capture him.
 * Starting Weapons: L85A2 (Primary), Glock 17 (Secondary)
 * 5. "You Can't Run Forever"
 * 10,668 m above the Black Sea
 * June 2025
 * Lieutenant Oliver Smith
 * Special Air Service
 * Objective: Hijack You Meng's A380 aeroplane and capture him once and for all.
 * Starting Weapons: L22A2 (Primary), Glock 17 (Secondary)

Part 2: All-out War

 * 6. "The Last Stand"
 * Moscow, Western Russia
 * June 2025
 * President Yuri Smirnov
 * President of the Russian Federation
 * Objective: With the aid of the FSB, defend yourself from the OVSSSR and wait for evacuation.
 * Starting Weapons: Vityaz-SN (Primary), PL-15 (Secondary)
 * 7. "Evacuation"
 * 3,050 m above Moscow, Western Russia
 * June 2025
 * Lieutenant Oliver Smith
 * Special Air Service
 * Objective: Man the M2HB machine gun aboard the Chinook HC Mk6 helicopter and shoot down AA batteries and enemy infantry.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you aboard a helicopter.
 * 8. "Provocations"
 * Taiwan Strait, East China Sea
 * June 2025
 * Ensign Chen Chiahao
 * Republic of China Navy
 * Objective: Manning an FN MAG aboard a Kuang Hua VI-class missile boat, protect the 4 Kee Lung-class destroyers of the ROC Navy.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire level will have you aboard a missile boat.
 * 9. "Invasion"
 * Sino-Indian Border
 * June 2025
 * Subedar Major Rahul Kumar
 * Indian Army
 * Objective: Prevent the Chinese from breaking our defensive line.
 * Starting Weapon: PKP Pecheneg (Primary), FN HP-35 (Secondary)
 * 10. "Desert Warfare"
 * Suez Governorate, Northeastern Egypt
 * June 2025
 * Sergeant Noam Cohen
 * Israeli Defence Forces
 * Objective: In your Merkava Mk IV tank, engage the Egyptian forces as part of our counterattack.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you manning the main gun of a tank.
 * 11. "Bombing Raid"
 * 10,668 m above Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
 * June 2025
 * Flying Officer William Jones
 * Royal Australian Air Force
 * Objective: Flying your F/A-18 Hornet, shoot down Chinese bombers above Darwin and put an end to the bombing raids.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you piloting a jet fighter.
 * 12. "Us on One Side, Them on the Other"
 * Austro-Italian Border
 * June 2025
 * OR-5 Hans Schulz
 * NATO Task Force 703
 * Objective: Shoot down Russian paratroopers attempting to cross the alpine border between Austria and Italy. Watch out for HALO jumpers; they could enter our side of the border before we realise it.
 * Starting Weapons: MG5 (Primary), USP 9mm (Secondary)
 * 13. "Submarines at the Dock"
 * Port Said Governorate, Northeastern Egypt
 * July 2025
 * Sergeant Noam Cohen
 * Israeli Defence Forces
 * Objective: Hijack a Russian Yasen-class submarine docked at Port Said and use its missiles to destroy Egyptian military installations across the city.
 * Starting Weapons: IWI X95 (Primary), Jericho 941 (Secondary)
 * 14. "Operation Juliett Hotel"
 * Gangtok, Sikkim, Northeastern India
 * July 2025
 * OR-6 Rahul Kumar
 * Indo-NATO Coalition
 * Objective: Liberate the city of Gangtok in Sikkim, a strategically important area to cut off the Chinese forces stationed in the northeast.
 * Starting Weapons: MCIWS 7.62 (Primary), FN HP-35 (Secondary)
 * 15. "Operation Sierra Kilo"
 * Busan, Southeastern Korean Peninsula
 * July 2025
 * Sergeant Harry McLaughlin
 * United States Marine Corps
 * Objective: Establish beachheads along Busan for a further advancement across Korea.
 * Starting Weapons: M4 Carbine (Primary), M9A3 (Primary)
 * 16. "Steep Terrain"
 * 10,668 km above New Mirpur City, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Northeastern Pakistan
 * July 2025
 * Flying Officer Rajendra Kapoor
 * Indian Air Force
 * Objective: Flying your Su-30MKI, shoot down Pakistani planes and infantry across the skies of Mirpur.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you piloting a jet fighter.
 * 17. "Siege of Shenzhen"
 * 10,668 m above Shenzhen, Guangdong, Southern China
 * July 2025
 * First Lieutenant James Miller
 * United States Air Force
 * Objective: Flying your F-35C, bomb industrial targets along Shenzhen and shoot down enemy fighter planes.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you piloting a stealth bomber.

Part 3: The Climax

 * 18. "Relentless"
 * Moscow, Western Russia
 * August 2025
 * Captain Oliver Smith (Undercover as Captain Dmitry Ivanov)
 * Special Air Service (Undercover as Federal Security Service [Russian: Федеральная служба безопасности Российской Федерации], Abbreviation: FSB)
 * Objective: Disguised as an FSB officer, plant PE-4 bombs across the Kremlin and take out any guards you see.
 * Starting Weapons: Vityaz-SN Suppressed (Primary), PL-15 Suppressed (Secondary)
 * 19. "Operation Charlie's Delta"
 * Harbin, Heilongjiang, Northeastern China
 * August 2025
 * Sergeant Harry McLaughlin
 * United States Marine Corps
 * Objective: Driving your M1A2 Abrams, participate in a full-scale invasion of China.
 * Starting Weapons: None; the entire mission will have you controlling a tank.
 * 20. Last Resort
 * Beijing, Northern China
 * September 2025
 * Operator David Anderson
 * Delta Force
 * Objective: Infiltrate a Chinese ICBM facility and prevent a hydrogen bomb from going off.
 * Starting Weapons: M4A1 (Primary), P320 (Secondary)