[Archive] World-Map Changelog/Lore Announcements

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Important Update

I am reforming / rehauling the lore, which means total relook into every singular factor. Your voices are being heard and I will stop at nothing to ensure that you are given a proper, well structured character developmental process to follow without breaking your immersion. Dates are being changed, events are being shifted around and some stuff will be taken away from context. I am working with the Tev's and our own to ensure that we sand down the hard edges and outright create something of visual representation of "Best of Both Worlds".

Thank you.​

 

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Important Update
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As some may have noticed - the global map has changed. This means that everything you guys have seen thus far is now reduced towards the one thing I've always wanted to do: The in-character knowledge pool. So, due to the current circumstances, this means that most of the icons we know and love are removed. While cities and remarkable areas are kept due to characters having an embodiment of knowledge from where-ever they may have been relocated from, it now means that everything needs to be rediscovered through In-Character. The reason I did this was because of:

1. Events​
2. You place your character on map after finding a way to successfully be placed from the main server when it arrives. Won't be possible until the time is right or until I give the go-ahead for it.​
3. To avoid metagame. This will serve for a means for people to go in any direction when this is actually in a usable state. One of the biggest concerns was allowing everyone to see what's going on in the background - well I've taken that into account.​

So in the future, feel free to look around. You can still produce submissions and I can take a look at them, but depending on what they may be, I may have to hide them.

Cities and zones are the best commonly known things because characters come from many parts of the world. Word of mouth spread quite often thanks to mass relocations.

Oh, I almost forgot:

Added to City 17 is TerraNova's "District 47". I'll add the Liquidators if they survive the chaos and other things should there be a potential outcome.

 

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Boy has it been a few months since my previous update. Now with the release of the server, I can obviously get back to what I've always wanted to do.

So, what's the UPDATES that are most recent?:

- Storyline Setting & Common Knowledge -
"A History of Bob | Enlightenment Historical Bulletin #001"
"City 40 | 'The Twin City'"
"Medigel (Biogel)"
"CITY 39 - MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA"

- Ambiguous Details -
"Venomous Headcrab"
"Caledonian coille"
"City 8, District 52 | The Lost Endeavor"

- Legends & Rumours -
... Find out ...

- Server Update -

[Player Activity] City Twenty Four changed from STABLE to UNSTABLE due to the actions of the players in game.
[Player Activity] The fate of Terminal Six is largely uncertain...
[Event Chain] - 'DX-509' has become active in City Twenty Four.​

 

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- Locational Setting -

South Eastern Europe
Industrial Seventeen removed from Constanta, merged with City Seventeen in Varna with updated description.
Combine Depot established within Constanta's ports.
Additional OCIN Relay Station applied.
Transitional Entry Arrays added East of City Twenty Seven (lore explanation - travelling to different sectors through official Combine routes contain their own unique checkpoints, following through with the second recorded conversation with a citizen about being the only ones on a specific train.)

Western Europe
Most European cities changed from UNREST or UNSTABLE to the latter status or to STABLE (less rebellious and destructive activity)

Central Asia
Installation 22 added. (Combine installation protecting an OCIN Secondary Hub in the Xinjiang province and WIP)

Eastern Asia
City Twenty Five (Pyongyang) changed from UNSTABLE to UNREST.​

 

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- Locational Setting -

South America
City Six added with full description and layout.

Central-Southern Europe
City Thirty Two given a full layout.
Weather Controller added at Pisa.

- Factions -
Overwatch forces: "Thirty First (C6)" and "Gladius (C32)" added.
Civil Protection given different names, HAMMER 4-4 (C32) and SIERRA 7-4 (C6) added.​

 

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- Locational Setting -

South-Eastern Europe
District Forty Seven within City Seventeen has had a plethora of updates.​

 

[Atle]

We've restructured the lore section with new lore sections to help separate and clarify lore pieces

 

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Given that I'm getting back on track with this after sleeping on it for more than a century, here are the following updates:

- Locational Setting -

South America
One additional point of interest in the area.

Southern Europe
One additional point of interest in the area.

Western Europe
The Caledonian Coille has effectively doubled in size.
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[SHORT STORIES EVENT SERIES: DARK COAST]
[During the opening phases of the Resonance Cascade, a flight of British Airlines was immediately brought out of the sky after suffering from a major malfunction. Not everyone survived the crash, and survivors eventually sought shelter. When they realised they were not alone, they gave chase to a bound servant of the Nihilanth intent on causing additional disruption to the planet. The players let it escape through an artificially created Portal Storm, causing a chain reaction across most of Scotland over the coming years of the Resonance Cascade which would have immobilised most of the country into a great landmark of unnatural, but deadly beauty...]

See that above? The actions of what you decide to partake in our server events may have drastic changes to how the world is perceived, whether it's in the past, present, or future, given if it's a legitimate calling to it. And yes, I know I have to make the world more populated with places like the Coille, the Cog, Outlands etc cause Earth feels super empty atm.

Asia
Multiple points of interest added.
BEHEMOTH, an incredibly powerful core-mining region in Southern India has been added.

Central America
One point of interest added.

Australia
One point of interest added.

Africa
One point of interest added.

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- EXPEDITIONS -
"ASPERA" added in the North-East of City Twenty Four - a Civil Protection expeditionary event.
More to arrive when more events / expeditions are completed.

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I'm really sorry I haven't been updating this considering I haven't touched this for a while - I know a fair deal of you are really interested to both take interest in server lore and also wanting to have an impact on it. To mention, expeditions will be coming to take their place on Willard that will allow players to do more than just chilling in City Twenty Four.

Our City RP will always been the primary hub, but as the server gets furtherly more stable, there will be plenty of opportunity for you all to start showing up on my world map and make your marks on the world. It'll always start off small, and that's expected. There is no rushing this, though. Got a lot more to do than just this ATM

Have a nice day.​

 

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- Locational Setting -

Western Europe

City Twenty Four has an updated to its Eastern part of the city with a depot, and two expeditions along with it.

- EXPEDITIONS -
"ASPERA" expeditions added in two different sections of the Eastern Fringes. Details can be found there. Still need to update the participants roster... lots of Combine players, that day.​

 

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- Locational Setting -

Northern Africa

The River Nile in Egypt has gotten a little update regarding an agricultural zone.
They've also gotten their own Combine outfit of the Military-Arm Arteria.

Western Europe

The "Men of Mann" was added a good while ago, though this wasn't documented. It is now.
The "eternal storm" was added ontop of Italy above the failed weather project of PISA. Wasn't documented, is now.

Greenland

We decided to show some previously hidden content that used to be visible. The Liberation Front (a sect of Lambda) is set up.
The Military-Arm Arteria have an added outpost, there.

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I'm well aware progress regarding the face of lore is somewhat like a beached whale until it gets shoved back into the ocean to swim freely, though we're currently busy with more important matters elsewhere. For me, personally, that is studying and managerial. I'm still fully confident we can make a vibrant looking and fresh map that will be able to be interacted with in a proper manner, though right now - some things take heavy priority over others.

Enjoy the additions.​

 

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Big update, today!

- Locational Setting -

Western Europe​

1. Industrial Twenty Four has been added to the map - it's connected directly with City Twenty Four.​
2. An abandoned upstart city that was the first variation of "City Twenty One" can be seen in ruins at Lyon.​
3. A River Den has been added to the Lac Leman in Switzerland.​
4. The "Dover Hard-Light Bridge" has been added as a means to cross the English Channel between Dover in the UK and Calais in France.​
5. Combine operations in the south of France within a great, large crater are shown to be active.​
6. Nachtigallen resistance is now visible.​
7. Vortigaunt Tribals located at the right hand side of Bern.​

Eastern Europe
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1. Chernobyl has been disclosed.​
2. City Fifty Three, Kiev, has been added.​

Southern Europe
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1. City Forty Eight, Malta, is finally completed.​
2. City Thirty Two reduced to an unstable setting. With the loss of its fanatical militias by the passing of the Sectorial Administration of Sector Twenty Four, the local administration of Rome sees a rough challenge ahead.​
3. The "ETERNAL STORM" was deleted, as it was a false representation of what the weather controller project's unpredictability can be.​

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To also point something out, our lore submissions are rolling again. If you want to contribute to our setting and universe of HL2RP on our world map, you can head to the lore submissions area and try your luck. We have a great deal of information presented on how to do so which are found in the lore sections of the forums.

Cheers and enjoy. ​

 

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The 'Tyranny' Update
"It was never enough to satisfy the masses, so we took to satisfying ourselves... and that was what sealed our fate - our malevolent destruction."

General:​

- New map icons. (Credits to @Aspect™)
- Sector & Citadel capital designations.
- Abandoned cities... explore the past.
- Characters are now appearing on lore map.
And more!

Locational Setting

Western Europe
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- Delmond Blake added in City Two.
- Lars Martin Lund added in City Eighteen.
- Laurentius Heartwick added to City Twenty Four
- Míguel Primo Navarro added to City Fifty Nine
- Ruben McGuire added to City Thirty One
- Rory O'Rooney added to City Nine
- City Forty Seven added as an abandoned city.
- "The Stem", added in City Twenty Four...
- City Two has been overwhelmed with the failed counter-attack Operation labelled "London Bridge"... the supply depot has fallen under the hands of "HMMLR" (Her Majesty's Most Loyal Resistance).

Eastern Europe​

- The Combine in City Three have been utterly devastated in multiple assaults by the Soviet Reclamation Front. The Combine have withdrawn past the dome and further into the city limits.

Southern Europe​

- Silvio Casto added in City Thirty Two.
- City Forty Four added as an abandoned city.
- City Seventy Seven added as an abandoned city.

Middle East​

- City Sixty One added as an abandoned city.
- City Seven added as an abandoned city.
- City Fifteen added as an abandoned city.

West Asia
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- BEHEMOTH properly marked on the map (similar depot icons).
- Xinjiang Basin added as a wasteland.
- Installation 22 added within the Xinjiang Basin.

Western American Coast
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- The malignancy spreads...
- The Genesis Pit has been revealed within the middle of the XMZ.

 

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The 'Despotic' Update
"Why are they silent? Nobody has heard a whisper in more than a few months... What does it mean?"


REFORM:

Soviet Reclamation Front rewritten regarding City Three.
"HMLR" added, reformed from its previous setting in City Two.


Locational Setting

Western Europe

Multiple new areas available for expeditions and events.

The USA

American Wastelands updated with new description (player made).
New threat in the Xenian Malignancy Zone.

Eastern Europe

City Three updated with new borders.
Icons shifted and / or renamed.
New event icon explaining what occurred.


Many more, probably too many to count around the place. Go have a look, it's been a while since I've last updated this.
Remember to take part in events to have a major impact on server storylines. x)​

 

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The 'Rising Sun' Update
"The Combine's Planetary Research Directive is ultimately a force attempting to do good things for humanity... at the expense of everyone else, because it has no other choice. Most of the time."
~DOCTOR DRAKK SANCHEZ

(Lore Submissions will be looked at, soon. The Creation Team has been getting itself in order along with Short Stories.)

City Eight gets the look everyone wants it to be.
City Twenty Four is dwindling.
City Sixteen is expanding, and fractured in the process.
City Three shows a usual status quo, but it appears it's about to break.
City Thirty-Two has seen something completely abhorrent.
... City Two? It got a face-lift?!
City One is waking up.

--- If you want to read the updated texts in full, you'll need to click on icons and various influence areas on the world map. ---
--- You should see a === MARCH 2018 === part added onto the listed zones. ---

Locational Setting

Western Europe

City Two has its borders entirely redone. With the fighting coming to a literal end, there still is a major amount of tension found within London... it's no longer critical, but the situation is still not looking good. Thousands of City 24 residents still remain in London, trapped in the siege as the City 2 Reconstruction Effort fell through due to rampant infighting.

Rome's Bureau of Enlightenment reports legions of joint City 32 - City 49 troops closing in on Westminster to relieve the besieged London.

City Twenty Four is dealing with an internal crisis. Never has it shed so much of its skin-layer, and the re-architectural designs have proven to be rather fatal. Suffice to say, this city is still stable...ish. The Grand Reconstruction Effort ushered in by the Genevan Administration has failed. Many structures lay in a perpetual state of delayed construction, and will crumble in time. Displaced by the Reconstruction, many are forced to remain in the slum-housing districts, which expands greatly with the disrepair of the City. Sanctions against the underclass have tightened. Heartwick's fight against anti-civil behavior causes many to go hungry.

City Thirty-Two has seen Casto dead. Casca has taken control, and a new face of Futurism on the rise...

The Global Administration is waking up, and has its eyes set on Western Europe for complete and total compliance. The Regency is about to end...

The Political Militias are in a casted shadow of serious doubt.

The Golden Brigade of Greece has been ordered to Rome. Friend, or foe?

Multiple events were added since the previous update regarding expeditions and such activities from the main server translated to the event server.

America

City Sixteen has been updated by RogueSynapse. Following his posts, we've ensured that the imagery "fits" his description of current events. The expansion of his city has came with some very dire consequences.

If you hear Glory, Glory, Hallelujah... the Americans are making moves. Patriots are appearing in multiple locations around City One.

Speaking of City One, the Combine are slowly fighting back the infestation, and regions have expanded. The US will slowly start to play a bigger role in lore of the community.

Eastern Europe

City Three has seen the conflict escalate, and die down again. Both sides are extremely spent in their resources, and everyone's back to square one. The SRF must deal with internal dispute, while the Combine need to revitalise their Administration, or watch as Moscow falls apart.

Africa

City Forty got something new, the Black Pyramids of Giza, turned into something rather abysmal through the actions of "Our Benefactors"...

Asia

The biggest update of them all, City Eight has been mapped appropriately. Everything is detailed according to what we've heard and seen of City Eight over the previous few years, and it's proven to be a spectacle. The Short Stories "Rising Sun" has been updated on the "DAITOSHI" Influence Point on City Eight as something that can be fully read.

ESIC's made an "explosive" return in City Eight, and are currently feuding with splinters of their own members, supported by Lambda.

Blacksite "TARTARUS" is placed in the Siberian Exclusion Zone, given a portal storm is currently active bringing very strange, other-worldly horrors not native to Xen. The Combine are tasking very important forces to deal with this as much as possible. An MAA force known as "Zlatoust" has been established after an expedition to investigate this area in Siberia.

Antartica

Farthest in the south, we see activity is rumoured. From who is anyone's best guess.​

 

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THE 'UNCLE SAM' UPDATE


"I WANT YOU... TO CREATE GOOD LORE FOR A CHANGE."



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OKAY. It's that time, I finally did what I had to do and got shit organised properly for server narrative. The United States just got some love on the world map and it's looking spectacular. Time to update what's been done, as more is yet to come to prop up the Central-Southern and Latin Americas:

Locational Setting


Continental US / Central & Southern America / Greenland
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The Combine are initiating a sphere of expansion into the deemed American South. With that, comes two new fledgling outpost cities in Miami and New Orleans. The devastation brought upon by the portal storms has left Florida a hellscape for shell-ridden Xenian creatures and aqautic, lovecraftian horrors to pit themselves against a rebuilding of society in the area. Natural disasters and floodscape hazards continue to wreck havoc on the region while rogue trading networks sprout upward as both new citizens of the Combine descend into the abyss. Unknown tribes, shore pirates and resistance fighters spring into revealing over a period of time. New Orleans faces exactly that problem, as devastating portal storms wrecked havoc on the natural landscape turning it into swamp and bog. The North American Quarantine Zone (previously Ground Zero) was fixed of its informational errors and new Combine facilities appeared to show their true form. It is clear that the American Wastelands always had more than meets the eyes. The Xenian Malignance Zone also gains more love as it grew in strength, with various pieces of information now reaching a public highlight, waiting for members of the Creation Team and playerbase to look into the dread of the West Coast and the Central Midlands.

Canada & Alaska up in the Northern Continent have been given additional information and propping as to what's transpiring in the near-abandoned regions, where the Combine deforests Quebec for much needed wood supplies. City Thirty also gets its new City Administrator, housed in the former White House of Washington D.C. - surrounded in multiple regions by the Patriots who are also appearing more and more frequent. Reformation civil centres and railway networks (MORE TO COME WORLDWIDE FOR TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS!) will show quicker ways in which expeditions and transit routes can be followed, allowing events to be given higher boosts in transitional quality for when we do them.

New York has a new face to it, along with the majority of all American cities in the lorefront being subject to societal change. They also have well designed zones with each part being unique, instead of big, blue blobs. Even the MAA got some love at West Point with Victor Company - as a much needed rewrite bolstered its much needed clarification for existence.

City Sixty Three was added in Colombia as a very fine addition to propping up Latin America as we start propping the area up and revealing the mystery by /just a little bit/. New Mexico was also given a rewrite along with the Genesis Pit in the XMZ.

The Liberation Front destroyed the MAA outpost in Greenland after fierce fighting in the arctic. Oh well.

Europe
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Geneva has seen a lot of activity recently, given the circumstances of various expeditions taken part by players, the Hadron Collider has been spawned on the world map, protected by a great portion of very well fortified Alien Grunts. The resistance group known as "THETA" has been revealed - a group of scientists willing to partake in assisting and housing refugees from the Combine. Multiple expeditions have been labelled on the region and archived appropriately.

Camp Geneva has been added in the Swiss Alps, home of the Military-Arm-Arteria in the region.

Geneva's food crisis is over and everything can be found about that on the Dark Event's forum thread.

City Seventeen has been given an update in its industrial sector after the i17 event chain.

Scandinavia
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City Sixty Two of Turku has been given an update about recent events occurring in the region.

Africa
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The Scorched Hive has been added onto the area and the NRAU icons have been updated appropriately regarding the end of their conflict. The zone of conflict in question has been renamed to The Silent Valley.

Asia
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Facilities in the area propped up around the Xinjiang Basin. Its purpose is unclear.

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Additional lore acceptances & informational posts:

CITY ADMINISTRATOR George S. Olson, City Thirty - "The Lobbyist"

How much is one willing to sell their country for their own benefit? A question which George S. Olson made clear through his answer. He is a corrupt, slimy criminal whose only agenda was and still is to consolidate power to him and any of his loyal goons. Upon the Virginian side of the...

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CITY 1 - New York City Re-Work

Standard Information: Status: Unstable Recent Events: Brooklyn Commune Manifest & The Rise of Caine Background: New York City always has been a major city in American History and a vital part of the Eastern United States' operations. During the opening years of the 21st Century, following the...

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City 63 - The Unity Junta of Columbia

Standard Information: Status: Stable Recent Events: Gloria a Margolis! Background: Bogotá, Columbia was an easily overlooked City in the early 21st century. Despite the fact that Columbia itself had been going through low-intensity political turmoil and conflict, the country itself still...

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City 30 - Washington D.C

Standard Information: CONTAINS CITADEL + SECTOR CAPITAL Status: Stable Background: Washington, D.C. In the years before The Seven Hour War it was a city of marble and the beating heart of American politics. The American superpower ultimately ran from Washington D.C and its surrounding suburbs...

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City 42 - Anchorage & Nearby Facilities

Standard Information: Status: Stable (Summer) Unstable (Winter) Recent Events: Xenian Malignancy Growth Approaches Background: The City of Anchorage always has been a relatively quiet City. It's position on the frontier of civilization in the cold Alaskan wilderness resulted in a small...

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The Scorched Hive

In the heart of the Scorched Dunes lies a fairly large, growing Antlion Hive. The Antlions have borrowed deep into the sand and into the sandstone, resulting in vast yet thin cave systems in Northern Africa that, while not very deep, are infact very wide and long. The Antlions in Northern...

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[ARCHIVED] The American Tweaks, Edits, Additions, and Reworks

This is all minor reworks. This thread can be followed and then discarded. SECTION ONE: ALASKA & CANADA Change #1: Change the Alaskan Wilderness shape to something akin to the map. I realized how bad it looks. Basically just make it look good. Change #2: Add the 'Combine Sol. IV Research...

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Miami/Florida Lore

One of the more well known areas of the State of Florida is none other than Urban protection Center Outpost 284. Located in the heart of Miami, the protection center houses approximately 600 Denizens and less than 200 Civil Protection Officers. Outpost 284 is a collection of pre-war...

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The American South

The American South is a large section of sparsely populated land in North America. The American South, similar to the American Wastelands, has been largely abandoned due to the fact that common portal storms and a growing Xenian threat result in a lack of any major settlements for the most part...

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WAR DECLARED AGAINST BERLIN GOVERNMENT!

WAR TODAY IN BERLIN AS OUTER BERLIN DECLARES INDEPENDENCE FROM THE MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT At approximately 3:30PM Union Standard Time, the Berlin Government sent a now declassified signal to a nearby relay station for emergency aid. Moments later, we received reports that the outer Berlin regions...

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Report - CITY 62 - TURKU | 13/01/2018

On January 13th, 2018, 19:38. The last departure checks were performed aboard Universal Union Naval Vessel; #04 'Lyhty' ( Designation: Icebreaker). The ships objective was to clear way to City 35; Copenhagen for Universal Union Naval Vessel #07 'KP' ( Designation: ********** ). Which was to...

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Case File - The Patriots

Status: Active Threat: High. Moderately Organized. Allied with: N/A In the days and months following the Seven Hour War, the scattered remnants of the United States Military alongside a plethora of citizens wishing to fight began to organize. What came of this effort was The Patriots, a band of...

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Camp Geneva Meiringen Air Base

Camp Geneva Overwatch-Conscript-Arm Base. est. 241 km from City 24. Formerly known as Meiringen air base Camp Geneva as it's known under combine occupation is a combine military installation nestled in the swiss alps formerly used by the Swiss air-force before the war the base serves as a...

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Thanks for reading. ​