Amihan Russel incidents

Amihan Russel incidents

Private military helicopters during the multinational intervention in South Oceanica.
Duration	2015 - present
Location	Worldwide, but mainly in the Southern Furukuran Sea, Musgorocia & Afurika
Outcome	Ongoing
Casualties
Many civilians, light Nifonese causalities

The Amihan Russel incidents are a collection of events involving, either directly or indirectly, the billionaire Amihan Russel. While the roots of these events stretch back to the 1960s, it is only in the 2010s that they escalated significantly.

Background

Logo of Council 13.

In October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis saw tensions between the United States of America and the Soviet Union reach a peak, when then US President John F. Kennedy ordered the US Navy to blockade Cuba in order to prevent the Soviets from continuing construction of nuclear missile bases on America's doorstep. Though the threat of nuclear war subsided after Khrushchev and Kennedy agreed to withdraw nuclear forces from Cuba and Turkey respectively, there was a general desire for such a dangerous situation not to arise again in the future. While a nuclear hotline was established between Washington D.C and Moscow, but this was deemed insufficient by many to ensure lasting world peace.

The eccentric American billionaire Andrew Wolf met with Colonel Yuri Ivanovitch Volginenko, a KGB officer to discuss this problem. While neither really wielded any political power, they mutually expressed disdain for the American and Soviet governments. Both Wolf and Volginenko agreed to work together to found a secret organisation designed to ensure world peace at any cost, using unconventional methods to steer humanity away from the risk of nuclear war. Volginenko was eventually promoted to the rank of General, he managed to persuade several other KGB officers and CPSU officials to join their cause. They were also joined by Li Jintao, a high-ranking communist Chinese politician who grew concerned about the worsening Sino-Soviet split. Wolf recruited several fellow businessmen to join the organisation. Volginenko and Wolf agreed that thirteen of the most influential individuals would establish a council to direct the organisation's international activities, thus forming what became known as Council 13 (C13). Influencing world events proved harder then was expected, however. While initially trying to restrain themselves from acts of violence, members and proxies of C13 began to increasingly resort to questionable and unsavoury tactics to achieve their goals, including coercion, bribery and assassination. In order to finance these activities, members started to involve themselves in international crime. Protests by the original members were silenced with the justification that this behaviour was necessary for the greater good of humanity.

Starting in the 1980s, a new member of the council; a billionaire named Amihan Russel, began to become influential. The original purpose of C13 was exacerbated by President Reagan's escalation of the Cold War, causing the founding members to loose clout. A victim of ethnic cleansing when he was a child, Russel believed that all humans were inherently evil, and that a global police state with the ability to repress human nature was the only way to achieve world peace. When Wolf protested this, Russel had him killed with the help of his mentor, Lucius Morgenstern. Russel took complete control of C13 now that there was nobody to oppose his vision, transitioning away from its original goal of preventing nuclear war and towards becoming the largest criminal organisation in the world.

Over the following decades, C13 evolved and expanded its global operations, successfully implanting its agents in governments all over the world and supporting many non-state actors. Through this, it manufactured crises and false-flag operations, further increasing its influence and power in global affairs. It would not be until the dawn of the new millennium that Russel would find growing resistance to his ambitions.

Timeline

Whaling War

Logo used by the eco-terrorist organisation known as GreenWar.

In December 2016, Russel met with his ally Walter Siemens, head of Siemens Self-Defense Forces, in Kesslerstaadt. Following a brief discussion, Russel concluded that he would need to go beyond exploiting the divisions in third world countries, focusing on undermining the economies of ideologically hostile countries, in particular that of Nifon, by disrupting international sea lanes. Russel planned to do this by exploiting the surge in recruitment in the eco-terrorist organisation GreenWar, who had managed to find a haven in the Babar Islands. He intended to use the mix of foreign volunteers and pirate groups in the area to capture ships flagged by countries with governments that hold indifferent or dismissive attitudes towards so-called 'global warming' and 'climate change'. Russel directed Siemens to travel to the Babar Islands and meet with the climate extremists and pirates in order to fulfil this plan.

--Nathan Redshield--

"It is simple. The third wave is upon us, and the Information Age is making it's steps heard. Alvin Toffler predicted the changes in the global society happening right now. And thus, when we do realize that nation-state is an obsolete institution unable to solve the global problems, our action must be swift and efficient."

— Amihan Russel, The Green Flag Rises

Several days later, the Organized States guided missile destroyer OSS Daniel Inouye (DDG-121) was approached by two pirate skiffs off of the Babar Islands. Initially mistaking the destroyer for a whaling ship, the pirates hastily released a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) and small arms fire at it. The pirates onboard the skiffs then radioed their mother ship; under the command of a Captain Lu Yimu, which was keeping its distance from the Daniel Inouye. The destroyer immediately returned fire at the skiffs with its 127 mm Mark 45 naval gun, obliterating the boats and their pirate crews. Directly afterwards, it detected the looming mother ship and neutralized it with two SM-6 anti-ship missiles. The Daniel Inouye only suffered superficial damage from the engagement, having successfully evaded all but one of the RPGs.

Elsewhere, the Nifon-flagged freighter Kobayashi Maru was being shadowed by the pirate Captain Whalelord; real name Jaques Sparrow, who was using the cover of night to sneak up on the ship. Sparrow ordered two armed skiffs to be dispatched from his mothership to intercept the Kobayashi Maru. The pirates opened fire on the ship's communications equipment first, hindering its ability to call for assistance. Soon afterwards, Sparrow led his men in grappling onto the ship's railings. Within half an hour, the Kobayashi Maru was under his control, and its original crew now Sparrow's prisoners. The pirates set a course for the Babar Islands, the mother ship and freighter following different routes to the same destination in order to throw off anyone who might be tracking them. Shortly after changing course, Sparrow had the Kobayashi Maru's transponder disabled. He then had the ship renamed under the fabricated registration of Terra Promessa.

Before arriving in the Babar Islands, --wip--

Riots in South Oceanica

In March 2017, Stanley Bowden of the right-wing United National Front (UNF) party won the South Oceanican presidential election, sending shockwaves throughout the country. Protests and rioting spread throughout Dwanesbury, the country's capital, with crowds burning down several buildings, destroying cars and setting alight thousands of books related to conservatism and capitalist economics. The rioters were composed of a wide variety of groups opposed to Bowden; feminists, members of the black supremacist organisation Black Rising, transsexuals, homosexuals, climate activists, members of Antifa and furries, to name a few. The demonstrations went on for three days, causing millions of dollars worth of damage and leaving many innocent bystanders badly injured. From the beginning, there were allegations by right-wing media outlets that the protesters were receiving clandestine funding from unknown foreign entities, however these were dismissed as 'conspiracy theories' by mainstream organisers and the political establishment in South Oceanica. At the same time, the media began making unsubstantiated claims that the Nifonese government may have interfered in the election to help Bowden, further aggravating the protesters.

Eventually, the crowd began marching towards Little Kiyosu, the most important hub for the Nifonese community in South Oceanica.

WIP

"We have been forced into an alliance with incompetent fools with no martial knowledge, no true zeal. If we want to succeed, our friends will need a total reorganisation. The Yellows haven't won this battle just yet. Little Kiyosu will fall tomorrow, mark my words, Captain Meyer. Establish a cordon down the road and tell our friends that we are setting up camp on this side of the river for the night. I will be below shortly to address their concerns."

— Gene Karlson, Massive protests against right-wing leader

--insert killdozer--

--spillover into other communities--

--military/PMC intervention--

--aftermath--

Hostile takeover

In late 2017, Nifonese Shogun Maki Kojiro approached Russel's archrival, James Redshield; owner and primary benefactor of the Redshield Foundation, on organising the death of Russel, their common foe. They agreed to meet in Wenchuan three days later to discuss the matter further. Kojiro agreed that, in return for James Redshield getting rid of Russel and his board of directors, Nifon would withdraw all its support from Nashid's reigime in Bashriyya and the government of New Yama while allowing Redshield to treat them as part of their sphere of influence. Kojiro also promised to make sure John Miller's Bronze Serpent private military company would not disturb the operation to kill Russel.

Owing to his work as an intelligence officer before becoming Shogun, Kojiro managed to quickly gain James Redshield's trust, informing Kojiro about his Foundation's Lebenborn eugenics programme. He further claimed that Russel had used the Lebenborn programme to produce a daughter of Gregory Sears named Inga, as well as for his own mind control programme. Redshield also said that Inga's mother had been killed by one of his hitmen, though it had been framed as a suicide, and that he now wanted Inga back to provide a blood transfusion to his dying adoptive brother. James Redshield was lying, however, as he had no adoptive brother. Rather, Inga knew about the Redshield Foundation's cult and mind control activities and had access to many files that her mother had gotten hold of before her death. After this, Redshield revealed that his Foundation had discovered the 'master race' through cracking the human genome, claiming and at the same time warning Kojiro that humans would become obsolete and that transhuman Übermensch would replace them in the future. Redshield left the meeting after this, Kojiro vowing to have him killed once Russel was dealt with.

On 20 September 2017, Amihan Russel held a meeting of his board of directors in the newly reconstructed Babeel Tower in Kesslerstaadt. While the Redshield Foundation paid off the local police force, Charles Redshield; cousin to James and confidant of Russel, smuggled a suitcase with one kilogramme of C4 plastic explosives inside. Four hours into the meeting, Charles left and remotely detonated the explosives from a safe distance, apparently killing Amihan Russel and his entire board of directors.

"We did it cousin, we have successfully put that one-eyed bastard in his place, he is dead. The others in the room were charred from the explosion, his body was recovered but he took a blow to the head from shrapnel. All of his businesses are now under our control, the dog is dead and his food is ours!"

— Charles Redshield, Secret of Conquest

Charles Redshield learns that Russel may have survived.

After the supposed death of Russel, Charles Redshield led a hostile takeover of the Russel Trust and all its subsidiaries. Within days, the Redshield Foundation owned all of Russel's assets, including equipment, personnel and intellectual property. Not long afterwards, Charles received word that the head of the morgue where Russel's body was being kept and several of his assistants were found dead, all having apparently committed suicide. Furthermore, Russel's body had gone missing, supposedly after someone within Kesslerstaadt's police department had leaked its location. Fearing that Amihan Russel may actually be still alive, Charles set out to make sure James Redshield did not find out about this latest development.

In reality, Russel had actually survived the explosion with severe injuries. He was recovered from the morgue by the mysterious Lucius Morgenstern and Abbadon International Solutions leader Miguel Aquinas. Moving him to a secret medical facility in Kesslerstaadt, Russel was put into an induced coma and cutting edge technologies were utilised to reconstruct his body and heal his injuries. Concluding that gaining power through money had failed to realise their dream of a unified world government, Morgenstern began considering other methods for future operations.

Meanwhile, James travelled to his private residence, the Island of Babilono, to inspect the Redshield Foundation's weapons development facility. He retired to Redshield Castle, taking DMT to induce a hallucinogenic experience where he believed he was in contact with the Greek god Prometheus, only for the figure to transform into an angel with twelve wings and a body covered in eyes. James blacked out shortly afterwards, waking up a day later to find himself completely naked. Over the next three weeks, Bashriyya's Nashid, having found out about Kojiro's meeting with James, orchestrated a worldwide campaign against the Redshield Foundation, resulting in the death of at least one family member, Luis Amschel de Redshield. Despite clear links between the perpetrators and the Bashriyyan government, Western media refused to pursue the story further due to the lucrative oil deals between Bashriyya and various governments.

Soon afterwards, a meeting of the Russel Trust, now under the control of the Redshields, was held in Kesslerstaadt. It transpired that James, who knew that the attacks were going to take place, had actually fed Nashid false information so he would target individuals within the Redshield Foundation who James suspected might betray him. At the same time, news had emerged that a mercury-based influenza vaccine developed by Redshield was actually causing people to become more vulnerable to influenza. In response, James demanded a full media blackout. Believing Russel was dead, James decided to call off his search for Inga, confident that he would have his final victory against the Nifonese government soon. This was to Miguel Aquinas' shock; who, in addition to aligning himself with Russel, was providing security for James Redshield. James appeared to show a complete disregard towards the threat Inga posed, especially now that she was said to be working with the Nifonese government.

A week later, Aquinas attended a meeting with several other members of the Order of Balcom at a secret bunker in Kesslerstaadt. Lucius Morgenstern addressed the men from an unknown location, ordering Aquinas to stop protecting James. Russel also revealed himself to have recovered from his injuries, albeit with a currently irremovable piece of shrapnel in his head that resembled a devil's horn. Russel gave Aquinas the green light to begin their next operation in Afurika, involving the release of a plague which would be hoped to eventually cause Afurikans to submit themselves to the Order of Balcom and convert to their religion. Russel also informed Aquinas that the Mcnernian branch of Redshield family were blaming him for the fact that Alistair Redshield was unable to walk, despite the serum needed to cure him already existing. To rectify this, Russel ordered Aquinas to send a communiqué to Alistair, informing him that the Order of Balcom wanted to meet with him and that they had disavowed themselves from James Redshield.

--Alistair stuff--

James Redshield went with an expedition team to the glaciers of Vinland, ostensibly to prove that human-driven climate change was causing the glaciers to melt. In reality, the glaciers were expanding and James' actual reason for being there was to further rouse public hysteria in the West over global warming and promote the Foundation's DLT system, as well as the cause for a global carbon tax. Redshield had the Global News Network (GNN); owned by his subordinate Ed Turner, cover the event. Things didn't go as planned, with the ship they were using for the expedition ending up getting stuck in ice for 24 hours, a fact that was immediately latched onto by alternative media and dealing a blow to the Redshield Foundation's international reputation. In the United States, President Howard was after launching an investigation into the operations of the Redshield Foundation. A search warrant was issued for the headquarters of the Redshield Foundation in New York, the premises being raided by the NYPD Emergency Service Unit. A wealthy Azerbaijani businessman and friend of Howard led the NYPD to sensitive evidence located on the upper floors of the building, which was recovered for analysis. Unaware of what was going on, Charles arrived at Redshield Headquarters, only to be arrested on-site by the police, much to his shock. James returned to his private island.

With Russel dead, Shogun Kojiro now turned his attention to dispensing with James. In Ishikawa, the Shogun convened a meeting of his close circle of military advisers, statesmen and deep state allies, 17KAI. General Takeda Daisuke indicated that the carrier Akagi was currently about 2,800 kilometres away from the Island of Babilono, officially in transit to scheduled military exercises. After delivering an inspiring speech to his colleagues on the nature of their enemy, Kojiro gave the go-ahead for the black operation to kill James.

"Redshied-san! You are the biggest bakayaro I have ever known! If I were you, I would have never attempted to bribe Maki Kojiro! On the contrary, I would have built a tomb from marble for him! That is, because as long as there is Lord in Heaven - Maki Kojiro shall NEVER BE DEFEATED!"

— Maki Kojiro, Secret of Conquest

Eighteen hours after the meeting, the Imperial Nifonese Navy commenced reconnaissance of the Island of Babilono with extremely stealthy Ku-181 Shinigami unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs) launched from the Akagi. Intelligence revealed that the island was protected by a battalion-sized group of private military contractors. After being informed that one of drones had almost arrived near the island to assassinate James Redshield, Kojiro contacted James one final time before he ordered the strike. Feigning that he wanted to discuss permanent peace between the Redshield Foundation and Nifon, Kojiro asked what would he have to do to secure it, only for James to threaten Kojiro that, if he didn't join his cause, he would leak the names of Nifonese special agents and informants around the world, and also sabotage the country's economy. After firmly rejecting James' order and refusing to comply with his demands, Kojiro gave the signal for the strike to begin. Seconds later, the Ku-181 launched two GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided bombs at Castle Redshield, blowing James to smithereens and temporarily cutting the head off of the Redshield Foundation.

--Russel reaction to James death--

--scramble for Redshield assets--

Bangkan coup attempt

Amihan Russel addresses a meeting of his new business associates in Kesslerstaadt.

With several months now passed since the death of James Redshield and Charles' arrest, Russel began to plan his next move against the Nifonese. Bar a few individuals, Russel was still presumed dead by the rest of the world. His allies helped him to recover most of his assets from Redshield ownership and he began to assemble a group of business associates to help him in seeking revenge. At the new Babeel Tower in Kesslersaadt, Russel revealed that he had enlisted the help of a Hindu guru called Swami Upadhya, leader and founder of the cult known as the International Shiva Consciousness Foundation (ISCF). Upadhya immediately found himself at odds with mercenary Walter Siemens, head of Siemens Self-Defense Forces, with their war of words almost devolving into a knife fight before Russel brought them back into line. Russel went on to explain his plan, involving an operation to hatch a coup in Bangka, a mainly Hindu island nation in the Southern Furukuran Sea that was well within the Nifonese sphere of influence. Russel planned to frame a terrorist attack on the Nifonese Kogyokist community on the island, stirring up anti-Nifonese sentiment and Christianophobia, setting the stage for the Bangkan Defense Forces to launch a coup led by officers with ties to the ISCF, forcing Nifon to intervene and engage in a long, expensive pacification campaign on the island.

After the unrest in South Oceanica in early 2016, Gene Karlson and several other survivors of the Litte Kiyosu incident had sought refuge in Kesslerstaadt. Having fallen on hard times, he had settled down in the slum area of Kesslerstaadt that had once been the city-state's industrial zone, alongside his second-in-command Aidan Meyer. A few days after the meeting, Karlson was visited in his apartment by a representative of Russel called Steven Nordholt, formerly head of the Amihan Foundation for Development of Freedom, Democracy and Progress (AFDFDP). Officially, he had been killed in the board room when Charles Redshield's bomb went off, but had mysteriously survived unscathed. Furthermore, almost all records of his existence had been subsequently erased from Russel Trust databases. Nordholt offered Karlson the chance to get his revenge against the Nifonese in Bangka for what happened in South Oceanica, which he gladly accepted. Nordholt then departed, telling Karlson that he would be in contact in the near future about funding and resources for reestablishing his Homoguard and a new branch of Homofront to be deployed in Bangka when the time came.

WIP

"According to the information that was given to us by Upadhya, the branch of the ISCF operating in Carloso is being investigated by Conquistador for offering illegal abortion services, trafficking humans and taking part in the drugs trade, and the recent bombing in Bangka probably heightened their suspicions. Santander is probably unaware of Russel's involvement; we're all dead after all, so we have reason to believe he is trying to find concrete evidence that will allow the Carlosian authorities to close down Upadhya's cult for good. What better place to look than the den of the devil itself."

— Steven Nordholt, I have become death, the destroyer of worlds

WIP

After the failure of the coup, Upadhya and the ISCF were forced into hiding and its number of followers were greatly diminished.

War in Bagongo

Map of the Democratic Republic of Bagongo. Orange line signifies line of control between FROLIBO and the Government as of mid-2019.