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[Adoge]

In terms of a game, I believe that factions are an important part of the setting and story. Especially those that are unique.
Examples include:
ROTR's five factions: USA (Generalist), GLA (Subversive), China (Spammer/Horde), Russia (Powerhouse) and E.C.A (Cannon/Turtler)

The Paradox Mod: Allies (Generalist/Air Force), Soviets (Powerhouse), Empire (More elitist- bit hard to pin down), Confederate Revolutionaries (Subversives- good guy GLA.), Order of the Talon (Elitist/Powerhouse/quality), the Mediterranean syndicate (Cannon/Ranger), the Atomic Kingdom of China (more defensive in approach) and the Electrical Protectorate (Spammer).

I love unique factions and I wanted to create a thread where people could post their own faction designs in any universe they want.

They could be Post Apocalyptic Bandits, Cybernetic Purists, Dinosaurs, Alternate Dimension fascist super-maniacs with super tanks.

This post has been edited by Adoge: 24 Apr 2015, 8:37

[Adoge]

The Rise of the Remnant

The Directorate's take-over and globalisation of its message did not resound with as much of the global population as the Council thought. The implementation of a system designed to excercise effective and beneficial yet totalitarian control over the world was not greeted with what the Directorate expected. The Directorate believed in effective economics, austerity to ensure economic success, universal health-care and technology, militarism and globalisation. Central to the Directorate was the idea of scientific rationalism. Science was a central tenant to effective governance, it believed, and religion represented an element of division in society. Religion is seen by the Directorate as a threat to a unified and globalised One World Government. It represents division and lack of unity within society, for so often had conflict been pursued because of religion. Culture too, the Directorate saw a threat. Culture lead to differences and diversity, to the Directorate, diversity stopped at Skin colour, all were citizens of a Global Directorate. Centralised, godless and cultureless global government. Indeed some iconic villages within Switzerland and Austria, particularly in the Alps, have been replaced with giant metallic structures- various command centres, administration buildings and secret experimental labs. The Taj Mahal is now a museum to the Old Order, the Great Wall of China has been rebuilt from scratch and turned into a massive defensive wall manned by the Directorate Security forces.

The Directorate's actions against culture and religion, as well as their harsher policies regarding normal life, drew a huge amount of opposition, despite the massive security apparatus the Directorate operated. In the aftermath of the invasion of America, the war is technically still going on there technically, the Directorate's opposition has emerged into the light. Collectively they are referred to as the Remnant, in reference of their ideologies and beliefs centering around the beliefs of the Old World. Based in Kazakstan, the Remnant seeks to return the world to democracy and national boundaries. Several groups within the Remnant exist: The Liberation Army is the amalgamation of many former National militiaries and soldiers along with militias who believe in protecting their old way of living. The Liberation Army is the hierarchy of these groups, who still operate on an individual level. The most prominent force of the Liberation Army is the Continental Army, led by former Libertarian President John Lincoln- this group is a force mixing former Military units with Militias and Freedom Riders. However, there are still many groups that exist outside this chain of command and do not receive the military equipment.

The next group, the Partisans operate around the world, mainly within Directorate territory. They are in no way united, Freedom fighters and protestors, they seek to liberate themselves from the Directorate and are mostly made up of everyday people, civilians simply seeking a better life. The partisans do have representatives at the Remnant home base, the Baikonur Cosmodrome, however they simply operate within their immediately local areas, with the exception of the Mexican partisans, who are unified and control the entire countryside with the exception of the cities, where the Directorate has dug in.

The third sect of sorts, are the Chaos Cells, not officially represented at the Remnant, the Chaos Cells are adherents to the belief of the deputy -leader of the Remnant, Sambuiko Qui, who herself believes the Remnant should replace the Directorate with a world based on 20th Century Anarchy. However, her followers in the Chaos Cells have taken this to mean that chaos should be unleashed upon the world. The CHaos Cells have made the most progress, with the Partisans mainly only operating small operations, and the Liberation Army fighting a more defensive war in America, the Middle East and Central Asia. The Chaos Cells have "liberated" Burma, Thailand, Indonesia and Brazil because they are willing to use almost any weapon to destroy the establishment. There are also Chaos Cells present in Africa, however given the chaos that occurs in Central Africa and the fact that both the Partisans and Liberation Army have contacts in the Warlords and Tribes there, Central Africa is not claimed by anyone. The Directorate fears the Chaos Cells the most, while the Inner Echelon is in agreement that the Partisans and Liberation Army can be brought to negotiations once they witness the full might of the Directorate, the Chaos Cells are mad. The Cells are willing to use a dirty nuke in the middle of a city, unleash stolen Sarin-strain gas into the subway to spread throughout a Directorate city, will kill anyone who surrenders and care little for civilians lives. While the Directorate itself is not phased by using its WMDs and Kill Sats to annihilate cities and wipe out resistance, it finds an enemy who does this and is willing to go further, a great threat to its ambitions of glbal Order, Progress and Security.

There are still some areas that have little to no resistance against the Directorate: Western Europe, China and Australia are the major areas. Western Europe, given it was the first area to join the Directorate, has reaped the benefits of Universal Health-Care, scientific rationalism and Directorate aid. China has long been totalitarian, indeed almost overnight the Communist Party was replaced with the Inner Echelon. The Chinese security apparatus was molded into a sleeker Directorate version and the Directorate took lessons from the Chinese security apparatus as well and applied it to their own Global one. Australia is the third, its close proximity to Indonesia and Papua New Guinea has led to a population sympathetic to the Directorate. Every night, the Directorate media networks beam images of the Chaos Cells brutality in South-East Asia and the Directorate military campaign to reclaim it. As such, these three countries form the backbone of the Directorate, along with Canada, South Africa and Korea.

The Remnant leadership, led by Command-in-chief Jacob Vance, has long been based in what was once-Kazakstan. The Central Asian country has long offered a haven for the Remnant. Astana, the capital of former-Kazakstan was declared the headquarters of the Remnant. From Astana, the former Remnant commander-in-chief Divya pattel declared the first free nation, Kazakstan. Moments after the Remnant hacked into the Directorate Global Network and played the video across the world, urging citizens to rise up against tyranny, the Inner Echelon authorised the use of one of the Directorate's new "Citykiller" Laser Satellites against Astana. Three million civilians perished, including Pattel and most of the Remnant leadership. The shattered remains of the Remnant, led by newly appointed CIC Jacob Vance and his deputy Sambuiko Qui, were evacuated to beneath the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the Remnant now directs its global war from. In bunkers and tunnels below the Cosmodrome Vance and his rebels prepare to take the fight to Geneva and overthrow the Directorate and the Inner Echelon


I hope you have enjoyed reading the main two backstory parts about my Directorate vs Remnant idea, please feel free to post any criticism and thoughts as it would be greatly appreciated. I will be postig more stories and background related to this idea as well as any other new ideas I come across.

This post has been edited by Adoge: 26 Apr 2015, 11:05