[OOC] Failed State

[Pripovednik]

Sylvanian Ghosts

-Faction Name: Sylvanian Ghosts

-Faction Type: Defectors
-Faction Main Base of Operation: Northern Sylvania

-Faction Goals:
"To protect and expand upon the lands upon in which we live, giving no quarter." - Captain Furus

-Faction Composition:
All of the members are from Sylvania , and thus have very little religious background or belief due to its rare occurrence in Sylvanian people, who are too hard working and proud to think of anything as ridiculous as a deity too much. The group is a mix of both race and gender.

88 Members in total. 76 Military trained. 4 woodsmen/lumberjacks. 8 civilian informants.
72 of the military personnel are in 9 squads of 8 (including lieutenants). Each Squad is equipped with a single long range radio and a medical kit. The remaining individuals are 3 engineers and Captain Furus.

-Initial Assets:
Every member owns a small hand gun, typically a 9mm Turken WB (80%) but some have the 212 Whaler.
Fighters (85%) have a mix of .75 KDA Assualt Rifles, Flatnose Harbur 5 Submachine Guns and SemiAutomatic DuroTek Scopers. (Many of these have additional attachments)
Any fighter in the field has a hand held radio, basic camouflage with attachable Ghilie extensions and a 3rd Grade Combat Knife.

Two military trucks with a small alteration to the wheels to distinguish from the enemy.
3 Mountable Turken 125's.
6 Highrise minor movement detectors
4 IFA mines.

Burrows - Many underground outposts built within the forest, around 3x3x2 metres and 3 feet deep: equipped with a long range radio for communication and two small hammocks for members on duty there.

Tree chains - A long line of trees linked with rope bridges and mounted with pads, able to hold a single member comfortably or two at a push.

Wood Stock – Having ties within the Guildly wood industry can mean quick and cheap wood supplies.

Border Eyes and Ears – We have our friends in Pomorums south.

-Methods of Operation:
As 'Ghosts' suggests the group are no strangers to falling off grid, many of them are from the surrounding areas of Sylvania and know the woods better than outsiders, and they fell no regret in using this to their advantage. When it comes to ambushes and other covert operations, the Sylvanian Ghosts can compete with the best of them.

-Faction History:
After seeing the military merciless act upon Greys orders, this company of Sylvanian Men and Women broke away from their former leaders and found their way back to their homeland under Captain Furus' command, taking a handful of military vehicles and equipment along the way. Setting up outposts and a base of operations in the forests of their land, the group found that a few civilians and family members were eager to join and so they were recruited. The majority of said civilians were reinstalled into Guildly and Kirhall as informants and to assure others of their intent, but those that could help with construction and transportation (lumberjacks and woodsmen) have stayed on and worked closely with the rest.

-Faction Leadership:
Captain Furus – The founder and key leader of the Ghosts.
Head Engineer Thorn – Furus' closest and oldest friend.
Captain Thomas – The oldest and grizzliest man you will ever meet.
Zackery Guilder – In charge of informants and their information.

-Faction Eyes:
Joe Walby – Woodsmen with ex-military training, acting soldier and guide.
Private Rich Guilder – Youngest of the Guilder brothers. The Guilders are the oldest family in Guidly, and also the largest.
Engineer Shaw – Brandon Shaw works under Head Engineer Thorn and accomanies most vehicle movement.

[Serpentine88]

FACTION: 17th February Revolutionary Movement

Note: The World International, a global anarcho-syndicalist (and former communist, before a violent schism) organization is controlled by Wernher and is acting as my factions patron.

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FACTION SUMMARY:

FACTION TYPE: Terrorists/Revolutionary Cell (Formerly Insurgents: Not actually terrorists, more of a former insurgent militia transforming into a highly organized revolutionary cell due to foreign leadership)

FACTION BASE OF OPERATIONS: Pomorum. The faction used to work around Keldmoor, setting up their ambushes and raids on Grey's forces as they move around near Varisso. The group then moved into the city itself and took part in the Battle for Varisso before its crippling. The Faction, now under the leader of "The Voice" and other foreign controllers have since moved the faction to the outskirts of Harleigh in northern Pomorum.

FACTION GOALS:
#1: Overthrow the dictatorship (or any following government with opposing ideologies)
#2: Break the siege of Varisso
#3: Form an anarcho-syndicalist direct-democracy federation following the World International's splinter ideology of communism.
#4: Redeem the ideals and dream of Carl "Snowballs Chance" Leonard (Foreigners)

FACTION COMPOSITION:
-The 17th February Revolutionaries: Comprised mostly of disgruntled and rebellious civilians of Noravea, many of whom were industrial workers and students from around Pomorum and Concordia. They are referred to as the "Locals" by the new foreign leadership. They were formerly a militia-like insurgent faction with revolutionary aspirations. They are desperate and willing to work under these new "Professional revolutionaries". Most of the members are left leaning politically and all of them are populists. Despite their radicalization, they still think themselves as idealists and believe they are legitimately fighting for the people, so they tend to avoid excessive war crimes compared to their more extreme rival factions.

-The International Revolutionaries: Comprised of "Professional Revolutionaries" these are international fighters and instigators that have spent their entire lives fighting wars for their ideological cause. They represent the World International, a vast formerly communist apparatus of ideologues and revolutionaries. They move from state to state and attempt to assist or take over local movements and encourage them towards fighting the perpetual world revolution as envisioned by Carl "Snowballs Chance" Leonard. Following Leonard, a PCA professor and wartime hero ousted by his own former revolutionary comrades in the PCA, the international revolutionaries have since became bitter and hostile to communist movements, and have since been transformed into anarcho-socialist/syndicalist internationalists, this political schism resulting in numerous bloody conflicts between fellow left-wing rebels.

INITIAL ASSETS:
-International Revolutionaries (Foreign Support, Cash, Volunteers, Contacts)
-The Voice (Lev Clausstein, Foreign Expert)
-A Stolen tank (Stolen by the local insurgents after drivers surrendered it in an ambush, currently has very little fuel due to prioritization for the trucks or ammo and no one skilled in driving it)
-Three stolen military trucks (Stolen in ambushes, currently used to move around and tow the stolen tank)
-Smuggled small arms and explosives (Through arms dealer associated with Lev Clausstein)
-Rockets for rocket artillery... But no rocket artillery to fire them (Salvaged from destroyed rocket artillery battery)
-International Pirate Broadcast (Propaganda)
-Vestigial support from civilians due to past Robin Hood antics.
-Around 46 remaining locals and 7 foreign 'advisers'. The number of actual foreigners not currently in the nation and/or working supporting roles may be significantly larger due to the nature of power difference between the local and foreign groups.

METHODS OF OPERATION:
-Previously low-intensity and highly decentralized ambushes and guerrilla warfare in the rural outskirts, moved into high-intensity but still decentralized urban battles before being severely crippled as an organization. After its recent reformation, the faction has completely altered itself into an ultra-secretive, ultra-centralized cell that is currently laying low while its new hyper-competent but controlling leadership both takes control of the few remaining locals and begins recruiting and rebuilding the ranks into a proper disciplined organization.

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FACTION HISTORY:

Originally a hodge-podge group of insurgents made out of mostly unemployed industrial workers and radicalized students following the collapse of Noravea's economy and starvation from sanctions, The 17th February Movement mostly worked through indirect guerrilla warfare in the outskirts of Keldmoor, relying on ambushes and raids on military checkpoints to both continue attacks and gain further military-grade supplies from looting. Relatively popular with the civilians and people of the local area due to their relatively soft methods and tendency to avoid collateral damage along with "Robin Hood" antics including stealing and distributing food, they eventually moved to towns and finally Varisso to fight in urban battles, where they found that their previous tactics were far less effective. Taking serious casualties from intense and sustained battle with both government forces and rival revolutionary groups, the 17th February Movement were in need of radical change or they would soon by wiped out for good.

That change came with the sudden and unexpected arrival of "The Voice". Identity unknown to the locals who only through agents and other forms of indirect communication from "The Voice" know of its existence, a great change had come for the movement. Originally arriving as a supposed foreign backer working through an arms dealer the faction got its supplies from, The Voice quickly begun handing the group intelligence, contacts, funding and eventually tactical advise. The Voices contributions were steadily becoming more and more vital to the movements survival until it eventually took over with The Voice's assumption of control during the factions daring escape from the city, enabling them to flee northward.

"The Voice", unknown to the local insurgents is Lev Clausstein, also known as the Black Phoenix in other parts of the world. Under the Black Phoenix alias, Clausstein has become one of the worlds most (in)famous professional revolutionary masterminds and international instigators, an agent of the World International and its campaign of permanent world revolution. The only student of the revolutionary wartime hero, former-communist theorist and exiled PCA professor of Social-sciences Carl "Snowballs Chance" Leonard, Clausstein is a fanatical political visionary hellbent on fulfilling the failed dreams of his mentor and has spent his entire life waiting for a chance to turn around the World Internationals decline following the betrayal of the PCA politburo and in doing so replace the communist movement with the anarcho-syndicalist movement in the campaign to defeat capitalist oppression.

Clausstein while possessing no actual armies or land holds considerable power through his connections to the World International. While the World International is assumed to be a toothless organization comprised of naive idealists, in reality it is a much more savvy organization than it lets alone, exploiting its harmless appearance to expand anonymously. That anonymous expansion continues now in Noravea where Clausstein, the Internationals agent finally entered the hellhole mess that is Noravea to see if he can turn around Noravea's collapse into a revolutionary success story. He selected the decimated 17th February Revolutionary Movement faction due its relative political neutrality to already established platforms, its general populist message and its desperation following its crippling. Transforming this battered insurgent group into an elite revolutionary cell was the kind of thing Clausstein excelled in and did regularly, so this was far easier for him than most men.

Though small and relatively insignificant to the far larger game currently being played, Clausstein is convinced he has established his first foothold and now must begin to process of creating a true revolutionary army. Clausstein aims to eventually form a revolutionary anarcho-syndicalist commune in northern Pomorum before returning, in force, to the city of Varisso. He is not a fool however, and knows very well about the current situation with the imminent Allied invasion and has since incorporated it into his plans.

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FACTION LEADERS:

Leader (De Facto/Foreign):

Lev -The Voice- Clausstein

Name: Lev Clausstein

Alias': The Black Phoenix (Formerly Red Phoenix before the schism), The Phoenix, The Voice, Unknown, A Concerned Bystander
Age: 37
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalist, Formerly Communist, Works with Democratic-Socialists

Leader (De Jure/Local Former-Insurgent Leader):

-Irons-

Name: Gregor Auderoy

Alias': Irons, Iron, Ironman
Age: 32
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Populist Democratic-Socialist

Leader (Support-Foreign Representative for Clausstein #1):

Mr Smith

Name: Lionel Hobbes

Alias': Mr Smith
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalist, Former Communist

Leader (Support-Foreign Representative for Clausstein #2):

Mr Jones

Name: Liem Forrest

Alias': Mr Jones
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalist

Leader (Support): Local Secondary Commander

-Crowbar-

Name: Alexis Kana Mahajan

Alias': "Crowbar"
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Political Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalist

FACTION EYES:

LOCALS
-"Hammer"
-"Bricks"
-"Lucky"
-"Rabbit"
-"Tinfoil"
-"Willow"
-"Toothpick"

FOREIGNERS

-Mr Mind-Your-Own-Fucking-Business

Name: ???

Alias': "The Arms Dealer", "Mind your own fucking business", "The guy"
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Money

Carl -Snowballs Chance- Leonard

Note: Carl Leonard is not currently present in the country and is only vaguely involved in events
Note: As the leader of the World International, Leonard is controlled by Wernher for important events
Name: Professor Carl Leonard

Alias': Snowballs Chance, Snowball
Age: 87
Gender: Male
Political Ideology: Anarcho-Syndicalism (Formerly Communist, was a founding theorist of Communism)

-Anna "Rosethorn" Clausstein

[Wernher]

Durandal: Baron? Something to do with the royalty then? Interesting. I like the sheet overall, good work.

Pripovednik: I'll have to see more to form an opinion right now.

Serp: Doing an overkill as always. Revolutionaries incoming! Beware Gowia for there is another left leaning faction in town.

I'll be posting an IC opening soon.

Accepted people who may move their FS in the Sheet bin are:
-Serpentine
-Durandal
-Monkeypants
-Gowia (Also, please note that not everyone will have a weapon as of yet for such a numerous faction)
-Say Anything (Please consult with Voltus. Until something clear is established, I'll assume the south is of the Losnian ethnicity and Awliyan faith.)
-The Nexerus
-Voltus_Ventus (Please consult with Say Anything. Until something clear is established, I'll assume the south is of the Losnian ethnicity and Awliyan faith.)
-Augmented
-Lone Wanderer
-Sovi3t

A lot of these sheets could still use some work though, but you guys may post IC once it begins.

[Sovi3t]

@Wernher

I have a question relating to PEACEFOR and Concordia, the city.

In my FS, I mentioned two of my Spies are head of two cells that are behind the lines. What are my limitations for these two cells?

[Durandal]

Perhaps he's nobility. Perhaps not. We'll see. ;)
And thank you.

[Wernher]

You can try to grow there but these spies know very little locals and you don't have the reputation to get people to join up, so expect little success. At the moment they are eyes and ears in the capital able to inform you of what's going on in it, they could try an act of sabotage or an assassination, but it would probably force them underground for a long time, with how active the army is there.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Well, I've based the Losnians (hopefully obviously) on the Bosnians, the Bosnian ethnicity is almost completely Muslim, so the Losnians would be almost completely Dervish.

[Sovi3t]

http://piratepad.net/8QUozOJzQW

Made a piratepad for the rp to just begin chatting and getting into the flow/mood of it while we wait for ic to begin!

[Voltus_Ventus]

Guys, I want to make a suggestion, do you think we could use The French Republican Calendar as our calendar? Just to spice things up?

[Wernher]

I'd have to refuse, mainly because I have enough things to keep tracks of as it is lol. Although if your faction is as extremist as to wish to change the conception of time itself, then by all means.

[Monkeypants]

Ill flesh out my ns more as I have time. I mainly wanted to throw my idea out before too much time as passed. However, I'd like to focus more on IC events once it starts.

Also, serp.. Welcome back.

[Say Anything]

Is it too late to change locations, Wernher?

I'm probably just going to do that as it would be essentially impossible for my faction to survive or expand in Losnian territory so early on and there isn't much that would unite Voltus' brigands and the Awliyan Kingdom.

Camp Weskerhill's new location would be in the Vandalian countryside, twelve miles from Kinbeck.

[The Nexerus]

A reminder that this pad is acting as a chatroom for the RP.

[Grijs]

Can I be the Serbian remove-kebab army?

[Serpentine88]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9WgR_N4h4

[Wernher]

You have no idea how much I wanted that to be played. Yes, oh god so much yes.

[Voltus_Ventus]

Can I be the Serbian remove-kebab army?

@Grijs

Why do I feel like that was a racist comment?

[Serpentine88]

<Snipped quote by Grijs>

Why do I feel like that was a racist comment?

@Voltus_Ventus

Its a meme, and an old one at that.

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/serbia-strong-remove-kebab

We are playing in an obvious Yugoslavian-knock off, I seriously doubt he meant it as a racial slur.

[gowia]

The People's March

-Faction Name: The People’s March

-Faction Type: Insurgents

-Faction Main Base of Operation: The leading figures of People’s March and it's more militant supporters iare currently camped a few miles outside of Northport, Pleuria, however most of the foot soldiers and members are civilians living in the sums that make up and surround the city. The camp is a very basic set up of a few hidden tents and vehicles with a cache of supplies buried nearby.

-Faction Goals: The March want to replace the current government with a Communist Regime that will look to the need of the workers, over big business and bring Noravia into a new phase of proletariat prosperity. More goals may be developed as the faction develops however.

-Faction Composition: The People's March is made up of a fairly even mixture of male and female members, gender is not seen as something to be discriminatory over. Alongside this by becoming communist all members give up their religion and so anybody who held a place of religious power is either rejected or simply eliminated. Culturally the People's March almost entirely hail from Pleuria, however there is a smattering of other cultures due to the rise in people arriving looking for work.

-Initial Assets:
-Basic equipment, such as civilian radios and mass produced outdoors gear. Anything that could be bought publically. The radios are used with a code, but not on a encrypted channel.
-Around 650 'foot soldiers', these are members who, whilst not in the camp, are very supportive of the cause and prepare for the day the People's March Rises up. Next to none of them have any form of military training and even fewer have firearms. Most have worked in the oil refineries before however and so know how to run them.
-40 'Zealots, the die hard members who now live outside of Northport in the small camp. This includes The Party and Joseph Sullam. Most have no formal training with weopans but spend days practicing in the fields and mud. A small cache of Great War weopans has been collected in the camp and these men and women have taken their pick of this. The real reason they are so valuable though, is that almost all of the members are incredibly charismatic.
-A Great War cache of weopans. Around 50 Dragon Bolt Action rifles with a fair amount of ammo. On top of this a number of batches of homemade explosives have been produced.
-A number of civilian off-road vehicles have been made more spartan to allow them to carry larger numbers of people around. However none are fitted for battle.
-Contacts with other Trade Unions all across Noravia, many not as sympathetic as first hoped however.
-The People's March Workers Club is a fairly large building in Northport where the founding members of the union used to meet and drink. However it quickly became the base of operations for the group as they become more and more violent. Formerly a warehouse, until the camp was formed, it has a very basic shaft tunnel used for smuggling goods.

-Methods of Operation: The March currently doesn’t openly fight the government with violence. There have been demonstrations and protests that have become riots, but the leaders of the March had made sure to be away from these happenings. In truth the People's March is still 'officially' a Trade Union and as such only condone peaceful strikes, marches and protests. Most recent of which was the 'March of the Thousand' in which 1000 unemployed members of the public marched on the oil works, in protest of the lack of jobs despite promises made. It was a complete success and raised the profile of the People's March rapidly.

-Faction History: The People's March begun as a Trade Union based in the pubs of Northport. This was long before the discovery of oil however and so the average complaint was when a worker was not given the sick pay he had been assured. After the Great War many of the members brought back arms and mementos, these ended up in the People's March Workers Club. After the Great War the People's March took on a more and more radical view, especially after the discovery of oil. With such a huge influx of new workers the refineries and other workplaces couldn't hire them all. As such the People's March turned from exclusively accepting the employed to taking all who wanted social change. A more active role in society was taken and more and more marches were conducted. The People's March became openly communist after the 'Strike of Thorns'. What was meant to be a perfectly legal strike and march became a blood bath after a brief flurry of police brutality. During this the last leader of the People's March was arrested and died in jail, Joseph Sullam took over and swiftly brought with him other extremist members to the leadership. As such membership has dropped, but public support hasn't. All it would take is a sign that the People's March really is a force and Joseph Sullam would use that as a rallying call for more supporters.

-Faction Leadership:
-Joseph Sullam, the all seeing, charismatic chosen leader of the People's March. A former oil worker himself, he is fairly smart and an adept leader, but nothing special. His true strength is in his cunning and political maneuverings. He wrestled power from less extreme candidates and has twisted the People's March into something it was never intended to be.
-Maria Truskov, Sullam's second in command and his main agent within the Party. She is slightly younger than he is but has been working on the refineries longer than Sullam. She also runs the ring of spies and informants the People's March has cultivated.
-Trevor Sullam, Joseph's older brother. He is the more intelligent of the brothers, but much less ambitious. He is very useful in leadership but is almost always pushed into it.
-Yuri, a former Secret Police informant, Yuri turned after he was supposed to be spying on the March. He now trains the 40 zealots who live outside the city as well as organises the security of the March, running the group own secret police.
-Thomas Yacob, a former head of a trade union who is now the voice of the revolution within Northport. He is hurried around so as to keep him from being arrested or eliminated. He has two die hard supporting body guards, both called Trevor.

-Faction Eyes: The People’s March has member spies within almost every union in Northport, as well as the major ones across the country. Alongside this there are a number of sympathisers in the establishment who hand down information they hear, secretaries and office workers who are scorned by their employers are the largest group of these. Finally the People's March has a small select group, around 5 members, who act as a secret police, trained by Yuri himself. They act directly on Yuri, or Joseph Sullam's orders, killing rivals off and eliminating other pillars of the community so that the People's March is the only viable group to join and support.

Reposting my sheet in a more finished capacity, let me know if anything needs changing.

[Wernher]

And remember guys! The success of your IC actions are determined by me!