A Who's Who of
The War For Oil
This will build into a list of in game characters who they are and
what they do. Where did they come from, what motivates them. Their history
and their life. In fact anything that helps to make a character more believable.
Leftenant Cmdr John Caxton
John Caxton is a Special Boat Service officer. Originally
an officer in the British Royal Marines he joined the SBS rather than
continue the usual RM career path. He has spent the last few years in
covert operations. He has been chosen to go to Malden because of his excellent
local
Before this his wife and
young child were killed by an IRA revenge bombing meant for him after a
successful maritime mission to capture an IRA arms shipment from the US.
He almost left the job then. He is now barred from working on Ireland as
his cover there is blown.
The SBS allowed
him to be seconded to an MI6 operation in Kolgistan and the decimated
island of Kolgojev. He was with the last FKL fighters when they gave up on
Kolgojev to let the Soviets use it as a battle range. He helped get them
off the island before Gubba could capture them. Then he trained them to
continue the fight in the Kolgistan it self but within a few years the
USSR self destructed and Kolgistan became a separate state again for the
first time in 130 years.
He visited the new
state where many of his old friends were officers in the new Kolgistan
military and some politicians (members of the nationalist party then in opposition)
The new state was very poor agricultural state with out of date engineering
factories that no longer had markets in Russia where consumer goods were
being imported from the west produced there by multinationals looking for
a cheap educated workforce.
It looked like
Kolgistan was going to find it hard to reclaim the decimated island of
Kolgojev with its years of military waste and unexploded munitions. Then
Oil was discovered off the small Sand Bank. Suddenly everyone wanted to be
Kolgojev's new friend. There were a few disputes over the ownership of the
island and its oil fields but the island had never been anything but Kolgistani.
Caxton was happy for them.
The situation did not
last though; the nearby islands of Nogovo, Malden and Everon had laid
claim to the Oil when their case had been thrown out by the world court
they decided to impose a tax on any ship carrying oil through their
waters.
When the first oil tanker through
their waters refused to pay the passage fee they impounded it and
imprisoned the crew. negotiations failed and the crisis precipitated a
resignation of the moderate Kolgistan government who were replaced at the
elections by the nationalists.
They invaded the
islands of Malden and Everon ostensibly to take back their crew and its
oil tanker but it was just a pretext to take over the islands. They announced
that the government of the islands was to be tried for war crimes and installed
a puppet regime in there place.
The islands
are covered by a NATO treaty so now the west is involved and John Caxton
must fight his former friends the very men and women he trained but there
are many other forces at work the Russians want the Oil and so does a
southern neighbor so they can gain more influence at the next OPEC conference.
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