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	Command & Conquer Generals
	Zero Hour

	The Resurgence (Part 1)
	OPERATION: CASPIAN CRISIS

	By: WaTeR_BoY	

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This story is the continuation of the Generals zero hour series, I have added my own twist to the ending of the CNC generals Zero hour series. THE RESURGENCE series will consist of several skirmish and single player maps designed to convey the storyline. This is the first map (part one).  

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THE RESURGENCE (Part 1)
OPERATION : CASPIAN CRISIS

Storyline:

Year 2023, one year after the GLA expulsion from Europe by the Chinese and the formation of the  Eurasian alliance.... 

After the takeover of the Stan nations (GLA homeland) by American and Chinese forces and the GLA's expulsion from Europe, the GLA chain of command was broken and its vast terrorist network around the world was soon being rooted out by the world's 2 superpowers. In year 2022, the last GLA bastion in Europe, the captured American military base in Stuttgart, was destroyed by the Chinese and the GLA was assumed to be eliminated.  Finally, the world saw what was thought to be the final demise of a fanatical terrorist organisation which once threatened world peace; an organisation audacious enough to challenge the existing world order and the world's 2 superpowers. 

There was 'peace', at least according to the US and China. No incidence of terrorism was reported in the subsequent months. However, in reality, the rest of the world was tumultuous due to increasing economic and political domination by the victors of the war against terrorism - China and the US. Petroleum prices skyrocketed due to plummeting oil supply and the economies of many poor nations collapsed, victims of the USA and China's oil monopoly in the world market. Military occupation in Central Asia (Stan Nations) and the middle east resulting from the war has ensured a steady supply of oil to the 2 nations while most of the third world languished.

The war against the GLA was not without consequence to world's political landscape. America's disastrous defeat in Germany by GLA forces and America's subsequent withdrawal precipitated the decline in America's military and political influence in Europe. NATO was dissolved. The fiasco in Germany and Greece has deemed the United States incapable of defending Europe. The Eurasian Alliance was its replacement, a military alliance between the European nations and China. By year 2023, America's military forces in Europe has diminished, supplanted by China's emerging army. The USA army was a humiliated powerful military force still reeling from defeat. Meanwhile, China withher self-proclaimed role as the world's sole peacekeeper is now the military powerhouse of the world; exerting great military influence and hegemony over much of the world thanks in part to its success in the expulsion of GLA forces from Europe. However, China's military has been spread paper thin, defending an area stretching from Beijing to Stuttgart while only a fraction of America's military remained abroad, concentrated only in areas vital to American interests.  

But world security is no longer a concern. GLA is dead .... or is it?

In the year 2023, Azerbaijan, a small nation by the Caspian sea, negotiated a deal with Russia to purchase dismantled nuclear warheads to power its nuclear reactors. An 8000 strong nuclear warhead stockpile still remains in Russia even after 20 years into the 21st century, a legacy of the cold war. The first batch of 25 nuclear warheads arrived in the newly constructed Baku oilfield nuclear reactor a month later and another 5 convoys bearing nuclear warheads was en route to the facility. A day before the scheduled reprocessing of the 25 nuclear warheads, substantial amounts of VX toxins and anthrax spores were reported missing in a biochemical research facility in the outskirts of Baku. 

The news came to the Azerbaijani authorities too late. All personnel in the Baku nuclear reactor and the adjacent petroluem processing facility were already dead, massacred swiftly and efficiently by lethal VX gasses and anthrax spores spewed over the area by 3 hijacked cargo planes. Contact was lost with the other 5 convoys which was last seen in Quba, an Azerbaijani town near the Russian border. 

American intelligence based in Turkey was swift to intercept the hijacked planes and all 3 were downed over the Caspian sea. An hour after the biochemical attack, Azerbaijani military forces stationed near Baku was attacked. Initial investigations by American intelligence confirmed the unexpected and the deeply alarming: The GLA has resurfaced, 5 nuclear warheads has been captured by the once thought defunct terror organisation, and another 25 lay unguarded in a contaminated nuclear facility just waiting to be collected. A nuclear crisis is imminent. 

The GLA was never dead and will never be eliminated as long as oppression by the superpowers remains. 

A smaller terror cell network still operates, laying dormant, scheming and waiting for right moment to exact its revenge on the 'oppressors'. Its numbers were growing unchecked; feeding on the world's disenfranchised population, victims of American and Chinese economic and political domination. 

On the other hand, the GLA resurgence has provided the US with an opportunity to redeem its dented reputation. The United States must take action. 5 nuclear warheads has already been captured and Us GPS satellite scan failed to locate the stolen trucks; retrieval of the stolen warheads was impossible. Securing the Nuclear plant was the only available option. 3 hours later, a small US military force from the US airbase in Diyarbakir, Turkey, was deployed outside the nuclear facility to prevent the capture of the remaining 25 nuclear warheads and a possible nuclear holocaust. GLA presence in the area has already been detected and time is running out. All GLA forces must be cleared from the area. A nuclear incident in the Caspian region would be catastrophic.

Failure is no option. 


