Перебежчики Артема (Artem's Defectors)

== History ==
=== The Great War of 1987 and formation of Artem's Defectors ===
During the later and most pivotal stages of the Great war of 1987, the soviets launched an invasion of the island of Kodiak, Alaska, with a force of 50 Spetznaz and 270 Infantry, the 50 Spetznaz under command of Commander Anton Vardayn the 270 infantry were apart of the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division under the direct command of Army General Dmitry Yazov, who was the Commanding Officer of the Far Eastern Military District (FEMD) of the Soviet Army, after his massive success in Kodiak with an outnumbered fighting force, he was soon promoted to Soviet Defense Minister directly by Mikhail Gorbachev, where he was then replaced by Colonel General Mikhail Moiseyev in command of both the FEMD and the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division, where in the transfer of power and over 2,000 reinforcements stationed in Kodiak caused supply shortages and disorganization among the forces present in Kodiak Alaska, and on top of low rations and disjointed command structure the soviet forces had been engaged in several skirmishes by Chuck's Militia and the Kodiak Citizens Resistance, causing further unrest and damage to morale within the forces stationed there, eventually led to a group of 117 members of the 27th Guards Motor Rifle Division to defect during the Battle of Pillar Creek, the defectors led by Senior Lieutenant Artem Nikolaev, where then Colonel General Mikhail Moiseyev ordered for the defector forces to be prioritized targets over the militia forces led by Chuck Temple and the KCR, though eventually Chuck's Militia managed to overwhelm the soviet forces in Pillar Creek and the soviet forces were pushed back to Kodiak city.
=== Involvement with the KCR and Kodiak Civil War ===
After the battle of Pillar Creek, Artem's Defectors integrated as a formal militia apart of the KCR, being made up entirely of Russians, any and all Russians in the KCR joined with the Defectors, and the Defectors continued to engage in skirmishes against the Soviet forces alongside the rest of the KCR, though eventually in 1995 when the Soviet forces in Kodiak lost contact with Moscow, the remaining soviet forces which were East Kodiak City formed the Kodiak Oblast under the command of Aleksandr Zaharyatov, where Artem Nikolaev voiced his support for the new administration and its disconnect from the Soviet Union, and Artem and the power his militia had in the KCR's Militia Council was a core part of the peace between the KCR and the Kodiak Oblast, though with the rise of a coalition of several of the most powerful militia's in the KCR Militia Council led by Stephen Lukes, and his strong anti-oblast stance, tensions grew within the KCR Militia Council, especially between Lukes and Nikolaev, though by now Lukes had garnered almost every single militia within the KCR Militia Council and his attention was away from the internal politics of the KCR and towards Chuck's Militia, now dubbed the Church of Yelloman, which had a much larger influence than Artem's Defectors, and after the Fluke Creek Bus Massacre, where Church of Yelloman forces attacked a militia apart of Luke's "Only the Hated" Coalition, both the KCR and Church of Yelloman plunged the island into the Kodiak Civil War, where then due to Only the Hated being the overwhelming majority administration in the KCR, the KCR dissolved, and Only the hated assumed full control of all the militia's under the KCR with the exception of Artem's Defectors, which were against the Only the Hated Coalition, and so to avoid the Kodiak Civil War, artem ordered his forces to flee west away from the conflict in Kodiak City and Kodiak Station, where he then established his militia in Women's Bay as an independent faction away from Only the Hated, Church of Yelloman, and the Kodiak Oblast, though in 1997 when nearly all of Yelloman's southern and coastal territories were seized by Only the Hated, the Defectors under fear of Only the Hated expansion towards Women's Bay, considered joining the Kodiak Oblast who were now Only the Hated's primary target in the civil war now that Yelloman had been pushed to refuge in the Monaska Mountains, though ultimately Artem decided against joining the Oblast as the previous leader Aleksandr Zaharyatov, who had good relations with Artem, was diposed and replaced with Anton Vardayn, who was the leader of the spetznaz force that targetted Artem's forces in the Battle of Pillar Creek, so instead Artem decided to mobilize his militia in the Fairgrounds along Rezanof Road to defend from any invading forces heading to women's bay, and aside from a small skirmish between an OTH scavenging crew attempting to scout out Women's Bay as a viable supply option, Artem's Defectors remained isolated in Women's bay, over the years many of the original Women's Bay inhabitants began adopting Russian as their primary language due to the governing influence Artem had over the city.
=== Post-Kodiak Civil War ===
in 2011 Artem's Defectors had a brief conflict with the United Commonwealth as UC had monopoly control over the west, controlling all of Kodiak Station and the US:CG base, and looking towards Women's bay as an opportunity, though eventually the General believed the scavenging industry in women's bay would be too costly compared to West Kodiak City scavenging as women's bay had much more inhabitants compared to the battleground that was West Kodiak City, and so there would be much more resistance.
=== Interactions with EO and formation of SCAZ ===
In 2014 after the Battle of Kodiak Station, EO had secured itself as a major power in the West, with control of the US:CG base, and the establishment of a DMZ between the Kodiak Airport and the rest of the west, EO began taking interest in Women's bay, and with the start of the Redevelopment program in Red Hook and McCarran Ranch, they began to see resistance to their expansion from Artem, Artem protesting the militarization and rapid expansion EO had in the west, eventually leading to E9 inquiring with Stephen Lukes about Artem, where Stephen Lukes voiced his disapproval of the rogue militia, calling them traitors for not joining Only the Hated during the KCR era, where E9 then decided it would be in the interest of him and his allies to get rid of Artem, though he also saw what the General saw in the costly process of taming and managing the resistance that would come from the primarily Russian population of Women's bay, and so he decided to create a plan to subdue Artem without managing full control over the region, and in December of 2014, under the command of Brigadier Cassidy, an EO force rallied in Red Hook and launched an attack on the Fairgrounds Battery through Rezanof Road, after a 2 day siege the heavily guarded Fairgrounds Battery was defeated by the overwhelming EO forces, which left Women's Bay near defenseless, only being guarded by the last few reserve squads under Artem's Command, where Cassidy then seized the opportunity and ordered his forces across the bridge into the streets of Women's Bay, where eventually Artem was cornered in an alley during a street skirmish, eventually being forced to surrender, Artem was escorted to Valdez by boat where E9 then proposed a compromise with Artem, offering Artem governance over central women's bay, in between Sargent and Russian Creek, called the "Sargent Creek Autonomous Zone", Artem having no choice but to accept was then sent back to Women's bay and the remainder of his militia was released back into his command severely diminished, with EO now keeping the Fairgrounds Battery as a military supply hub and recruitment centre to recruit a volunteer force from the inhabitants of women's bay.