Auroan Insurgency

"You will be on a battlefield full of Ghosts! But only you have that hunger! That hunger that makes you Wolves!"- Cole D. Walker
The Auroan Insurgency is a military conflict involving multiple parties that engulfed the archipelago of Auroa. It occurred in the year 2021.
== Background ==
Main articles: Operation Citadel 
After the Outcasts' bombing of the Skell Foundation Head Office, Jace Skell wanted to bring more security on the island, together with the help of Sentinel. As part of that deal, Lieutenant Colonel Cole D. Walker was brought in as a military advisor for Skell Technology, to further improve the combat prowess of the drones. As such, Project Omega was initiated, to develop next generation combat drones to secure peace with maximum efficiency.
However, Skell had no idea of the conspiracy that was seeding behind the curtains, with Sentinel and Walker wanting to test the drones out of boundaries. Unbeknownst to Skell, this was part of a conspiracy against the United States government, codenamed Wonderland. After the drones were limitedly tested in South America with relative success, though with reports of collateral damage, Jace Skell realized the dangers of his creations and rebelled against Walker and Sentinel. Skell disappeared and while in his absence, Walker continued his work toward his LINCHPIN project as well as world peace by force, the Wonderland. Sentinel attempted to ship out the drones abroad, but Jace Skell managed to access the Legion swarm remotely to sink the cargo vessel shipping the drones, in a desperate bid to provoke a US military intervention. Unbeknownst to him, the sinking of the cargo ship did attract attention, though not from the United States government but Perseus, a Russia-based international spy ring and underground network of rogue military operators and espionage agents. Coincidentally, Perseus had learned about the drone production on Auroa and sought to steal technology from Skell Tech as part of their own conspiracy to destroy US hegemony worldwide, and had launched an operation of their own to deploy agents to Auroa with the intention of committing corporate espionage. 
Fearing for the exposure of the conspiracy, CIA Deputy Director Peter Miles authorized Operation Citadel by locking down the entire archipelago under martial law to prevent the secret from going out. Fearing that the US would send military personnel to investigate, Peter Miles authorized Operation Greenstone in the hopes that the occupying forces will stop the Ghosts from discovering anything, and to test the newly founded Wolves. 
=== Operation Briefing ===
Unfortunately for both Peter Miles, Cole Walker, Jace Skell and Trey Stone, it wasn't the United States military that soon arrived on Auroa's doorstep, but agents loyal to the international spy ring known as Perseus, Trey Stone's own nephews Seymour and Ernie, civlian investigators Ralph Rager and Rocco Cowan, and North Korea's Korean People's Army.
Prior to Operation Citadel being launched, civilian investigator Ralph Rager and his friend Rocco Cowan had received an urgent email from a friend of theirs asking for assistance in investigating "sketchy business deals" occurring on Auroa. In response they assembled an expedition to Auroa to look into what was happening.
Meanwhile, North Korea, intending to annex Auroa for its own ends, teamed up with an international spy ring known as Perseus to use the comms blackout on Auroa as cover to infiltrate and invade the island, under the pretense of "investigating" the comms blackout. 
== Events of the operation ==
=== Drone ambush ===
In mid-May of 2021, Perseus operatives and Korean People's Army soldiers jointly deploy helicopters to Auroa. Everything is going normal, until the helicopters are suddenly attacked and crash. Meanwhile, Ralph Rager and his friends try to land on Auroa by boat, only to be attacked by what appear to be a swarm of drones. They are found by resistance fighters calling themselves Outcasts and brought to their headquarters at South Cape Station, where they receive medical attention for their injuries.
Meanwhile, Wraith regains consciousness after ending up in a tree. She witnesses something attacking another helicopter, which crashes to the ground. She then falls out of the tree and lands next to a dead Perseus operative. She commandeers the dead man's pistol, bandages her wounds, and hurries off to find other survivors.
=== Witness to a massacre ===
Witnessing hostile soldiers executing stragglers, Freya makes her way to each crash site, discovering to her horror that many Perseus agents have been executed. As she evades and eliminates various hostile patrols, Wraith is able to ID her attackers as hired mercenaries, with possible special forces background. 
At some point, she witnesses Perseus operatives being ambushed and massacred by unknown masked soldiers. An enraged Wraith engages the enemy soldiers to avenge her fallen comrades, at one point managing to kill one particular soldier who appeared to be leading the kill team. After eliminating the enemy forces, Wraith identifies the leader of the kill team as Cole Denholm Walker, an acquaintance of Wraith and a former United States Special Operations commando whom she'd learned sometime ago had been dealing with psychological issues. The discovery both enrages and baffles Wraith, who concludes that Walker had become a power-hungry madman who had succumbed to capitalist propaganda. 
Going through a Cold War era base, she eventually discovers a working radio, which she uses to call for help. Her SOS is answered by a mysterious voice directing her to find a cave hidden in the mountains.
Meanwhile, a surviving unit of KPA soldiers establish a beachead on Golem Island and proceed to investigate the rest of the island. Searching the island, they discover alarming evidence of a top-secret project codenamed Transcendence. 
=== Welcome to the Outcasts ===
After being taken in by the Outcasts, Ralph Rager and Rocco Cowan decide to ally themselves with the Outcasts out of gratitude for sheltering them. They also learn that Auroa had been taken over by the unknown hostile army of soldiers, revealed to be private military contractors working for Sentinel. As they aid the Outcasts in launching raids against Sentinel and recruiting new members to the Outcasts, Ralph and company discover documents pertaining to a drone project codenamed CLAW and its connection to a trans-humanist project known as Transcendence.
Ralph and Rocco are able to transform the Outcasts into a formidable foe on Auroa. They even manage to recruit Sentinel deserter Anna Becker, who decided to resign from Sentinel upon learning that Sentinel was responsible for war crimes against innocent people in the name of "protecting Auroa from terrorists". They also learn that Becker had accidentally stumbled upon a business deal between Sentinel and Raven's Rock as part of a conspiracy to commit an act of terrorism against the United States, which formed her main motive for resigning from Sentinel. 
When word of the Outcasts' increasingly brazen attacks reaches the attention of Sentinel CEO Trey Stone, he decides to retaliate by having Sigrid Bloom, an Outcast spokeswoman and former director of a local hospital on the island, arrested and executed. 
Later on, Becker learns that another Sentinel officer, Anton Gibson, had expressed intentions to defect after having a falling out with Stone and requested assistance in extracting Gibson. Ralph and Rocco do so, and learn that Gibson had been investigating a series of kidnappings perpetrated Sentinel on behalf of a mysterious employer who called himself "the Strategist", which got him arrested. 
Deciding to see if anyone else survived the Sentinel ambush, Ralph Rager told Ito of his intentions to continue searching for other survivors. Though initially hesitant, Ito eventually gave Ralph her blessing, as well as pledging support for any future investigations. Ralph responded by informing her about Project Transcendence before moving on. 
=== Investigating Transcendence ===
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=== Meeting the Homesteaders ===
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=== Stopping Project CLAW ===
Ralph and Rocco learn that Sam Fisher had been deployed to Auroa alongside his friend Victor Coste, under the guise of Operation Checkmate, working for the latter's private security company, Paladin 9 about a few months before Operation: Citadel happened. While Victor is ostensibly working alongside Sentinel to provide logistical support, the duo are actually investigating the kidnappings of military specialists that are traced back to an individual on the island known as "The Strategist". Remembering Anton Gibson's information on the Strategist, Ralph and Rocco track down both men to gain more intel.
Along the way, Ralph runs into Wraith, who at this point is revealed to be Freya Helvig, Ralph Rager's ex from college. Despite being initially astounded that they had been investigating the same man, Ralph and Freya agree to work together. Both of them later decide to team up with Fisher after it was discovered that several Perseus operatives from Wraith's team had been captured by the Strategist. 
After making contact with and enlisting the help of system analyst Hollie Mackenzie, entomologist Willem Van Dyke, patent legal adviser Stephanie Burgess, the project's former Head of VIP security detail Karel Sekulic, they discover that the Strategist's real name is Leon Fairrow, one of the co-founders of Lomax-Fairrow Industries. Both Fairrow and his co-founding partner, Republican Senator Michael Lomax, are part of a conspiracy that involves high-ranking members of various U.S. government agencies and private development firms to create the drones. They also learn that the CIA had sent Fisher after noticing Fairrow's apathy towards the kidnappings. 
Deciding that they must take Fairrow down, Perseus operatives under Wraith and Outcasts led by Ralph, Rocco, and Haruhi launch a coordinated assault on the Channels R&D Center, where the CLAW Project is being run. They manage to take down multiple waves of attack drones deployed by the Strategist and confront the Strategist, who is apprehended by Sam Fisher. With help from Hollie Mackenzie, Fisher and Coste manage to evacuate on board the C-147B Paladin with Fairrow in-tow and force him to testify before Congress; in the hopes that his testimony will convince them to officially launch a US military invasion of Auroa to remove Sentinel from the archipelago. 
Meanwhile, Ralph Rager and Rocco Cowan discover that Fisher's intel was inaccurate and that the Strategist wasn't just targeting military specialists as part of the kidnappings, but also innocent civilians, most notably a young college student named Emma Taylor, a United Nations official from Turkey named Isin Turkyilmaz, and Dr. Sigrid Bloom, whom they discover had not been executed as claimed by Stone, but died as a result of being forcibly subjected to Project CLAW. 
=== Operation Red Patriot ===
The events of Project CLAW caught the attention of the United States government. In addition, DedSec hackers managed to leak evidence of Trey Stone's collaboration with Russia on a terrorist plot to the United States government. As a result, the US deployed a US Special Operations unit known as the Ghosts to put a stop to the threat. Under the leadership of Ghost Recon commander Scott Mitchell, Ghost Recon field commander Dominic "Nomad" Rubio teamed up with Ralph Rager and launched a series of daring attacks against the Raven's Rock leadership, eventually culminating in a military raid that killed Stone. Thanks to the classified nature of the operation, it is unknown who exactly was responsible for killing Stone, though there are conflicting accounts that claim either Nomad, Ralph Rager, or the Outcasts killed Stone. 
=== Konni Group invades ===
Sometime after Trey Stone's death, the occupation force on Auroa was significantly weakened due to in-fighting amongst both the Wolves and Sentinel. The Outcasts, emboldened by the enemy civil war, went on the offensive and began launching daring attacks against Wolf and Sentinel camps across the archipelago.
Meanwhile, Ralph Rager and his comrades were celebrating the victories against Project CLAW and Red Patriot when they suddenly received alarming news: a new enemy had invaded Auroa, apparently as part of a massive operation by the Russian Federation to steal Skell Tech drones and weaponize them for acts of terrorism.
After being shown surveillance photos from both Outcasts and Homesteaders, Ralph and company were stunned and horrified to learn that their new enemy was actually one they had faced years ago in Bolivia: a Russian private military contractor known as Konni Group.
=== War against Konni Group ===
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=== Return of Keres Legion ===
Sometime after the events of the Amber Sky Conspiracy, Ralph learns that another foe he'd first encountered in Bolivia had made its return: Keres Legion, a mysterious Mercenary Organization with terrorist ties. He first learned this after hacking into Sentinel communications and learning that both Sentinel, Wolves and remaining Bodark forces were being massacred by a mysterious man calling himself "Deimos", a name Ralph immediately recognized from his adventures in Bolivia years ago. 
== Aftermath ==
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