The Chad Zone

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==History==
===Pre-war===
A crossroads of Africa for thousands of years that hosted many African empires, Chad was colonized in 1900 by France, incorporating the colony into French Equatorial Africa in 1920 after finally overcoming stiff native resistance. Chad itself was generally neglected by France as a colony during this time, only used as a source of cotton and labour and considered unimportant. 
In 1940, Chad was the first French colony to support Free France, and was rewarded with status as an overseas territory and the right to elect representatives to the French National Assembly, as well as their own parliament. Chad then became an independent nation in 1960. The nation's first president soon banned all opposition parties, and dissatisfaction with his rule led to Chad falling into civil war in 1965. In 1979, rebels took the national capital, causing the collapse of Chad's central authority. Chad's northern neighbor Libya attempted to take advantage of the situation by laying claim to the Aouzou Strip; an area the subject of a negotiation of ownership between the French and Italian governments in 1935 that was never ratified. Between 1978 to 1987, Chad and Libya would conduct a series of military campaigns against one another, concluding with the disastrous Toyota War that saw Libya lose all ground it had gained over Chad.
The Chadian government that survived throughout the war with French support continued to control Chad through a dictatorship based on corruption, prejudice and violence. A military coup in 1990 saw the dictator overthrown. The Chadian general that took his place as the country's ruler attempted to make amends with rebel groups and reintroduce multiparty politics. However, once oil exploitation in Chad began in 2003, internal dissent worsened, leading to a second civil war and war against Sudan in 2005, which appeared to be supporting the rebels. The president removed the term limits set in place and continued to rule the country all the way to 2014. 
===Human-Vannai War===
The French military garrison (FFTc) that had been operating out of N'Djamena since the launch of Operation Epervier and in preparation for Operation Barkhane represented a fairly substantial commitment of military forces to the region. However, with the situation in France at the time being unclear, the decision was made to remain in place and ensure that their original mission of maintaining stability in North Africa was maintained.
In-mid 2016, however, German soldiers invaded northern France, slaughtering French civilians and instigating the Intervention War. After two years of continuous peacekeeping efforts, isolated from their homeland, the 4000-strong French force could not let this act of German barbarism go unpunished. Leaving a small garrison of 300 soldiers behind, the French finally returned to Europe. Unfortunately, leaving with them went a significant amount of the current Chadian government’s strength. Rebel forces saw this as the perfect opportunity to strike and launched a coup, successfully installing General Marcus Achta as the country’s ruler. 
General Achta, unwilling to entertain the possibility of giving up his newfound control over the country to Mauritania, began looking for ways to increase his military’s power. The French garrison, wary of the country’s new leadership, could not be relied upon to protect Achta any more than they had managed to protect the country’s previous ruler; in fact, Achta suspected that the French may assassinate him to take control themselves directly. Thus, he began exploring his options, soon coming into contact with Kantoku Corporation.
At around this time, Kantoku Corp’s aggressive expansion into countries freed of Vannai Puppet presence had brought itself under international scrutiny, and it had found itself blocked or pushed out of the nations that had already recovered fastest and strongest. Instead, it had to look elsewhere for further expansion, and it just so happened that the strife-ridden nation of Chad was eager to accept outside support. Kantoku Corp promised General Achta almost everything he wanted - weapons, infrastructure, food, leisure. However, Achta had a grand vision of himself at the head of a powerful, completely loyal army, and it was here that Kantoku began to hesitate. While Kantoku Corp’s Watchmen were unquestionably loyal, they were intended exclusively for Engineer use. Similarly, providing Gernadder troops to anyone outside of Kantoku was absolutely forbidden, as they were intended to remain a secret, as with the Nekommandos.
Unfortunately, during one of many meetings with General Achta and a Kantoku spokesman, the representative let slip that a supersoldier program had once been in development, but that further development had been halted after the program was discovered. General Achta, however, was extremely interested, finally having been teased the very thing he’d been wanting the whole time. At Achta’s insistence (possibly under pain of death), the spokesman reluctantly agreed to provide a sample of the “supersoldier product” as long as Achta was willing to provide a volunteer to undergo the procedure. Finding a volunteer was unsurprisingly not an issue for General Achta.
Elsewhere in Africa, Mauritania continued to expand, overwhelming their technologically superior neighbors with sheer numbers and arming themselves with war spoils. On the other side of North Africa, Egypt and Libya had fallen under the control of jihadists, and were likewise looking to expand further. To the south, Ebola was ravaging the west African states, while Vannai Puppets bereft of primary targets roamed throughout central Africa. Between these various forces, Achta felt pressured to gain a “miracle army” to secure his rule, and was unconcerned with Kantoku’s warnings over “unknown side effects” and “insufficient testing” of the Forced Evolution Mutagen that Editi had nearly unleashed on the world in 2015. The FEM transformed Achta’s volunteer into a 10ft tall, 300lbs, grey-skinned monster. The Kantoku scientists present for the experiment dubbed their creation a “FEMoid”, but Achta quickly declared this beast his “champion”, and demanded his personal guard undergo the procedure next. Kantoku, which by that point was already in the process of establishing permanent facilities in N'Djamena, constructed a “conversion facility” to speed up the process as Achta’s demands for a grand army increased in scale.
Lieutenant-colonel Alain Villette, commander of the French garrison forces, had watched Achta’s army of mutants grow over the course of several months and was faced with a difficult situation. Vilette understood that the original goal of Operation Barkhane was no longer accomplishable, and that the French garrison no longer had the capability to maintain peace in north Africa. Achta’s mutant soldiers, while maintaining most of their former intellect, quickly developed a reputation for belligerence and aggression, amplifying the tension between Achta’s government and the garrison force. Vilette’s personal feeling on the matter was that Achta was building an army of monsters that would only add to the myriad of woes in Africa. However, there had been no word from the French force that had returned to Europe, and with only 300 men, Vilette felt that Achta’s tolerance of the French would only last as long as it took for him to decide to launch his own campaign of conquest of Africa. That Vilette had done nothing to prevent Achta’s coup from occurring in the first place had also weighed on his conscience. Thus, by the end of 2016, Vilette finally decided that Achta needed to be forcibly removed from power.
The French coup, led personally by LtCol. Vilette, quickly stormed the National Assembly building, encountering Achta’s mutant bodyguards. The mutants proved to be every bit as formidable as Achta had believed them to be, however, and put up a fierce fight. Achta was killed during the battle, while Vilette was fatally wounded. Realizing that the mutant army was far more powerful than he had believed and now completely uncontrollable, Vilette’s final order was to have the French garrison make a full retreat to Gabon and avoid annihilation at the hands of the mutant army.
===Post-war===
Without central leadership, Chad rapidly descended into savage anarchy as the hyper-violent mutants butted heads over who would be next in charge. Various figureheads competed not only through personal strength, but through who could amass the most followers, and before long the FEM conversion went from being “strongly encouraged” to forced upon whomever the mutants could grab. Chad society disintegrated as more and more Chadians were converted into mutant supersoldiers, and this unrestrained aggression was not limited to inside of Chad. The Mauritanian army, upon crossing into Chad’s borders, returned with harrowing tales of towering monsters of rage and muscle capable shrugging off bullets, and those who manage to survive combat against these terrifying towers of muscle are dragged away to be forcibly mutated and pressed into their ranks. Much superstition and fear surrounds Chad as a result.
Now lacking any form of government or human population, the region formerly occupied by the nation of Chad is now referred to simply as the “Chad Zone”; a dark region from which few who venture into ever return.
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