Wonderland conspiracy

Around 2024-2025, a **conspiracy** seeded in the deep state of the United States government sought to achieve a new revolution of power and control by bringing about the destruction of the old political climate of the world and rise a new from its ashes, **the Wonderland**, also known as the **Wonderland Project** by various other people who knew of the project, such as Ralph Rager.

Former United States Army Special Forces commando Cole D. Walker wrote in his private journal that he compares the Wonderland to how World War One was started with the assassination of Duke Ferdinand, that eventually brought about a new era of advancements in the following decades. Walker hoped the Wonderland will bring the same results.

## Origins

Former United States Army Special Forces commando Cole Walker used to be part of a special operations unit within the United States Army, known as the Ghosts. and sometime between 2019 and 2022, Walker was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, in effect becoming the Secondary Commander of the Ghosts.

In February 22, 2022, he was deployed alongside Nomad and several other Ghosts to the Middle East to conduct counter-terrorism operations under the command of Vaughan. Throughout the tour, Walker grew irritated as Vaughan's incompetence that often hampered the unit's efforts to combat insurgents. This rivalry and annoyance would come to a head during one fateful incident, where Vaughan accidentally killed an Afghan villager following a scuffle. After attempting to kill Walker and plant evidence, an angered Walker executed him. Vaughan was later discovered to be the son of a prominent US Senator back in the United States, leading to Walker being court-martialed and medically discharged from the armed forces. Following this incident, Walker Walker suffered a mental breakdown, believing that he had suffered an injustice, with his suspicions over the apparent politicization of the military now fully cemented. As a result, he went rogue and created the Wolves, with backing from corrupt CIA deputy director Peter Miles. Going rogue, Walker led a devastating attack on Fort Bragg, the headquarters of the Ghosts, in North Carolina.

Ghost operator codenamed "Nomad" and his commanding officer, Scott Mitchell, as well as the other Ghosts, repelled the Wolves, but they were unable to catch Cole, who along with his Wolves escaped. Following this, he went to Auroa, an archipelago that happened to be the headquarters of Skell Tech, a drone manufacturing company, and its CEO Jace Skell, who hired Cole as his military adviser and later Trey Stone, the CEO of a private military contractor named Sentinel, as part of his security team following a terrorist attack committed by a group of technophobes calling themselves the Outcasts.

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. Unbeknownst to Skell, Stone and Walker wanted to test the drones out of boundaries. However, at this point Skell had a crisis of conscience after learning of a drone test in South America that led to collateral damage. He rebelled against Walker and Stone and went into hiding. 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, which promptly caused the US to start investigating what was happening in the archipelago.

Fearing for the exposure of the conspiracy, Peter Miles authorized Operation Citadel, a takeover of the archipelago via a lockdown of the entire archipelago and the implementation of martial law to prevent the secret from going out.

In response to all these events, the United States government planned a military intervention to investigate. However, political maneuverings and moles within the US government successfully convinces the President to instead deploy a platoon of Ghosts to investigate the island, with the intention of wiping out the elite unit upon arriving at the island. With this, under the direction of the Central Intelligence Agency, the President was manipulated by Senator Lomax to appoint CIA Deputy Director Peter Miles to co-lead the operation, something that Ghost Recon commander Scott Mitchell was skeptical of. Reluctantly agreeing in the end, Mitchell appointed Ghost Lead Dominic "Nomad" Rubio to lead the 32 men and women onto the island as part of the investigation. Weeks later, Operation Greenstone was launched: departing upon the USS Wasp, the Ghost Platoon was divided into 4 teams (each team 8 people), arriving at the island roughly a week after Sentinel's takeover.

The conspiracy on Auroa didn't just attract the suspicion of the United States government, however: civilian investigator and student Ralph Rager got wind of the conspiracy after seeing a panicked email from a friend who lived on the island while he was vacationing with his family in Australia. The email implored him to come to the island and expose what was happening. To that end, Ralph assembled an investigative expedition collaboratively led by his older brother Brock Rager, his sisters Jordyn, Judith and Sierra Rager, and his cousins Rodney and Laura Batt. The same day Operation Greenstone was launched, the Ragers and the Batts acquired a plane and flew to Auroa.