A basic Ascendancy! brainstorm/series of events.

A basic Ascendancy! brainstorm/series of events.

\*(BEFORE) The British Isles burn is doubled over for good measure, London burns again.

\*The Algerian national (speech guy) calls for a united front after bombing a firefly in drydock while its stationed in France. France is like time to vote now.

\*A tribunal in the PanAfrikan Upper Parliament discusses who to vote for in the new, rushed vie for a new Imperial Capital state. They support Kenya.

\*A workers' riot in Namibia casts off a foreign company. Its security corporation,

Skullcrest, fights the civilians prompting a federal arrest of the agents there. SWAT mission style episode. At the end, Skullcrest-allied fireflies seabreak off the Namibian coast. The people scatter in fear, thinking the French are trying and Algeria thing again, but its actually KESTREL, who bombards the area. Kestrel announces that "[he] has heard of the enduring insurrection and [he has] kept the Outer Planets alive by squashing such ideas. Allow me to extract my men, or I will enact justice on you tenfold."

\*Patton flies a helicopter into the coast to pick up the landing bouy from Kestrel's firefly. He touches base with the EU forces that were happy to deliver Kestrel where he wanted after Skullcrest helped fight the Scourge and defend their holdings. Patton is like Gothic America and the Syndicalist bloc bad. Kestrel is like sure i getchu. Kestrel plans a fight against the bloc, using some data he got from the planetside forces and stuff, but partway through, the heli is attacked by an assassin and Kestrel tracks her down and grabs her. A GOTHIC AMERICAN asset.

\*Gothic American flags fly along with many others as nations gather in Mombassa to celebrate Kenya's placement as the new capital. When the celebrations are done, the Kenyan president leaves the hotel with a German official, Chinese offical, and Mexican Gothic general some collegic friends from a Lunar hospital before Luna's fall. They laugh and talk about all htey've lost and hope to rebuild as they realize something is going on in the hotel. Gunshots ring and they quickly vacate he area calling in the natl' guard and military.

\*"Your petty new Capital cannot protect you. It bends and beckons to the weakest links in the human chain. We must be fervent. Strong. and Maintain order to herald a new humanity.--" "Turn that \*\*\*\* off, man!" -- "What!? Know Thine enemy, right!?" -- \*DOOR NOISE\* -- "Alright, people. EU and PMC forces have been crossing the border into Social Bloc countries through XYZ highways. We're on Y duty, breaking the blitz trudging forward until we can make a hole for German allies." -- "Isn't Germany in the EU?" -- "Not anymore. It's among seven defecting countries all of which are surrounded by enemies right now." -- (sar) "Sounds easy enough." -- (sar) "Right?" -- "Sorry for the last minute update, boys, but it seems we're really in the thick of it." -- (tank fight Central Asia v baddie EU!) -- \*pull up augr\* -- [Do you speak Farsi?] -- What? -- [Yes, a little] -- [Good] We'll need it in case they compromised our comms. -- That'd be great if I understoo... woah! We're rolling past Ankara now... -- [God, I hear it.] -- Turkiye's kept them engaged for hours. -- No breaking through the old Imperial military HQ, huh? -- But, wait: [How do they have enough ordinance to keep the whole base engaged? There wasn't anything left.] -- [It is entire countries' worth. I stole a look at the casualty reports...] -- How bad...? -- [100,000 deaths so far in just this theater.] -- You're not good at keeping morale, sergeant. -- You asked. -- What she say? What are you talking about? -- %both%: You don't wanna know. -- \*BOOM\* -- COMM: We've been engaged! -- [Tanks!?] -- IFVs! -- [Where do you want us to deploy!?] -- The River. [Intercept them.] -- How close are we? -- Close. Prepare to disembark! -- HOO-AHH! -- Grab that heli-buster. -- He said IFV's, shouldn't we save it? -- I know what I said. -- It's thirty extra kilos! -- [I know what I said!] -- I'll just carry it. Yeah. -- \*Rev up to side.\* -- Out! Out! -- C'mon boys! Let's go! [Hurry!] --

\*The fleet of fireflies has engaged Algeria. losing many of its number and they're on their way to Ghana of Panafrika. Social Bloc forces are currently engaged so Panafrikan forces engage the fireflies with help from all of Afrika. The fight goes troubling, but at the last second before glassing, the coupling falls off, venting the plasma and misfiring the beam. A Gothic American accent (drab CA drawl) pipes in affirming that they hacked the Firefly.

\*Refugees start flooding into East Asian region countries from various sources. So many, that the steps of the East Asian Regional Commission in West China is flooded with the sick and hurt. A Laoatian official helps folks hurt on the steps and there's a small debate as they try to get them into the building. The official helps a young woman find her son amidst the chaos as they know they area better and right when the xenophobia could overtake them, they realize they did a really good deed actually.

\*Broken spirits at home lead to an uprising in the EU. Skullcrest and National forces alike are attacked to get a bomb or something into a military HQ.

\*Skullcrest launches a raid on the colonial authority of Colombia. Trying to extract data and steal hookships from the colonization efforts.

Kestrel's fleet fascilitates the forceful evactuation of vast swathes of the higher echelons of Riversie. Once in space, they're contacted by Arden and Zri. They're engaged and the phyllidae swipes past the two fireflies, landing in the oceans of earth. ready for the next ascendancy story.

1 - Speech

2 - Debate

3 - Riot and Kestrel's Return

4 - Patton's Rescue and Assassination

5 - Capital

6 - Blitz

7 - Line of Fire

8 - Refugees

9 - Colonies

10 - Evac

The Late 23rd century was a time of cold war and strife. Weapons systems were pioneered and doubled over time after time. Doctrines were changed and ideas once thought outlandish were tried. The late Empire wrestled with the restrictions on warfare it once held. Including but not limited to the ban on combat computers. Scientists in Germany, Azerbaijan, Namibia, and Panafrika had independent collaboration efforts to produce a drone based paratrooper tank. The systems issues however, proved to be much too difficult to operate, especially with the stress and heat damage they were expected to suffer in the field. So, the platform's computer systems were hollowed out and cleared for a single occupant to enter and operate with some better shielded computer assistance. -- It fought well in the Solar Civil War