Operation Wrecking Ball

Ahab sneaking through enemy lines

### Objective(s)

Recon Russian troop movements on behalf of Ukraine (Ostensibly)Plunge the Far East into darkness (actual objective)

### Outcome

Operation successful:* EMP plunges North Korea, South Korea, and parts of China, Russia, Indonesia, and Australia into darkness.
* Russian forces scattered.
* Chaos and anarchy in North Korea, China and Russia.
* Countless Russians, North Koreans and China die without power.

The **2023 Far East Incident**, (also known as **Operation Wrecking Ball** and **Bloody Christmas** by those who participated in it), was an international incident involving the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Australia, Canada, and many other nations.

## Background

*For more information on context, see* Russian Invasion of Ukraine*,* Israel-Hamas War and 2023 Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip.

As the wars between Russia and Ukraine and Israel and Hamas dragged on, many grew upset and even outraged at the number of atrocities committed on both sides. However, very few people were willing to take action against either side.

Meanwhile, former British special operations commando codenamed "Ahab" held a grudge against both Hamas, the Chinese, the North Koreans, and the Russians. Seething over losses courtesy of all four factions, he sought to punish Hamas, China, North Korea, and Russia for their role in several separate atrocities he'd been involved in: he wanted retribution against North Korea for its role in the death of Otto Warmbier, a friend of his family, China for its aggression against Taiwan and the perceived murder of his uncle, the entire Russian Federation for war crimes committed against Ukraine, and Hamas for its atrocities against Israel on October 7, 2023.

"Ahab" specifically sought to avenge close friends who had been murdered or kidnapped by Hamas during the Re'im Music Festival Massacre, many of whom attended the event at the time of the terrorist attack. Rallying like-minded American, British, Israeli, and Ukrainian military officers who sympathized with him regarding all four grievances, Ahab assembled a task force he claimed would "deal with the enemies of the British Crown."

With help from rogue elements within both MI6 and the CIA, Ahab located a high-tech Russian military submarine docked near Petropavlovsk and claimed to his team he had intentions to destroy it. Unbeknownst to his men, Ahab's true intention was to hijack the submarine, and then launch and detonate inter-continental ballistic missiles over the Gaza strip, Russia and the Far East.

## The incident

### Russian village assault

In the early morning of December 25, 2023, "Ahab" led an international team consisting of renegade American, British, Canadian, Australian, and even Israeli military soldiers in an infiltration mission in Petropavlovsk, Russia. Wearing military fatigues, the squad evaded Russian military patrols before encountering a BTR-80.

After evading the Russian vehicle by hiding in a forest, the team began methodically picking off Russian patrols one by one before regrouping with a larger force of fellow rogue military operatives gathered near an abandoned Russian village.

Minutes later, the rogue military operatives engaged Russian soldiers in an intense firefight that consumed both the abandoned Russian village and the nearby base where the sub was docked, inflicting heavy casualties. They were able to secure the village within a matter of minutes.

### Hijacking the submarine

After ordering a separate cadre of his men to provide overwatch, Ahab assembled a strike team and infiltrated the submarine. Once inside, they executed a massacre, killing numerous crew members as they fought their way to the bridge. They then breach the bridge, killing all the sailors within and their commanding officer.

### Detonating the missiles

Ahab's second-in-command, a fellow rogue MI6 operative codenamed "Hagar", requested a status report, with Ahab confirming that they had breached the bridge. Hagar asked for an estimate as to how long it would take to destroy the submarine, but got no answer. Instead, Ahab began opening the submarine missile silos, much to Hagar's confusion.

Hagar demanded to know what Ahab was doing. Ahab responded by launching and detonating three submarine-launched ballistic missiles over the Gaza Strip, Moscow, Russia, and the Far East respectively. The resulting electromagnetic pulses knocked out electricity for the entirety of the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese archipelago and Israel, as well as parts of China, Siberia, Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, and even the American state of Alaska, United States.

## Reactions

The world was stunned to learn of the EMP attacks, with many initially believing that the EMPs were the results of a nuclear missile test by either North Korea or Russia that went horribly wrong. However, once subsequent investigations by each of the affected countries uncovered evidence of foul play, tensions were raised as all of the affected countries began suspecting one another of being responsible.