STATO: RoJ

### **Meta information:**

STATO: Rise of El Jefe originated as a longwinded (and unfunny) joke from one of the founding members, MJM (For their privacy) which was loosely listened to by the STATO (Classic) gamemaster EVP and was considered a half-decent idea. MJM took it upon themselves to begin creating lore establishing what was originally meant to be a sub-campaign for STATO (Classic) but quickly spiraled into more content and eventually became a standalone that overshadowed STATO (Classic). EVP, excited to play and work on Arma after a long dry period, began creating customized assets and factions to meet the lore that MJM made, while GSV and other members expanded on and gave ideas along the route. STATO: RoJ has become much more organized and structured in comparison to STATO (Classic) by using a similar game plan/model with increased insight from all sides, additional mods, and over-zealous lore writing.

### **General Lore:**

In 2035 the Arctic disappeared among other environmental disasters, in 2037 the great revelation of the flat Earth and the most humanity-deciding event in history occurred: The Chunko Charge was created and detonated. Shortly after, since the world was destabilized, the Great Nick Empire reaches it’s height, controlling almost the entire world in 2040. From then until now the world fell into a Balkanized power vacuum, featuring the extensive use of PMC’s, formerly considered war crimes, and salvaged or refitted equipment among other things.

It is now the year 2089, over 50 years since the detonation of the Chunko Charge. The world has slowly restabilized somewhat, more technology is being salvaged and nations are building up their industries and infrastructure once again, though the intense power vacuum not only still exists, but is stronger than before. Nations are still mostly employing private forces offensively and using actual troops defensively or extremely sparingly, as such the PMC market has exploded since the 2040’s; as well as some larger nations from the 2040’s like the Afrikan Union have broken down into smaller factions caught in their own power vacuum. Many people suspect that the PMC’s are in fact hiring one another to cause instabilities like the Afrikan Union’s collapse to expand their market and keep their careers going. Though recently a great threat to the weakened nations of the world has appeared: El Jefe. El Jefe’s cartel has grown and stretched all over Central and South America, taking complete economic control and puppeting the governments via planting officials that support him in office. El Jefe produces and peddles the majority of drugs, illegal and legal, along with basic equipment like weapons, ammo, and uniforms across the global market. Due to the massive volume and dirt cheap prices, nearly everyone that isn’t an enemy of El Jefe buys from him. Though what makes his economic power concrete is his near monopoly on women, with the Chunko Charge disproportionately affecting women with infertility, cancer, and sudden death; along with the high demand in the collapsing world, a single woman is worth nearly 1/10 of one of the 5 supposed remaining atomic weapons (Which El Jefe is rumored to have at least two). Starting in late 2088 El Jefe gathered enough equipment and manpower to introduce his own PMC, LSJJ: Los Soldados del Jefe Jalisco. It’s been 4 months and they’ve almost secured a stranglehold on the PMC market. How could they have done this? Easily: They didn’t try to compete with the other groups, they planted moles, bribed members, or simply tracked down the other groups... then slaughtered them like animals, torturing any survivors or any who surrendered as an example for the world. At the global height of the PMC market, the 2070’s there was easily 150 notable groups, now in 2089 there is less than 30. Not only has LSJJ eliminated the competition, with El Jefe’s massive economic and military influence, once powerhouses like the Sander's Dynasty prepare to bend the knee.

### **Threads of conflict:**

Major:

Cartel Del Jefe Jalisco vs the world - Because of the Cartel's monopolies and aggressive strategies on other nations and PMC's, the Sander's Dynasty leading from the nation side and EZPZ leading from the PMC side; and of course excluding nations or PMC's that rely on the Cartel's trade entirely or nearly entirely. So far there have been no major offensives but minor skirmishes and politicking. (Active since 2088)

Afrika wars - Afrikan Union, Al'Dakn Union, Kingdom of Branca, Madagrafrika, Msitu Chiefdom, Zakara Chiefdom, and their massive amount of foreign influences in a free-for-all for gaining land and resources stemming from the rumored incitement of secessions and conflict in Afrika by PMC's and other outside groups. (Active since 2067)

Eastern chaos - Japan vs the Sander's Dynasty for Japan to expand and to challenge the Dynasty's strength (Active since 2088). As well as the Etan Khanate vs the Sander's Dynasty, the Sergio Dynasty, and the Pustoy Federation over the expansions of the Etan Khanate. (Active since 2078)

Minor:

Challenge of the Bardagammen - People's Republic of Greenland and the Bardagammen vs the Nordjen Alliance over the downing of two Bardagammen; with notable amount of foreign influences wanting the Nordjen's RBS 97 or wanting to protect the historic authority and beauty of the Bardagammen. (Active since 2085)

White's rage ravages still - The White State against the Nordjen and European Alliances. After the UK was ejected from the European Alliance in 2066, the White State went on the attack and conquered all of the UK, ending in 2068. Since 2075 the White State as a nation has been covertly funding PMC's and minor terror groups in the Nordjen Alliance and the European Alliance, and is suspected to be -- but is not confirmed to be -- using White State agents as a terror group in the Nordjen Alliance and the European Alliance, they have not fought back due to active conflicts elsewhere and a lack of solid proof on the White State nation that they are officially involved. (Active since 2075)

The Sindikaat's sins - Marklonian Sindikaat (Supported by numerous outside groups) vs the Sander's Dynasty. Starting as holdouts from an exposed military coup plot of some Sanderonian Syndicate forces attempting to assassinate Sultan Samuel Sanders IV and place his third cousin once removed (and minister of fishing) Gerald Sanders I in 2059, the Sindikaat has since conducted a snowballing insurgency against the Dynasty. (Active since 2059)

### **RBS 97 Schwedischgewehr "Swedish Gun Missile"**

The infamous Swedish Gun Missile is a fear that has crossed every pilot's mind at one point or another as it almost always a moniker of the end of a pilot's life. The most-known name of these is actually somewhat misleading, as the Schwedischgewehr is actually a three round Anti Air Artillery Emplacement. The deadliness of the Schwedischgewehr comes from it's advanced technology, specifically it's ability fire at targets without warning as the 'missiles' are actually an extremely large bullet which cannot be tracked or identified in any way other than visually. While the appearence of the Schwedischgewehr is very similar to that of an AA missile, it actually fires three HEHVPGFSFSCCCRL (High Explosive Hyper-Velocity Pre-Guided Fin-Stabilized Flak Stealth-Coated Caseless Chamberless Rail-Launched) Rounds. These rounds are fired with a lead onto any air targets, a lead that is calculated by the Schwedischgewehr's advanced stratospheric reflective radar that finds targets seemingly through terrain through it's ability to reflect radar waves off of the stratosphere giving it capabilities similar to a short-range satellite. In addition to firing without warning, the Schwedischgewehr also shares it's lock on to an air target with any other Schwedischgewehr emplacements in a 40km radius, meaning that with multiple emplacements in an area it becomes impossible for a pilot to predict which Schwedischgewehr on their sensor-suite is actually firing at them. The Schwedischgewehr is also very well known as it also holds the record for the most (and only) kills on the also infamous Bardagamenn, making the Schwedischgewehr the only known actual threat to the Bardagamenn. The downing in question taking place in 2085 as the first notable sighting of the weapons system, the technology so advanced that it thought that the Nordjen Alliance may have possibly recieved the technology or the weapons platform as a whole from the Serbian Research Institute.