Aurora

The **Aurora Archipelago** is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, located near Indonesia. It is speculated that this archipelago broke away from the supercontinent Pangaea millions of years ago. It was also the main setting where the events of Operation Nest Wrecker occurred.

## History and overview

The biggest island in the archipelago is named Aurora Island. Aurora Island comprises of series of 11 individual biomes including marine estuaries and wetlands, arboreal forests, snow-capped mountains, fjords, and extinquished volcanoes. Up north are a series of smaller islets connected to the second tallest mountain of the archipelago next to an ancient collapsed volcano, known as Blackwood Island. To the south of the main island are series of smaller islands, known as the Windy Channels. An active volcano, known as Mount Golem, is located to the north-east of the archipelago, aptly known as as Golem Island. Golem Island is the location where Ralph Rager, his sister Brock, and his friend Rodney Batt discovered the existence of Operation Silver Golem, a top secret drone program created by Verus Rex. Directly to the west of Golem Island is a smaller island known as East Egg Island, and right next to that is a land mass almost as big as Aurora Island, known as Moa Island. During the takeover of the archipelago and the subsequent operation that followed, Operation Nest Wrecker, Black Shark PMCs locked down Moa Island, though this didn't stop both resistance fighters and stranded Task Force 300 soldiers from attempting to infiltrate the island anyway.

Evidence of human settlements on the archipelago was dated back to about 10,000 BC, around the time the last Ice Age had ended. Interestingly, also found on the islands were a vast array of strange new species of animals, and, most shockingly, new species of dinosaurs that had somehow survived the mass extinction 65 MYA.

### World War II

During World War II, the Soviet Union used the Aurora Archipelago as a staging ground for Operation East Wind.

### Cold War

In 1953, the island was leased to the US to sway Soviet influence in the area. During the final years of the Soviet Union, many dissidents who wanted nothing to do with the USSR fled to the island and permanently settled there. However, subsequent explorations of the island during the war led to the deaths of approximately 500 Russian soldiers and civilians at the hands of hazardous terrain, and new and terrifying species of animals.

### The new home of Apex Corporation

In 2016, Apex Corporation, a defense contractor, bought the archipelago and used it as its main headquarters. In 2020, drone production began, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

### Operation Citadel

The Russian settlers coexisted peacefully with Apex Corporation until around 2022, when one of Apex's drone-making facilities fell victim to a bombing. Following this, Apex hired Black Shark Security to protect remaining assets on the archipelago. Unfortunately, this spelled disaster for Apex, as BSS and a cadre of rogue US military soldiers known as Verus Rex took over the island and cut it off from the outside world. The US responded by authorizing Operation Nest Wrecker.

## Known Islands

* Aurora Island
* Windy Channels
* Golem Island
* Blackwood Island
* Moa Island
* East Egg Island

## Fauna

### Mammals

* White-Tailed Deer
* Ibex
* Bighorn Sheep
* Feral hogs
* Wild Boar
* Banteng
* Gaur

### Birds

* Southern cassowary
* Green pygmy-goose
* Canadian Goose (invasive)
* Devil Bird

### Reptiles

* Ammosaurus
* Hesperosaurus
* Cyrtorhothon
* Daspletovenator
* Dracocheloraptor
* Eorex
* Neomoloch
* Superlestes