Colombia had been left in blood-soaked ruins following the end of the South American Inferno with their major cities in ruins and everyone vaguely skilled rotting in the wilds of South America. The greatly reduced state had a few hundred thousand people within their borders all disillusioned with their nation. Though Colombia was not given the constitution from hell like the Republic of the Andes allowing the government to establish themselves in the broken ruins of the nation. Though only through use of the Brazilian occupying forces. However, the government was still on the verge of collapse with two main threats emerging the communist National Liberation Army and the reactionary Colombian People's Front. The two groups alongside the scattered remains of the Colombian Army from the war all fought a low intensity war between themselves and the government. The government of Colombia was effectively forced to abandon the majority of their country to the paramilitaries due to non-existence of the Colombian army as an actual military force that could be used to secure control. The Brazilian Army stationed troops in the ruins of Bogotá and other major cities within the nation which became the last holdouts of the legitimate government.
While the Colombian government hid in the ruins of their past glory the paramilitaries that wage war for their nation solidified their control over the jungles of Colombia. The National Liberation Army secured the majority of the last remnants of the coast that the Windsor Powers had left Colombia with following the end of the South American Inferno. To the south the Colombian People's Front had secured the land along the Brazilian border as the People's Front attempted to stop the Brazilian occupation of their nation. Of course, the Brazilians used modified Death Gilders to transport their forces into Colombia so reducing the few methods of crossing the border to rubble did nothing more but reduce them to rubble. The last scattered remnants of the Colombian Army from the South American Inferno was the smallest and weakest of the three paramilitaries, but its members were the most well trained allowing them to conduct actions with the most efficiency. They were relegated to the north were they stayed along the Venezuelan border striking against the occasional Colombian ventures into the north of their country. The actions of the paramilitaries towards the representatives of the government were notoriously brutal with it being quite common to find government representatives hanging from trees with the symbol of whichever paramilitary killed them carved on their chest. The Brazilian occupiers were equally brutal dragging captured paramilitary soldiers into the depths of the jungle and shooting them in the back of the head or in one case crushing their heads with sledgehammers. The Brazilians would remain in Colombia for ten years following the end of the South American Inferno but following the decision of the new government to scale down military funding forcing the Brazilians to withdraw from Colombia due to lack of funds as the last Brazilian soldier left Bogota the Colombia government knew that their downfall was coming.
The first Paramilitary to move was the National Liberation Army who secured the entire coast within a week and began their march to Bogotá. To the south the Colombian People's Front struck through the jungle on their drive to secure the south. All the while the military secured the Venezuelan border in a single uprising and launched an attack on the National Liberation Army. As the paramilitaries devolved into fighting between each other the Colombian government just fled with as many civilians as possible to Brazil where they were allowed to form a small community on the world of Brasília. Columbia fell into fighting for the next two years with the only notice being the Ecuadorian, Brazilian, and Venezuelan militaries moving to the border to stop the refugees flowing across the border from the blood crazed war in Colombia. The war was hard to explain since neither side had enough men to fight truly pitched battles instead the war was nothing more than terrorist actions with general frontlines being where certain flags flew over the small towns of Colombia. The war eventually ended with a National Liberation Army victory if you could call it that in late 1963 with the proclamation of the People's Republic of Colombia. Of course, there was still terrorist actions raging throughout the nation from the last members of opposition. The war if you could call it that ended in around 1978 when the last soldier of the Colombian People's Front died of a heart attack. The Colombia just continued along as the second worst place to live on the planet Earth with only the near medieval status of the Republic of the Andes being worse and Persia just scraping above them thanks to the Kingdom of the Arabs investing in them once in the 1980's I think.
-Extract from an explanation of Colombia following the end of the South American Inferno
The first use of the colours that struck fear into the hearts of the Lucian Alliance and the Goa'uld Empire was in 1956 when the HIMIS King George I decided to raid a Goa'uld convoy that was going through a particular part of space where the Union Jack was not exactly welcomed. So, the captain decided to hoist the Jolly Roger to hunt down the convoy. The raid was a decisive success managing to capture a slaving ship and executing the majority of the crew with the last member left on a broken Al'kesh with a distress beacon. When he was rescued by the Goa'uld he gave a description of men that brought death bearing the skull and crossbones above their ship. The Jolly Roger had returned to haunt the galaxy.
-Extract from Peter Mollwing's book the sun rises: The Second Golden Age of Piracy.
The initial stage of Operation Gauntlet was launched on the 10th of February 1956 with the majority of the allied warships breaking though the thin defensive lines around the centre of the Goa'uld Empire and tore straight for Dakara. The final catastrophe had come to Anubis and he decided to implement the nuclear option. He ordered all of his forces to withdraw from the front and to gather around Dakara as he began to plan.
-Extract from Christopher Bowes's book The Bloody Wolves of the Stars: A history of Imperial Stargate Command.
