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TOM CLANCY'S CALL OF DUTY
A Modern Warfare/Tom Clancy/FPS/Action Genre Crossover
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CANONICAL TIMELINE
"This is for the record." – Captain John Price, "Endgame"
"I went ahead and compiled a detailed timeline of events and dossiers on all known players for you guys. If you appreciate my hard work you can buy me dinner later."
"Funny. Alright Sharon, lets see it."
"I've have to warn you... It's not pretty."
"The world stopped being pretty for us a long time ago."
- RAINBOW Intelligence Officer Sharon Judd briefing ALFA Team Leader Logan Keller, "Prologue"
Timeline
1970
June 19 - A young JOHN CLARK is recruited by the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY to be part of their SPECIAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION after fighting in the VIETNAM WAR. Hand picked by an exclusive committee of high ranking military and intelligence personnel John Clark meets fellow S.A.D. Operatives ALEX MASON and FRANK WOODS along with Special Agent JASON HUDSON and GRIGORI WEAVER. His involvement with the S.A.D. during his probationary period remains CLASSIFIED to this day.
1975
April 30 - The FALL OF SAIGON occurs. The Capital of the Republic of South Vietnam is invaded by the PEOPLE'S ARMY OF VIETNAM (NVA) and the NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT OF SOUTH VIETNAM (VIETCONG). Captain DANIEL BOONE of the MACV-SOG, a friend and mentor of Frank Woods and Alex Mason as well is killed in a firefight with NVA when the MACV-SOG and the S.A.D. were tasked with securing and evacuating important American and South Vietnamese personnel and assets from Saigon. Boone's corpse along with many American and South Vietnamese soldiers were mutilated and hung on the gates of the INDEPENDENCE PALACE by the Vietcong for the West to see. John Clark at great risk to his own safety rescue the life of a Private First Class L. SHEPHERD the sole surviving member of his squad after his team was blown apart by NVA artillery and ambushed and butchered by the Vietcong during their siege.
April 30 - The Vietnam War ends with the defeat of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
1978
April 27 - The SAUR REVOLUTION occurs. The PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF AFGHANISTAN (PDPA) overthrows the ruling government of the REPUBLIC OF AFGHANISTAN and executes the life and family of President MOHAMMED DAOUD KHAN. The members of the NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY PARTY are purged and a Communist government loyal to the UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS is installed.
Spring, Summer, Fall - Religious persecutions erupts throughout the Afghanistan with numerous Muslim Holy Sites destroyed by the PDPA enforcing state atheism. Islam is banned in Afghan society and almost immediately Sunni-Extremists take up arms against the new government. Domestic terrorism erupts with government institutions and airports being bombed and attacked. Civilians were helpless caught in the crossfire between government and rebel forces.
1979
December 27 - The SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR begins. The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to protect and assist the PDPA in it's guerilla war against AFHGAN MUJAHIDEEN fighters.
1980
April 30 - The IRANIAN EMBASSY SIEGE begins. IRANIAN ARAB REVOLUTIONARIES from the newly formed ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN storm the Iranian embassy on the PRINCE'S GATE in SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON. The group takes 29 people as hostages executing 3 of them on live television. The British SPECIAL AIR SERVICE is sent in. A young Lance Corporal JOHN PRICE distinguishes himself as being the first operator to storm the embassy when he led "Blue Team" to securing entrance and exit ways. His courageous actions resulted in saving numerous hostages in what would otherwise had been a bloody siege.
July 3 - The CIA launches OPERATION CYCLONE to finance and arm the mujahideen resistance against the Soviet Army. The S.A.D. lead by Hudson and Weaver personally delivers weapons to the MAKTAB AL-KIHAMAT (MAK) as well as training several of it's leading Afghan-Arab members in covert warfare and state terrorism tactics and befriending them.
1981
January 20 - RONALD REAGAN assumes office as the 40th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (POTUS).
1982
April 2 - The FALKLAND WARS begin. John Price meets Lieutenant JACK MACMILLAN during the RAID ON PEBBLE ISLAND.
June 9 - The S.A.D. operating in Afghanistan is ambushed and narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by a KGB Kill Team and PDPA operatives disguised as local Afghan civilians. A heavy firefight ensures and Weaver is wounded but manages to capture a KGB agent. The agent commits suicide by cyanide capsule rather then face interrogation and torture. The incident remains CLASSIFIED till this day and is known to be a part of the CIA-KGB SHADOW WAR.
1985
March 15 - MIKHAIL GORBACHEV is elected as the GENERAL SECRETARY of the COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION effectively making him the undisputed Supreme Leader of the USSR. One of his first actions in office were enacting policies of "glasnost" or "openness" which for the first time in the USSR marked the laxing of state sponsored surveillance and control over the everyday life of it's citizens. Freedom of Speech and Press as well as government transparency where promoted for the first time and signaled the triumphant high water mark of Western Democracy and Liberty and it's influence over Soviet Society.
Fall - MAK fighters successfully ambush an infantry mechanized column of Soviet and PDPA forces on the way to ZHAWAR within KHOST province in Afghanistan. Captured Soviet and PDPA personnel were brutally tortured and dismembered by MAK under the orders of their leader ABDULLAH YUSUF AZZAM. For the sake of his soul and Allah's mercy over his soul he vowed only to spare the Soviet Sunni Muslims who were captured following in like the famous legendary Sultan Salah al'Din. Forcing them under Allah's Oath and that of the Prophet he made them swear never again to take up arms against any Sunni Muslims as long as they lived less the Prophet's sword fell on them and their family. A small number of the Muslim prisoners swore this oath, one of them a conscripted Tatar-Khazar Russian from the VOLGA-URAL region of the USSR named IMRAM ZAKHAEV. Azzam ordered all the PDPA prisoners killed and took care of the Soviet Sunni's as POWs for the rest of the war engaging in daily Quranic studies with them has their Sheikh (in truth radical extremist brainwashing).
December 25 - The WAR ON CHRISTMAS DAY as it is known in the USSR occurs in Moscow Stadium, in the United States on PPV it is known as EAST VS WEST: BALBOA v DRAGO. A history making unsanctioned boxing exhibition match between the reigning US WBA Heavyweight Champion Rocky "THE ITALIAN STALLION" Balboa vs the reigning undefeated Soviet World Amateur Champion and Olympic Gold medalist Ivan "THE SIBERIAN BULL" Drago goes the full 15 rounds before the older the more experienced Balboa manages to floor the younger heavily favored Drago with a vicious flurry of blows resulting a TKO victory. The match marked the first time an American had physically fought let alone defeated a Soviet on Soviet soil. Balboa's victory speech which he delivered through shuttering battled lips whom the press titled: "If I Can Change..." sent the once hostile Soviet crowd into a frenzy of applause and cheers (as for some of them it was the first time they heard from an American) and is hailed in TIME Magazine has the Speech of the Decade in 1989. Balboa would pass away months later from complications from brain surgery from injuries sustained in this fight. Drago would go on to win the WBA World Heavyweight Title a couple of years later.
1989
January 30 - A young idealistic VLADIMIR MAKAROV graduates from the USSR's most prestigious institutions, the M. V. FRUNZE MILITARY ACADEMY, with the rank of Captain unheard at the time at the age of 19. He was awarded the Order of People's First Cadet personally by the legendary SERGEY AKHROMEYEV, Hero and Marshall of the Soviet Union, and veteran of the Second World War. He is assigned to the 98TH GUARDS AIRBORNE DIVISION.
February 15 - Following the orders of Gorbachev under the leadership of Colonel-General BORIS GROMOV the last remaining Soviet forces of the 40th ARMY withdraw from KABUL crossing the HAIRATAN BRIDGE into the UZBEK SSR marking the end of the Soviet-Afghan War in a defeat for the USSR. The PDPA is left alone to fight the better equipped and trained Mujahideen fighters. All Soviet POWs were exchanged and freed. The AFGHAN CIVIL WAR begins.
April 7 - 98th Guards Division along with an Armor Support Group were deployed to TBILISI, GEORGIA after more then 100,000 pro-independence protesters riot outside of Georgia's Communist Party Headquarters. Two days later the 98th were told to fire on the protesters, killing over 200 and successfully ending the riots. Captain Makarov ordered his men not to participate an act which brought him into the cross hairs of his superior officers.
November 9 - The BERLIN WALL dividing Germany falls. Makarov was present as protesters lit the Soviet flag aflame on the streets of EAST GERMANY. He was given the order to fire on the protesters but ordered his men to hold their position. He was stripped of his rank and demoted to Junior Lieutenant. He was court-martial although later acquitted by Marshall Akhromeyev, who personally assigned him a temporary position has his office secretary.
1990
October 3 - East and West Germany reunify to form the FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY
1991
August 19 - The AUGUST COUP occurs in MOSCOW, RUSSIA as forces led under future Russian President BORIS YELTSIN manage to stop an attempted overthrow of the Soviet government under the leadership of General Secretary MIKHAIL GORBACHEV by the GANG OF EIGHT, a hard-line group of the highest-ranking Soviet government officials in power and their supporters who opposed Gorbachev's political reforms. Vladimir Makarov watches as Marshall Akhromeyev commits suicide via gunshot to the head in his office when Russian authorities sought to arrest him for treason. His dying words were him lamenting that the country he fought for in Stalingrad was dead.
December 26 - The USSR dissolves. The UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and NATO emerge from the COLD WAR victorious. The RUSSIAN FEDERATION is formed along with various other former Soviet-Satellite States declaring independence as new nations. The US remains the sole superpower of the world. Makarov is reassigned to the 98th Guards with the rank of Captain reinstated.
December 30 - John Clark is reassigned from CIA Eastern Europe Station after almost a decade to working primary in Japan and the Middle East.
1994
April 7 - July 15 - The RWANDAN GENOCIDE occurs. John Clark receives advance intelligence but was held back from any intervention by American politicians and bureaucrats.
1995
Spring - The BOSNIAN WAR draws close to it's end. Imran Zakhaev meets Vladimir Makarov on the battlefields of former GREATER YUGOSLAVIA during the third year of SIEGE OF SARAJEVO when both volunteered to fight for the Bosniaks and the Croat-Serbs respectively. Zakhaev spares Makarov after the latter's platoon was caught in an ambush by Zakhaev's Mujahideen Fighters upon the discovery that they were both Russians. Makarov was the lone survivor and was taken prisoner. He was treated humanely. The two witnessed the SREBRENICA MASSACRE and various other atrocities together safety from a distance and agreed that ultimately the West was to blame for the suffering of the Slavic people. After the war Makarov decides to join Zakhaev's mutual goal of driving the West out of Eastern Europe.
April 19 - The OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING occurs. The perpetrators Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are executed and sentence to life imprisonment respectively. Zakhaev and Makarov are galvanized by such a bold attack.
1996
January 21 - A police investigation of an instance of sabotage (a steel bar was welded to the tracks) which caused the deaths of four high-speed passengers on the railroad tracks on the British side of the Channel Tunnel reveals the culprits' identities as FREE EUROPE a British NEO-NAZI terrorist group believed to be a spin-off of the earlier group COMBAT 18. Their agenda called for the deportation of all immigrants of non-European ancestry and a national policy of strict economic and cultural isolationism. Since then, the name has come in conjunction with several other terrorist incidents, including the firebombing of a block of flats occupied by West African immigrants that killed a four-year old girl. The United Kingdom's SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE or MI6 later discovered the source of Free Europe's funding, a man named Imran Zakhaev.
January 28 - John Clark is recalled to CIA London Station to oversee joint MI6-CIA operation to find Free Europe.
February 14 - The British Government orders it's first assassination since World War II on Imran Zakhaev known to them as an Islamic Extremist, black market arms dealer and emerging leader of a radical pro-Soviet revolutionary movement. Intelligence by MI6 reveal that Zakhaev has plans to build a "dirty bomb" from the radioactive remains of uranium fuel rods in Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Under the new British Prime Minister the mission was handled to the United Kingdom's elite Special Air Service rather than MI6, much to the resentment of the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service.
October 22 - Captain MacMillan and Lieutenant Price infiltrate PRIPYAT, UKRAINE in an attempt to assassinate Imran Zakhaev. Zakhaev escapes with Vladimir Makarov. MacMillan is wounded, but he and Price successfully escape. The mission was a failure but Zakhaev's plan to acquire uranium material was thawed.
November 2 - Imran Zakhaev disappears off grid. NATO intelligence believes him to be hiding in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia.
1997
June 30 - July 1 - The United Kingdom formally hands over the territory of HONG KONG the last of it's crown jewel colonies over to the PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. CIA intercepts a transmission between MI6 and Chinese Intelligence about the capture and torture of an unnamed British operative codenamed "VIALS" weeks before. The details of the transmission included the transfer of six MI6 agents previously held in Chinese custody and a guarantee peaceful transfer of British assets and Hong Kong sovereignty from the UK to the PRC. In return MI6 was to disavow and destroy the existence of "VIALS", his/her real identity and history leaving his/her fate to the PRC. CIA DIRECTOR GEORGE TENET orders the records of said discovery quietly destroyed.
1998
Spring - Zakhaev and Makarov resurface to fight in the KOSOVO WAR on the side of Yugoslavia against NATO and Kosovan forces. Makarov and his men become proficient in asymmetric warfare, training and application of tactics and strategies to fight against Western Forces with superior numbers and technology.
September 18 - 22 The daughter of Chinese Consul SOLON HAN is kidnapped and held for ransom when her limousine was cornered in at a stoplight off the ramp of a Los Angeles freeway by masked gunmen. Her driver and security guards are shot and killed. A joint taskforce composing of FBI agents and LAPD officers and detectives along with a lone Inspector of the HONG KONG POLICE succeed in rescuing her from a human trafficking operation by the international Chinese criminal organization known as JUNTAO, who in the course of the investigation was responsible for the death of numerous FBI and LAPD personnel after the latter rigged a warehouse to explode, along with millions of dollars worth of damage to precious Chinese artifacts. The leader of JUNTAO (exposed to be disgraced British Diplomat and former Hong Kong Police Commander THOMAS GRIFFEN) is killed in an ensuring firefight and fall from the scaffolding of the LOS ANGELES CONVENTION CENTER.
1999
June 1 - Inception of RAINFOREST 2000 PROJECT, U.S. initiative to encourage investment in the AMAZON BASIN.
August 26 - The SECOND CHECHEN WAR begins. Zakhaev and Makarov begin to train future soldiers from both sides of the conflict secretively of what would become the ULTRANATIONALIST MILITANT WING in the battlefields of CHECHNYA. Chechen and Russian soldiers were open targets. Various atrocities were committed and a UNITED NATIONS inquiry was made on Makarov' and the Russian soldiers under his command. To prevent a imminent court-martial and criminal sentence as well as to protect his men, Vladimir Makarov voluntary accepts a dishonorable discharge from the military. Several of his soldiers follow him suite.
December 25 - The elite international NATO counter-terrorism black-ops unit RAINBOW is formed with John Clark as its Director and ALISTAIR STANLEY as Deputy Director.
2000
January 1st - The NEW MILLENNIUM begins
Unknown Date - Zakhaev sort to acquire the "CHIMERA VIRUS" from a rogue British agent SEAN AMBROSE but was thawed when Ambrose was killed.
2001
January 4 - Vladimir Makarov and his men bomb a Moscow city bus leaving 29 people dead and 19 injured, 9 fatalities were children.
February 7 - On the morning of the eighth anniversary of the MAASTRICHT TREATY, 17 Free Europe members seize the BELGIAN EMBASSY in London and take Belgian Ambassador GILES DOUCET and Doucet's aide hostage. Doucet himself goes into hiding in his office. Both the SAS and Belgium's ESI (Escadron spécial d'intervention) refuse to intervene fearing political fallout. Rainbow is deployed in their stead for their first official mission. OPERATION STEEL WIND is declared a success. The Embassy is secured and the Doucet and his staff were unharmed. All Free Europe terrorists were neutralized.
February 8 - United News International (UNI) reports on the embassy rescue mission receiving the details from Officer NIGEL FELLOWS and crediting British government forces for the siege. The existence of Rainbow remains classified.
April 22 - Makarov and his men massacre a GUM mall in Moscow leaving 87 dead, 20 of which were children. Motives unknown.
August 27 - Makarov along with Free Europe bombs PICCADILLY CIRCUS using a modified London Underground train, leaving 407 dead. The LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE implodes in the worst crash in British history. MI6 and Rainbow hunt and eliminate Free Europe terror-cell based in PARIS, FRANCE. Rainbow Lead-Negotiator Lieutenant PHIL MONROE is killed by Free Europe during a hostage crisis partially due to the negligence of Rainbow Operative GABRIEL NOWAK. Nowak evades punishment when Rainbow Team Leader THOMAS BISHOP vouches for him. Nowak is blacklisted and shunned by fellow Rainbow teammates.
September 11 - The SEPTEMBER 11TH ATTACKS occurs in NEW YORK CITY, VIRGINIA, and PENNSYLVANIA. The WORLD TRADE CENTER is destroyed along with multiple US targets including the US CAPITOL BUILDING and the PENTAGON by AL-QAEDA leaving upwards of 3000 causalities in what was the worst attack on domestic North American soil since the PEARL HARBOR BOMBINGS of World War II. The entire population of United States of America is left traumatized. No known links with Zakhaev or Makarov found. The US WAR ON TERROR begins. The US Government along with NATO begin to focus its resources towards destroying Al-Qaeda. Zakhaev seizes this has his opportunity to embolden his plans seeing as the West is distracted with Al-Qaeda and the Middle East.
October 7 - US invades Afghanistan launching OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM.
2002
May 5 - Makarov orders the hijacking of a Greek oil tanker in the MEDITERRANEAN SEA and kills 2 members of the Greek Navy before a $3 million ransom is paid. RAINBOW offers to intervene on the Greek government's behalf. They are rejected and the ransom was paid instead and the incident was sealed and CLASSIFIED, with the Greek government fearing public embarrassment if they let foreign forces intervene. The victory attracts much notoriety and infamy to Makarov from the criminal underworld.
Unknown Date - Makarov recruits a disillusioned and bitter Nowak into his organization as a mole within Rainbow and the NSA. The two link up with IRENA MORALES and the CABRERO BROTHERS, both of which are heavily involved in major drug cartel operations in Mexico as will are narco-terrorist activities against both the Mexican Government and the DEA, and the American black market arms dealer OWEN DAVIAN.
November 23 - Makarov executes three Russian infantry soldiers. The trio threaten to go public with his identity and terrorist activities. One of them was a mole for the FSB (Russia's FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE). Further information about Makarov's activities after this incident is unknown.
2003
March 14 - US-IRAQ WAR begins.
Spring - Major-General LANCE H. SHEPHERD of the famed US 75th RANGER REGIMENT and Lieutenant-Colonel JOHN KONRAD of the 33rd INFANTRY BATTALION distinguish themselves during OPERATION ANACONDA, the BATTLE OF CARBALA, the BATTLE OF NASAF and the FALL OF BAGHDAD. A deep bond is developed as both of them served under and were influenced by philosophy of the the late celebrated Brigadier General FRANCIS X. HUMMEL.
Spring & Summer - Zakhaev, Makarov and their organizations attack North Caucasus-based, pro-Western nationalist groups in Chechnya and Dagestan committing assassinations of political leaders, arson and bombings of opposition parties. Chechen newspaper refer to the incident as the "SUMMER OF FEAR"
December 17 - Makarov personally murders Moscow-based journalist ILYA LOVITCH with a gunshot wound to the head when the latter moved to expose his activities to the world. Later in a grotesque mockery of journalism Makarov sends pictures of the corpse to the newspapers with the headline "Exclusive Shots".
Unknown Date - Makarov's organization grows increasing ties with major Mexican drug cartels, supplying the cartels with weapons and gaining narcotics in return to fuud his terrorist activities.
2004
Spring - Makarov personally bombs several high government buildings in KAZAKHSTAN, killing 245 people.
Spring - Makarov orders the hijacking of two Kriegler Airliner planes, leaving 378 people dead, including 8 of his own henchmen when they refuse an order to crash the plane onto civilian targets. The attack draws the attention of Rainbow whom for reason unbeknownst to them are unable to identify Makarov and his organization.
Summer - Makarov's organization robs an HBS bank in ISTANBUL, TURKEY.
Summer - Makarov orders the kidnapping of 15 Russian college students and murders 5 of them when the ransom was late. Several females students were gang raped as a warning to Russian authorities not to "fuck with them".
Fall - Makarov's organization bombs two African embassies in conjunction with BOKO HARAM leaving 28 dead and 48 injured.
2005
Unknown Date - Makarov's organization along with several Russian Crime Syndicates raid an unknown number of bullion trucks in Moscow, steals upwards of 3 million rubles, killing 3 security guards.
Unknown Date - Makarov's organization hijacks an unknown number of cruise ships in the BALTIC SEA, tortures 3 US passengers until the $5 million ransom is paid.
2006
March 12 - Makarov's organization robs the RUSSIAN STATE POSTAL and BANKING SERVICE DEPOT of 32 million rubles.
April 31 - Makarov's organization murders famous British designer ROB MILLINGTON.
May 5 - Owen Davian is killed by American agents working for OGA (Other Government Agency). Further details are CLASSIFIED.
August 22 - Makarov personally murders 3 US airmen in TURKMENISTAN with an entrenchment-tool. Remains were cremated.
Fall - Makarov under the orders of Zakhaev assists in coordinating attacks made by the SUDANESE MILITARY and JANJAWEED MILITIA against rebels. This action is then implicated in human rights abuses and atrocities committed both by Makarov's men and the African juntas who terrorized the population most notably the systematic rape and human trafficking of displaced women and children along with the policy of hacking off limbs to anyone who opposed them.
December 11 - President FELIPE CALDERON of the UNITED MEXICAN STATES with his government declares war against the major drug cartels dominating the international drug trade stemming from Mexico. Federal troops openly engage Mexican drug dealers on the street of Mexico. The major Mexican drug organizations are the SINALOA (led by the BARRERA BROTHERS), GULF, JUAREZ, and LOS ZETAS Cartels.
2007
Unknown Date - Makarov captures and dismembers the MOSSAD attaché hiding in East Ukraine because they were responsible for investigating Makarov's links to Islamic extremists in Iran, LEBANON, YEMEN, ABUDDIN, the WEST BANK and GAZA STRIP.
July 16 - Makarov under the orders of Zakhaev assassinates PAKISTANI politician HASNI AL'BURA as a favor for Al-Qaeda leaders OSAMA BIN LADEN and NUSIR AL-MUHAMMAD HASSAN, better known as "THE CLERIC".
2009
Unknown Date - Makarov orders the bombing of a Swedish furniture store in a shopping mall located in ST. PETERSBURG, killing 100 people.
Unknown Date - Makarov's organization ambushes an FSB vehicle and kills 5 agents. His intended target, FSB Station-Chief ILYA NICKOVITCH was not in the vehicle.
Unknown Date - Makarov's men abduct and murder SibGaz owner's wife and daughter. FSB agents and local law enforcement kill the perpetrators before they were able to be arrested.
October 8 - Makarov's organization bombs a US oil company in BAKU, AZERBAIJAN killing 3 people. John Clark personally begins to investigate Makarov's organization (their identity still unknown to Rainbow)
Unknown Date - Makarov's organization attempts to bomb an English-speaking school in Moscow but fails due to a joint FSB-MI6 Taskforce.
July 7th - Makarov's organization rigs explosives to detonate in Moscow's VTB ARENA. Makarov's attack is foiled when authorities burst a pipe to prevent the soccer match from beginning under the orders of Ilya Nickovitch. Makarov's men slip away under the cover of chaos.
2010
June 22 - EDWARD GORDON GREENE of the TORIES PARTY is elected as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under Her Majesty's Government.
July 2 - 2010 LAS VEGAS TERROR CRISIS begin. IRENA MORALES and her army of mercenaries along with the CABERERO BROTHERS launch a series of attack on famous casinos (CALYPSO, RED LOTUS, DANTE'S) and the VERTIGO SPIRE, a world famous luxury hotel throughout Las Vegas, Nevada. OPERATION NO LIMIT beings with Rainbow dispatched to neutralize threat led by Thomas Bishop along with Rainbow Operatives LOGAN KELLER and JAMES KNIGHT. Morales planted explosives in various Las Vegas landmarks, most notably at the NEVADA DAM, the LAS VEGAS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTER and the LAS VEGAS HILTON. The bombs were all successfully disarmed and civilian causalities were kept at a minimal. The largest loss of life in Rainbow history occurs with the deaths of operatives KAN AKAHASHI, SHAWN RIVERS and the entity of VEGAS ECHO TEAM due to the betrayal of rogue NSA agent Gabriel Nowak, who was working together with Morales and her terror group. The operation was a success as Morales, Nowak, the Cabrero Brothers and their terror cells were eliminated. Bishop is promoted to Deputy Director of Rainbow by DOMINGO "DING" CHAVEZ.
Unknown Date - Makarov receives over $2,100,000 worth of weapons, drugs and people thanks to Zakhaev's terrorist network a significant contribution coming from Pakistani black arms dealer AAMIR BARKAWI. Later intelligence by France's DGSE revealed connection between Morales and Makarov to Zakhaev' Organization. The DGSE withhold the information from the CIA for reasons unknown.
December 30 - The Russian ULTRANATIONALIST PARTY is formed and led by Imran Zakhaev. The Party is immediately branded a domestic terrorist organization by the FSB and the government of the Russian Federation.
2011
January 13 - The MEXICAN DRUG WAR intensifies as massive corruption sweeps the Mexican military and government. Federal troops suffer more causalities then originally estimated. Drug kingpins united and begin to assassinate politicians. The Drug Cartels effectively become narco-terrorists as Mexico's economy nosedives into recession. President Calderon resigns after being injured in an assassination attempt. ENRIQUE PENA NIETO is swore in as the new President.
April 9 - YASIR AL FULANI is elected president of the REPUBLIC OF URZIKSTAN under the promise of modernizing the rural areas of the country and using oil profits to help create infrastructure. He also was a leading figure in the ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE MOVEMENT. President Fulani's reign was extremely unpopular among local Sunni Muslims and pan Arab socialists/nationalists and was viewed as a capitalist puppet for the US and her western allies. Within months a regional Arab warlord by the name of KHALED AL-ASAD takes up arms and leads a revolution against the president with the assistance of PRESIDENT AL-FAYEED of the ABUDDIN REPUBLIC and ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF KAMISTAN. The URZIKSTAN CIVIL WAR begins with the military forces of the Republic of Urzikstan against the newly formed PAN-ARAB REPUBLICAN GUARD (referred to by the NATO code-name OPFOR) led by the warlord Al-Asad himself.
May 2 - OPERATION NEPTURE SPEAR is a success resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden by DEVGRU, effectively crippling Al-Qaeda and avenging the deaths suffered during September 11th. Widespread celebration erupts throughout the United States. US President DAVID BOWERS is praised for his leadership in hunting and killing bin Laden after an almost a decade manhunt. He calls it "the crowning moment of my political career" as he was well into his last term as President. Sole leadership of Al-Qaeda falls to "the Cleric".
October 1 - The SECOND RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR begins between Russian government LOYALISTS (the Russian Federation supported by Ukraine, POLAND, FINLAND and GEORGIA) and Ultranationalist rebels (fighting under the banner of NEW RUSSIA supported by CZERVENIA and CHERNARUS). The Civil War is largely characterized by low-intensity fighting between the urban areas of Russia vs the more rural areas of Eastern Russia. Several elements of the Russian military have join the Ultranationalists while a small segment of it decides to remain neutral to the conflict.
September 17 - OCCUPY WALL STREET occurs as New Yorkers protest economic inequality and rising student debt. Thousand flock to sit in ZUCCOTTI and CENTRAL PARK in New York City. Several fights breakout between protesters and officers of the NEW YORK CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT. Subsequent riot breaks out before crowd control officers unleash volleys upon volleys of tear gas at the protesters. Nine people including one officer is killed.
November 4 - December 1 - 2011 NEW YORK CITY TERROR ATTACKS occurs in response to the Occupy Wall Street protest movement. RAINBOW is dispatched to deal with the "TRUE PATRIOTS" a populist militia group of former US military personnel when they occupy and massacre various stock brokers, hedge fund managers and bankers working in the NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE and various Federal Banks in New York City, purposely crashing the domestic markets and American assets and bonds. Blending in with New Yorkers wearing civilian clothing the True Patriots were able to launch various attacks from seemingly out of thin air before disappearing in the chaos. Working together with the agents from FBI and the ATF (BUREAU OF ALCOHOL, TOBACCO, FIREARMS AND EXPLOSIVES) along with the NYPD's EMERGENCY SERVICE UNIT in the course of four weeks had manage to rescue a majority of hostages and civilians not without heavy law enforcement fatalities. RAINBOW Team Leader JAMES WOLFE along with Echo Team Leader SAM BRADDOCK succeed in neutralizing the ring leaders of the True Patriots after a vicious sniper battle on top of the BROOKLYN BRIDGE as well as subsequent arrest of other True Patriot affiliates. It was the worst terrorist attack to hit New York since 9/11. The paramilitary tactics displayed by the True Patriots in particular securing and defending a fortified position for almost a month against a prolong siege reflected the evolution of terrorist training. It became apparent to the Directors of RAINBOW that a new team specializing in siegecraft would be necessary. The case is currently still under investigation.
2012 - (COD4 Modern Warfare Canon)
October 23 - MI6 HEADQUARTERS located in the VAUXHALL DISTRICT of London is attacked by cyber-terrorists after the worst espionage leak in post-Cold War history happens when a hard drive containing the names and identity of all undercover NATO agents embedded in the Middle East and East Europe and Asia was compromised. MI6 determines that a rogue agent within the organization was responsible. CIA Intelligence however believe Imran Zakhaev to be responsible as vengeance over his failed assassination in Pripyat, Ukraine a decade earlier.
November 4 - In a landmark election, (D-ILLINOIS) SENATOR PATRICIA CALDWELL becomes the first female PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (POTUS)
November 5 - A recent transfer from the British Army's 3rd BATTALION PARACHUTE REGIMENT, new recruit SERGEANT JOHN MACTAVISH completes his SAS SPECIAL FORCES BRIEFING COURSE. Impressing Captain John Price with a new squadron record (14.7 SECONDS) during his C.Q.B. TEST at CREDENHILL, UK, MacTavish ("SOAP" as his former battalion called him) joins Price's SAS BRAVO TEAM, consisting of Captain Price himself along side Lieutenant Stan "GAZ" Gareston, Sergeant Craig WALLCROFT, Lance Corporal Michael GRIFFEN.
November 6 - SAS BRAVO infiltrate an Estonian freighter in the BERING SEA carrying nuclear material from the Ultranationalists to Al-Asad. RUSSIAN MiGS attack the freighter and it is sunk just after Price, Gaz, Soap and the rest of the SAS BRAVO escape. SAS Bravo successfully extracted with vital information shared to NATO forces.
November 6 - In a bloody coup d'état, Khaled Al-Asad takes over Urzikstan backed by Imran Zakhaev. Khaled Al-Asad executes President Al-Fulani on AL JAZEERA. OpFor leads an blitz offensive in driving all US Military presence in the former Republic. OpFor inflicts moderate causalities on US Marines stationed in the outskirts of Urzikstan. Several service personnel men and women are hanged and mutilated by Urzikstani civilians and OpFor soldiers. Surviving Marines are extracted by helicopters before being overwhelmed. The U.S. MARINE CORPS vow revenge. Incumbent US PRESIDENT DAVID BOWERS orders a US military intervention in Urzikstan to bring Al-Asad to justice as well as to protect surrounding American domestic and foreign personnel, interests and assets.
November 7 - SAS BRAVO infiltrate into the CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS to rescue their informant Russian Ultranationalist turned loyalist soldier, "NIKOLAI" (real name unknown believed to be BORIS BIELINSKI), from Ultranationalist forces. Along the way, they provide Loyalist Sergeant ANATOLY KAMAROV sniper support for his attack on the village where Nikolai is being held. The SAS BRAVO successfully extracts Nikolai and exfil safely. Loyalist forces successfully defeat Ultranationalists and exfil safely as well.
November 7 - The helicopter carrying the SAS BRAVO and the informant "Nikolai" is shot down by a SAM missile. The team continues on foot to a secondary extraction point, fighting through a large Ultranationalist assault force. They are supported by two AC-130H Spectre gunships, callsigns being WARHAMMER and WILDFYRE, until they were rescued. Ultranationalist forces were all neutralized.
November 8 - US COALITION FORCES consisting of the United States Army and Marine Corps (under command of Lieutenant-General Lance Shepherd) invade Al-Asad's controlled Urzikstan. FORCE RECON BRAVO under the command of Lieutenant David VASQUEZ, Staff Sergeant Mark GRIGGS, and Sergeant Paul JACKSON are sent to extract Khaled Al-Asad from an Al Jazeera TV station where he is supposedly broadcasting an ultimatum to US Forces. Against heavy fire by OpFor the team discover that Khaled Al-Asad is not at the TV station. His location unknown.
November 8 - FORECON Bravo and US Marines forces break through to a disabled M1 Abrams tank codenamed "WAR PIG" stuck in a bog. After rescuing War Pig FORECON Bravo take on the OpFor with "War Pig" as fire support. US Coalition Forces hoped to drive Khaled Al-Asad's Pan-Arab Republican Guard back to the capital (OPERATION MARATHON) where they would be surrounded. During the assault on the capital city of SAKHRA, NUCLEAR EMERGENCY SUPPORT TEAM or NEST are called when a "dirty bomb" is discovered. An urgent evacuation order is given by General Shepherd. The improvised nuclear device detonates before the retreat is complete. The detonation kills 30,000 US military personnel including FORECON Bravo in what is the most single loss of life suffered by US Forces post-Vietnam era, along with a massive amount of Urzikstani civilians. SSgt. Mark Griggs is the lone survivor of FORECON Bravo.
November 9 - SAS BRAVO infiltrate into Azerbaijan neighboring Urzikstan to locate Khaled Al-Asad. They join up with a Loyalist unit which provides helicopter support. The SAS BRAVO succeeds in taking the village and the safehouse where Khaled Al-Asad is hiding. Price interrogates Khaled Al-Asad to find out the origin of the nuclear device. Khaled Al-Asad's phone rings, and Price answers it revealing Imran Zakhaev to be behind the whole plot. Price executes Khaled Al-Asad as SAS BRAVO watches. Eight hours after Khaled Al-Asad's death, Ultranationalist forces attack the village where the SAS BRAVO are held up. After holding off and breaking through the brutal assault SAS BRAVO is rescued by Force Recon Marines lead by SSgt. Griggs.
November 10 - The combined SAS/FORECON team infiltrates into Southern Russia, to find VIKTOR ZAKHAEV, Imran Zakhaev's son and to get intelligence on Imran Zakhaev's motives and whereabouts. With the aid of the Kamarov and his unit the SAS/FORCON team disguises themselves as Ultranationalist troops. The ambush succeeds but Viktor Zakhaev flees on foot. MacTavish and Griggs chase after him until Victor Zakhaev reaches the roof of a derelict building. With no way to escape, Viktor Zakhaev commits suicide rather than surrender, jumping and falling to his death.
November 11 - 0619: Imran Zakhaev delivers an ultimatum to the US and British forces in Russia; withdraw or risk a nuclear attack on domestic soil. A joint SAS/FORECON team (BRAVO) consisting of Price, Gaz, MacTavish, and Griggs along with a combined SAS/FORECON/USMC forces lands in the ALTAY MOUNTAINS in Russia. Their mission is to recapture an ICBM facility held by Ultranationalist forces, in particular the elite 6th SPETSNAZ GRU. However Griggs is separated in the drop and captured. BRAVO Team successfully rescues Griggs and continue the mission. En route to the ICBM facility, two SS-27 "Sickle B" ICBMs, each containing four 100 kiloton nuclear warheads are launched at the EASTERN COAST of the US. The targets are MANHATTAN, NEW YORK and BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.
November 11 - 0716 - 0735: BRAVO Team fights through the heavily-guarded perimeter of the ICBM launch facility and enters through the ventilation shafts. The team successfully fights through the facility to gain control of the control room, where MacTavish successfully enters the self-destruct codes to destroy the ICBMs in flight. As enemy reinforcements are about to storm the facility, they escape by trucks from the vehicle depot.
November 11 - 0825: The team flees on the mountain roads as trucks filled with 6th Spetsnaz pursuing them. The chase is stopped when a Mi-24 Hind helicopter destroys a bridge, trapping the team. A fuel truck explodes incapacitating most of the team. SSgt. Mark Griggs is killed in the firefight. As the BRAVO Team lies vulnerable on the bridge Imran Zakhaev arrives to make sure they are all dead. He personally executes Gaz for the death of his son Viktor. However, Loyalist forces led by Sgt. Kamarov destroy the Mi-24 Hind distracting Imran Zakhaev long enough for Price to slide MacTavish his Springfield Armory M1911 which he uses to kill Imran Zakhaev and his two guards. Sgt. Kamarov arrives to rescue BRAVO Team and medevacs MacTavish to safety.
(END OF COD4-MODERN WARFARE 1)
2013 - (Modern Warfare 2 "Modified-Canon")
January 20 - Patricia Caldwell takes the US Oath of Office to officially become the President of the United States. In her inaugural speech she pledges to withdraw most US Military personnel from the Middle East, in her words "to bring our sons and daughters home". Her first act to sit down with the leaders of the Russian Federation to negotiate a potential alliance to fight against the Ultranationalists, vowing not send troops on Russian soil in a military intervention but through financial aid and arms deals.
February 11 - The Second Russian Civil War intensifies as Loyalist forces continue to lose more and more ground to rebel forces. Ultranationalism sweeps Russian after the public funeral of Imran Zakhaev, who effectively becomes a Martyr figure. The movement called "ZAKHAEVISM" a philosophy of Russian-Soviet Cultural Isolationism, Economic Socialism, Centralized Authoritarianism and Anti-Western Imperialism gains ground among the disenfranchised poor in Russia, particularly marginalized Russian-Muslims and "neo-soviet" groups in the rural regions of former soviet provinces. More and more elements of the Russian Military deflect from the Loyalist side and decide to remain neutral or to join the Ultranationalists.
February 20 - Pro-Ultranationalist Separatists in Ukraine's DONBAS region declare the territory independent and supported by Chernarusian and Czervenian forces along with Russian Ultranationalist declare war against the government of Ukraine in what is known as the DONBAS ARMED CONFLICT.
March 3 - Makarov becomes the new head of the Russian Ultranationalist Party's Military Wing and commits various acts of terrorism.
March 19 - A power struggle ensues within the Ultranationalist Party between acting leader BORIS VORSHEVSKY (a career politician considered a "moderate" Ultranationalist by NATO with sensibilities to the West and underlying loyalties to the Old Russian Federation) and majority leader VALERI VOLODIN (a "silovik", former career Spetsnaz and ex-KGB agent turned billionaire oligarch and politician who severed tries with the Loyalist Party) on the future course of Russia after the fall-out of the ZAKHAEV INCIDENT. Joint Loyalist/Ultranationalist Russia-US/NATO reached an agreement to keep the events of November 9 to 11 CLASSIFIED. This is partly due to the consequence and political fallout of the US Coalition deaths suffered at Sahkra by the means of nuclear weapons and the death of popular Russian folk hero/political head of state Imran Zakhaev by NATO Forces. No doubt if such an incident was made public both nations would antagonize their governments and push for open war, effectively reviving and igniting the Cold War. The incident had never existed. (*!*) (see below) The Ultranationalist remained divided on the tactics of Vladimir Makarov, Imran Zakhaev's former protege. Vorshevsky demands, in agreement with the Loyalists and the West to bring Makarov to justice for his various terrorist activities while Volodin seeks to pardon him (as the people see him not as a terrorist but as a freedom fighter in the way of Robin Hood due to Zakhaev's propaganda) and let him continue as acting commander of Ultranationalist special forces.
April 27 - Ukraine successfully lobbies for NATO membership and officially joins after two years of Observer Status.
Unknown Date - Vladimir Makarov begins expanding his organization working with the like of Brazilian black market arms dealer ALEJANDRO ROJAS, Brazilian-Portuguese drug-kingpin HERNAN REYES, Russian bomb maker VIKTOR KHRISTENKO known as "the VOLK" as well as the Egyptian bio-terrorist "DR. THRAX", (True Identity: Unknown), JARMEN KELL an OpFor guerrilla fighter (of mixed Iranian, Syrian, Urzikstani, and Arabian descent) hailed as the "Best Sniper in the World", Yemenite General turned petty Warlord MAHMUD ABDUL-MUHSI known as "THE TACTICAN" during the YEMENI CIVIL WAR, Vilenese dictator General RAMON ZAYAS GARZA, and elite computer hacker and cyber-terrorist SADAK (Full Name: Unknown) known as "THE BLACKHAT".
June 9 - Under the urging of General Shepherd, the NATO black ops TIER-1 Group "TASK FORCE 141" is created consisting of operators in America and her close allies, namely the countries of the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. The existence of the team if kept hidden from other NATO allies and is only known by top-tier politicians (namely President Caldwell, the US Secretary of Defense WILLIAM CULLEN, and the Director of the CIA along with their NATO counterparts). Created under the model of RAINBOW but fashioned for military black-ops missions it is effectively a kill-team rather then a hostage rescue counter-terrorism group (although it's members are trained for that). Amongst its special force members include U.S. Army Rangers, NAVY SEALs, DELTA FORCE (SFOD-D), British SAS, and SPECIAL BOAT SERVICE (SBS), Canada's JOINT TASK FORCE-2 (JTF-2), and Australia's SPECIAL AIR SERVICE REGIMENT (SASR), with logistical support and intelligence gathering from agencies such as the CIA, CSIS, MI6, and ASIS. Notable new members are Sergeant GARY SANDERSON known as "ROACH", and Lieutenant SIMON RILEY who goes by the call sign "GHOST", and Sergeant KYLE GARRICK affectionately also called "GAZ" by his teammates in remembrances to Lieutenant Stan Gareston who died months earlier. All three are members of the British SAS. Roach and Ghost are from the honored and decorated 22nd SAS Regiment, while Garrick previously served in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment for the Queen's Army and worked for the Metropolitan Police Service in London. The task force also includes veterans of the Zakhaev Incident in 2011 such as Lieutenant John "Soap" MacTavish and Captain John Price along with newly drafted members (who all want their identity classified due to the nature of their work) only known by their code-names MEAT, ROYCE, OZONE, SCARECROW, ARCHER, and TOAD. All of them would work together under Captain Price's 141 BRAVO-TEAM. American Lieutenant General Lance H. Shepherd is placed as the the acting NATO commander of "the One-Four-One", a group consisting of roughly 250 members with auxiliary and logistical support by NATO.
July 24 - New leadership arises within OpFor (which was all but destroyed following the aftermath of Sahkra's destruction and Khaled Al-Asad's death) and begins to reshape the group into a Islamic jihadist militant movement led by the philosophy of anti-West Jihadism, Qutbism and Pan Arab-Nationalism. Rebuilding its numbers from Urzikstani survivors (who were brainwashed into believing the US was responsible for the detonation of the bomb in Sahkra) and ex-Republican Guard as well as using new munitions delivered by the Makarov and his organization along with the Islamic Republic of Iran the group regains its fighting capacity and proceeds to invade Afghanistan. Fighting between OpFor and US Forces is fierce as what is now termed the "ARAB SUMMER" (wide spread riots and revolts against secular governments by Islamic fundamentalists and Anti-West nationalists) erupts through the Middle East, fanned no doubt by the fiery rhetoric of The Cleric and his jihadist teachings. OpFor begins to model itself as a global army bent towards religious revolution and liberation throughout all of the Islamic world. Largely an alliance of various Jihadist groups in the Middle East including Al-Qaeda, Hamas, ISIS, the Taliban and lastly the offshoot of the dead Al-Asad's defeated Republican Guard now radicalized terrorist group known as AL-QATALA.
September 2- Ghost leads a Task Force 141 team to rescue hostages in a school in Ukraine and neutralize the terrorists. He is successful.
October 8 - OPERATION KINGFISH is launched as a joint operation between Task Force 141 and US Delta Force. The strike team was inserted into the KARKONOSZE MOUNTAINS in Ukraine with the objective to kill or capture Vladimir Makarov. Task Force 141 members include Captain John Price (now acting Field Commander), MacTavish, Ghost, Roach, and Gaz (collectively known as BRAVO-TEAM) along with SFOD-D Operators "SANDMAN" and "FROST" providing overwatch while a AC-130H Spectre gunship (WARHAMMER now by the name SPECTRE 6-4) providing air support. During the beginning of the operation, the SFOD-D sniper team of Sandman and Frost neutralize compound surveillance and the joint strike team successfully infiltrate Makarov's compound. The order to "light 'em up" was given and Spectre 6-4 rained down death over enemy positions eliminating a substantial number of Ultranationalist troops. Upon securing the compound Makarov "KINGFISH" was not found. Vital intelligence was gathered before BRAVO-Team was attacked by C4 planted in the compound in apparent trap set by Makarov. A quick reaction force of Spetsnaz attack the team from the rear, forcing BRAVO-Team along with TF141/SFOD-D to retreat. Upon reaching the extraction point the team is bogged down by heavy enemy fire and extraction is deemed too risky as the LZ was "way too fucking hot". The team is left with no choice but to take cover and shoot it out with Makarov's forces. BRAVO-Team was able to inflict heavy casualties against a larger force due to superior fire discipline and cover, although they were not without their own fatalities. Spectre 6-4 is lost after substantiating continued anti-aircraft fire and MacTavish is thrown by the blast of a spray RPG round and suffers concussion damage as BRAVO-Team secures a defensive position around their wounded teammate. The firefight lasts for almost an hour before a V-22 Osprey was able to land. Acting under the orders of Captain Price BRAVO-Team medevacs MacTavish as he (Bravo-Six) provides covering fire using a SIG-Sauer P220 as his only remaining weapon system before he is shot and overrun. MacTavish recovers and Task Force 141 mourns their losses vowing vengeance against Makarov. Unbeknownst to them John Price is be captured and sent to the PETROPAVLOVSK GULAG for torture and interrogation.
December 3 - The Russian Ultranationalist Party defeat the Russian Loyalist Party both militarily and politically in effect ending the Second Russian Civil War. Boris Vorshevsky is sworn in as the President of New Russia with Valeri Volodin as his Prime Minister. The biggest military parade is conducted in the history of Post-Soviet Union Russia as Volodin warns the West of any future aggression against her citizens and Russian affairs and interests. Loyalist supporters and sympathizers are either imprisoned into gulags on indefinite sentences as "Enemies of the New Motherland" or summarily executed via public hangings or firing squads (though some Loyalist soldiers and politicians defected to the West taking asylum in the EUROPEAN UNION or neighboring Ukraine. Peace and rebuilding begin in war-torn Russia. Volodin along with the support of other silovik leaders in the Ultranationalist Party (now known as the "NOVOROSSIYA PARTY") along with the political leadership and military-industrial leaders in BEIJING, CHINA begin a swift re-militarization of New Russia's Armed Forces rapidly rebuilding the manpower, munitions, and industry lost during the civil war along with the addition of the latest Chinese military equipment and the financial aid of loans. A new nationalist fervor sweeps the NRAFs as soldiers began to believe that they were invincible. Russians nationwide burn US and UK flags in response to what Volodin terms "the gleeful mockery and rejection of America and her Western allies at Russia's humiliation and poverty" after the fall of the Soviet Union. The NEW RUSSIAN FEDERATION is founded.
December 11 - The COLLECTIVE SECURITY TREATY ORGANIZATION (CSTO) composing of former Eurasian Soviet client states BELARUS, ARMENIA, KYRGYZSTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, CZERVENIA, KASTOVIA, CHERNARUS, EDONIA, MORSKOJ, KAMISTAN, SLOBORSKAIA and SOVOKIA unanimously reaffirm the legitimacy of the government of the New Russian Federation, it's sovereignty and it's leadership as it's head member.
December 12 - The United Nations is split on voting to recognize the New Russian Federation has the legitimate government of Russia. The US and UK veto a UN resolution by the People's Republic of China to recognize the NRF as the legitimate Russian Government.
December 24 - Captain John Price is listed K.I.A. by Task Force 141 and MI6.
December 24 - A joint NATO-New Russia agreement spearheaded by France is declared with the respect to Ukraine's distributed Donbas region, which is now annexed and declared to be a part of New Russia. In return New Russia under the leadership of Valeri Volodin recognizes Ukraine's admission into NATO and France officially opens diplomatic ties with New Russia.
December 24 - Vladimir Makarov goes off-grid and is officially declared "in the wind" by Task Force 141.
2014
January 13 - President Caldwell's first STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS since taking office. Her main points include a devotion to upholding homeland security against both right and left winged domestic terrorist-extremists, her four year economic goal of stopping the financial spiraling, bleeding and reviving the American economy and industry damaged by the True Patriots and their terrorist attacks on Wall Street as well as a new foreign policy towards the New Russia and her allies. Acknowledging the radical shifting of ideologies back to the Cold War, President Caldwell recognizes the renewed hostilities between the two countries now essentially East vs West. This is most notably articulated in what political analysts call her STEEL CURTAIN Speech about the revival of a Neo Soviet Union.
April 3 - New Russia deploys missile defense systems and army divisions in what use to be Eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
April 7 - Volodin in a Novorossiya Party speech condemns the expansion of NATO declaring as nothing more then another puppet whore for the United States to enrich its defense industry. He declares that pretty soon New Russia and Europe would destroy each other while the Americans will get wealthier with their blood. The speech goes against the sentiments of President Vorshevsky who wishes mutual peace in Eurasia after nearly a decade of war between Russia and her neighbors.
May 8 - Lieutenant John MacTavish is promoted to Captain and becomes the acting Field Commander of Task Force 141.
June 9 - Mexico is declared a "failed state" as the level of corruption overwhelms the government. President Nieto is killed by a car bomb (CIA intelligence points the perpetrators as members of COIFE, Mexico's Special Forces Corps under the orders of CISEN and SEIDO by the influence of major cartels) and his successor MANUEL GOMEZ OBRADOR under pressure by his party publicly declares an armistice unofficially ending the Mexican Drug War.
October 23 - OPERATION SHUT IT DOWN commences. TASK FORCE MAKO a TIER-1 Operator Group consisting of the elite members of DEVGRU, more popularly referred to as SEAL TEAM SIX, and TASK FORCE BLACKBIRD consisting of CIA's SAD operators and SFOD-D members are sent into CHITRAL, Pakistan to kill the most wanted Terrorist in the world, Nusir Al-Muhammad Hassan known as "the Cleric", the sole leader of Al-Qaeda. A vicious firefight ensues in the Cleric's compound resulting in numerous Al-Qaeda deaths with minimal US causalities. DEVGRU Operator THOMAS "PREACHER" WALKER with the help of SFOD-D Operator HANK "DUSTY" FRIES (coming out of retirement) succeed in killing him with a head shot before the Cleric could detonate his suicide vest. Al-Qaeda is effectively weaken to the point of being destroyed.
November 4 - The REPUBLIC OF CUBA is the first country outside Eastern Europe to officially open diplomatic ties with New Russia. The New York Times features a photograph of President Vorshevsky shaking hands with FIRST SECRETARY FIDEL CASTRO during their meeting in Havana with the headline reading "ENEMY AT THE GATES"
November 8 - The US calls for economic sanctions leveled at Cuba in a General Assembly meeting in the United Nations with the reason being that Cuba is aiding an authoritarian junta instead of the legitimate sovereign Russian government-in-exile (the Loyalists). The motion is vetoed by New Russia. The UN General Assembly is divided on the legitimacy of of the new, de facto Russian Government.
December 30 - On the anniversary of the founding of the Novorossiya Party Imran Zakhaev is declared a martyr-hero for "New Russia" and a grand statue is built in his memory. Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow is renamed by President Vorshevsky into ZAKHAEV INTERNATIONAL in his honor.
2015
January 1 - Vladimir Makarov becomes the CIA's "MOST WANTED TERRORIST" with his personal dossier file ending with the statement "He's not loyal to a flag or a country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money."
February 16 - On the anniversary of the expiration of the "SINO-SOVIET TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND ALLIANCE" President Volodin and the PARAMOUNT LEADER TSING and PRESIDENT OF CHINA TSING SHI TAO along with New Russia and Chinese officials gathered in Moscow to sign the "BEIJING-MOSCOW AGREEMENT FOR ALLIANCE AND GROWTH" which was effectively a non-aggression pact along with a treaty of mutual economic and military alliance in addition to an "Open Borders" treaty allowing free movement of their citizens to each other's countries (similar to the EU). The agreement also marked the PRC recognizing the legitimacy of the Novorossiya government in Russia (as presented in a speech by China's representative in the United Nations) being the first great power to do so. The US along with other NATO and EU countries still recognize the Loyalist government in exile as the true political leadership of Russia and the current government of New Russia as a military coup. A joint-military parade of the PLA and NRAF was launched on the streets of Saint Petersberg to the thundering applause of Russian and Chinese nationalists. It was the largest military parade in world history lasting for ten days commemorating the OCTOBER REVOLUTION or more popularly known as "THE TEN DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD". CNN, UNI, BBC and GLOBAL WEEKLY report the signing of the treaty as the rise of Neo-Authoritarianism and the beginning of a New Soviet era in the 21st century. Political experts in the US and UK stated that this alliance is "the greatest threat to peace faced by the Western World in the 21st Century".
February 17 - The BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS set the DOOMSDAY CLOCK 100 seconds before MIDNIGHT ZERO-HOUR (imminent global nuclear war)
April 11 - Task Force 141's ONE-ONE TEAM (led by Ghost and Gaz) conducts an operation to save a hostage from Ultranationalists aboard a plane. They save the hostage and freefall to safety out of the plane before it exploded. One-One was not identified and the incident remains under investigation by the Ultranationalists. The identity of the hostage remains CLASSIFIED.
June 1 - President Caldwell orders the beginning of the withdrawal of most US Forces from the Middle East as she pledged. This action results in a severe political backlash by her opponents and some in her own party.
August 4 - MacMillan becomes the Director of Special Forces for the 22nd SAS based in HEREFORD, HEREFORDSHIRE, England. His first order of business is to locate and neutralize Makarov and anyone involved in his terrorist network. Operation Kingfish was reactivated.
2016 - (COD Modern Warfare 2 "Modified-Canon")
August 10 - Private First Class JOSEPH ALLEN helps Sergeant TIMOTHY FOLEY (both of the 1st BATTALION, 7th RANGER REGIMENT) train AFGHAN COALITION troops at Firebase PHOENIX in ZABUL, AFGHANISTAN over seen by Lieutenant-General Shepherd himself. Training is interrupted when a distress call from a Brigade Combat Team is made and Firebase Phoenix is mobilize to rescue them. BCT-One was ambushed by OpFor during a routine patrol of a seemingly peaceful Afghan town when a vanguard of enemy forces sought to overrun their position. The indigenous populous had either alert OpFor or were enemy combatants themselves in disguise. PFC. Allen along with Sergeant Foley and the U.S. Army Rangers take the fight to OpFor with M1A1 Abrams and M104 Wolverines from the 3rd CAVALRY REGIMENT. The attack was successful and BCT-One was saved and OpFor Vanguard Forces destroyed. During the battle PFC. Joseph Allen distinguished himself for gallantry and is personally chosen by General Shepherd be reassigned to the CIA to be overseen by him for a special operation.
August 11 - OPERATION CLIFFHANGER, Captain MacTavish and Roach infiltrate a Russian airbase in the TIAN SHAN MOUNTAINS of Kazakhstan in order to retrieve a satellite ACS module (code-named KEYSTONE) that fell into Russian hands. Using the cover of a snowstorm, Roach plants C4 throughout the base while MacTavish locates the ACS module. The pair are compromised when the Russians discover MacTavish in the hanger containing the module, and are forced to use "Plan B" by detonating the C4 Roach planted. The explosions allow MacTavish and Roach to escape the base via snowmobiles, and are picked up by Task Force 141 once free of pursuers.
August 12 - 0841 The ZAHKAEV INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MASSACRE occurs, Vladimir Makarov's most nefarious terrorist operation. Intelligence gathered from Operation Kingfish revealed this a year before a plan in the work of a similar magnitude but the exact details were unclear. CCTV security cams on approximately 08:41:51 AM (the busiest time in ZIA) pick up five men dressed in designer Emporio Armani suits exiting out a staff maintenance shaft elevator onto ZIA's Terminal 4 main check in. Four were armed with American belt fed M240 LMGs (firing 7.62×51mm NATO cartridges) complete with American serial numbers (as discovered by New Russia's FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE or SVR) and body armor faced a very confused and scared crowd of civilians and security alike. For a split moment both parties were frozen in time, before Makarov and his team opened fire indiscriminately on civilians (minors were not exempted) and airport security alike with fully automatic fire. Scores were kill instantly as the rounds ripped were heads, limbs and body alike within seconds. The terrorists proceed to walk through the whole of Terminal 4 massacring anyone they could find, shooting repeatedly even after some had died. Anti-personnel grenades were used to shred hiding and fleeing civilians as bullets tore through cafes, shopping malls, food courts and book stores alike. Audio in camera became impossible to hear above the screams of civilians particularly that of children.
ZIA security were initially overwhelmed by the sheer firepower leveled against them by American military grade weapons (most were fielding P-62 pistols and RMB93 pump-action shotguns) and elite military level grade combined arms training (the terrorist displayed an advance understanding of suppression fire, moving overwatch, center peeling and advance cover tactics) that essentially gave their a force-multiplier to that of being a small army, and suffered severe casualties despite the courage demonstrated under fire. The terrorists proceeded to step onto the tarmac (potentially with the intention of destroying New Russian airbuses) and were confronted by New Russia's OMON (Russian SWAT teams). Initially OMON were successful in pinning the terrorists down with their semi-automatic weapon but Makarov's team processed American M203 grenade launchers and the previously mentioned M67 frag grenades. There combined arms rendered the tightly packed shield formation of the OMON useless and walking killzones. Approximately over 5000 rounds of ammunition was exchanged and two of the terrorists were gunned down before Makarov makes his escape (by what means is unknown according to SVR' sources). One last body was found by the OMON that of an "ALEXEI BORODIN". SVR later discovered him to be Private First Class Joseph Allen. The duration of the massacre was an hour and four minutes long.
CIA intelligence have a different account and addition information. After slaughtering scores of civilians, Makarov's team moves out to the tarmac and engages OMON and Federal Security Service (FSB) forces. Makarov's personal confidantes and high ranking members of his Organization, Lev Grygovych and Kiril Alekhin, are killed in the fighting. As they board a vehicle (alleged to be an ambulance) for escape, Makarov fatally shoots Alexei Borodin, revealing that he knows he is an embedded CIA agent. The FSB recovers Borodin's body and later identifies him as Joseph Allen. Whether Allen had participated in the massacre is unknown, but it is known and proven that he did returned fire when shot at by ZIA security and when engaging the OMON/FSB. Later on western cyber-intelligence agencies (MI6, CIA, CSIS) de-crypted computer drive gathered from Operation Kingfish and discovered Makarov's code name for the terrorist attack: "NE RUSSKIY" or NO RUSSIAN
Prior to the attack (according third party actors which might or might not be Russian Loyalist intelligence sources) an unnamed member of Makarov's team was reluctant to go through with the massacre and tried to prevent it. Makarov shoots him personally for his refusal, leaving him to die. Severely wounded, the man still attempts to follow and stop Makarov, but passes out from blood loss and is later saved by paramedics. He is left to die in the airport's parking garage while Makarov and his men then ascend to Terminal 4 (approximate time, 8:34 AM). This subject to scrutiny as whether said man is Alexei Borodin (J. Allen) or someone else completely.
Total number of causalities (discounting terrorists) is 325, with 679 injured as a direct consequence of the attack.
August 12 - 1730 The Director of the CIA brings to the attention of President Caldwell that one of their operatives was embedded under deep cover in Makarov's organization and had not only taken part in the attack but was killed and discovered by the FSB. President Caldwell was stated to have lamented, saying "What have you done to us all? You have forsaken this century." Caldwell orders JSOC to extract all VIP and HVI Americans (excluding military individuals) stationed overseas and bring them back state-side within twenty-four hours.
August 13 - 900 A warmongering Volodin appears on the state owned television station, ROSSIYA-1 to address the massacre and vows swift vengeance on the actors responsible in a fiery speech, "No one is out of our reach. No jaw is strong enough to withstand our fist! They will pay with their blood! They will pay for our blood and the blood of our children!" Russian churches are filled with mourners as memorials and funerals are held nation wide for the victims. Recruitment for the NRAF skyrockets as Russian youth flood to join. National fervor sweeps all across the country as Volodin calls for New Russia to defend herself. In response President Vorshevsky calls for calm resolve in his country as he orders an investigation on the attack.
August 13 - 1100 US and NATO forces are ordered to DEFCON 2. President Caldwell orders the withdrawal of most US ground forces stationed over seas (in particular the 1st Battalion, 75th Rangers) under the cover of her withdrawal plan (in truth it was to prepare for the potential upcoming Russian attack).
August 13 - 1928 SVR brings the revelation to President Vorshevsky that one of the ZIA terrorists was Joseph Allen of the 75th Rangers, a US citizen and CIA operative. Vorshevsky under the urging of the Novorossiya Party (in particular Prime Minister Valeri Volodin) announces in the presence of the Russian Federal Assembly during a secret meeting an order to attack the United States. NRAF is mobilized within forty-eight hours. President Tao announces his government's full support for the attack. The leaders of the PLA and NRFA launch OPERATION PAUL REVERE, a joint New Russian-Chinese navy First-Strike to weaken US and NATO Naval capacities along the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in preparation for a mainland invasion of the US. New Russian-Chinese Submarine and Frigate fleets move in place for an attack on US ships conducting operations along the Atlantic and Pacific. The joint operation had been in the planning stage for years.
August 13 - SVR and MSS (China's MINISTRY OF STATE SECURITY) launched OPERATION NOSFERATU a joint Chinese-Russian cyber-attack on US-NATO defense networks, particularly that of US' NORAD system, based on a detailed plan in the works years prior off of the intelligence they had gained from KEYSTONE. Under the oversight of PLA General SHIN FAI, an elite team of Russian and Chinese "Super Hackers" led by the China's famed "BLACK LOTUS" unleashes a super cyber-virus (code-named NOSFERATU) into US and NATO mainframes that effectively scrambles the signatures of most of their GPS satellites and defense networks. The hack also allowed SPO access into the locations and movement of all NATO forces and military bases in real time. Nosferatu is a metamorphic-code malware "omni-functional" in nature, meaning it functions as a Trojan, Worm, Ransomware and Spyware all at once. It is the first of it's kind and the Black Lotus' crowning achievement. It was transmitted during a cross "pollination" of CIA and MI6 intelligence by a false Russian Loyalist agent (code-named ORLOK). By what mean is still unclear and under investigation by the CIA.
August 12 - 0437 The INVASION OF ALASKA begins. New Russia's 35th, 36th 37th COMBINED ARMS ARMY and the 11th, 12th, and 22nd SEPARATE AIRBORNE BRIGADE with support from the New Russian Navy along with the PEOPLE'S LIBERATION NAVY cross the CHUKCHI SEA completely taking ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND before making landfall on the SEWARD PENINSULA. Nosferatu effectively throws the US NORTHERN-PACIFIC FLEET in disarray splitting the task force fleets in multiple directions as New Russian submarines begin to pick off isolated US ships with their greatest blow being the destruction of the USS CARL VINSON The ALASKAN NATIONAL GUARD and ALASKAN STATE DEFENSE FORCE is overwhelmed by the New Russian blitz and take severe causalities. The 36th, and 37th Army move in to secure airstrips along the Seward Peninsula allowing for the VKS (NEW RUSSIAN AEROSPACE FORCES) to mobilize on American soil while the 35th Army is to remain and secure St. Lawrence Island using it as a launch point to conduct attacks along the WESTERN US COAST. The Governor of Alaska declares a state of emergency as a massive New Russian force prepares to move in and take NOME, ALASKA. The United States Armed Forces is ordered to DEFCON 1.
August 12 - 1400 President Vorshevsky on Rossiya-1 announce that New Russia officially declares war on the United States citing the massacre as the casus belli and revealing the identity of Joseph Allen. New Russia orders the massive mobilization of over 700,000 reservists for war and an additional 500,000 are drafted from Central Russia and Siberia. The NEW RUSSO-AMERICAN WAR begins.
August 12 - 1433 The Doomsday Clock is set 13 seconds before Midnight Zero-Hour.
August 13 - 0350 The ST. MATTHEW and NUNIVAK ISLANDS fall to New Russian control. Russians push in and control Nome, Alaska. US Atlantic Fleet regroups and engages the New Russian Navy cultivating in the BATTLE OF THE BERING STRAIT which results in a stalemate as a majority of the US Northern Pacific Fleet were unable to fully deploy due to air- harassment by Russian MiG-41s deployed on St. Lawrence Island and along the Seward Peninsula. The fighting continues. Alaskan Nation Guard along with the Alaskan State Defense Force and local law enforcement and militia retreat to form a strong fortified position around the city of ANCHORAGE in the heart of Alaska. The US responds by mobilizing a majority of it's homeland force along the West Coast believing the Russian's will attack major cities like LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO.
August 13 - 0812 CIA assets on the ground in New Russia manage to retrieve a spend shell casing in ZIA Massacre and link it to ALEJANDRO ROJAS or "ALEX THE RED" as he is known in the criminal underworld, a feared gun runner and "Dealer of Death" for Vladimir Makarov. Rojas is also reported to be Makarov's primary ammunition supplier by Loyalist sources. How he is able to evade the CIA dragnet is unknown. General Shepherd send Task Force 141 to RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL to capture and interrogate him (the mission code-named: OPERATION TAKEDOWN). Being in evasion with his whereabouts unknown, Bravo Team's Captain MacTavish along with Roach and Ghost monitor and tail chase Rojas' assistant instead. They were spotted after tailing him in a car and the trio give chase when he ran. Roach shoots Rojas' assistant in leg, disabling him. Afterward, Soap and Ghost interrogate him (by what means are CLASSIFIED by the order of General Shepherd, through in his words "deemed appropriate in the situation") forcing him to reveal Rojas' location. Roach, along with team members "MEAT" and "ROYCE", locate and chase Alejandro Rojas into the favela. Rio de Janeiro's favelas are notorious for being gang infested and Rojas' militia (armed with military grade weapons) ambush the trio. After a ferocious fire fight Meat and Royce are killed, leaving Roach to pursue Rojas alone. The chase covered most of the length of the favela even going so far as continuing onto rooftops. Captain MacTavish successfully captures Rojas by grabbing him after jumping through a window and landing on top of a car. MacTavish suffered various injuries in the pursuit although most were treatable.
August 13 - 0640 The New Russian Navy under the cover of Nosferatu and the Alaskan offensive manages to evade the US Atlantic Fleet long enough to make landfall along the East Coast of the US. The invasion of Virginia, New York, Boston and Maine begin spearheaded by what would make up the main New Russian attack force in the war, the 41st, 57th, 36th and 22nd COMBINED ARMS ARMY, along with the 4th, 8th GUARDS TANK ARMY and the 74th and 3rd GUARD AIRBORNE DIVISON in an coordinated attack by sea, land and air against American cities. The objectives were to cost as much destruction to to US infrastructure as possible, hold coastal cities like New York and Boston for usage as a support point for New Russian Forces and to topple President Caldwell' administration from power. The Alaskan offensive was revealed to be nothing more than a diversionary feint and the result was devastating. New Russia's Eastern Offensive drew first blood. OPERATION COWBOY was well underway.
August 13 - 0649 The UNITED STATES SECRET SERVICE (USSS) evacuates President Caldwell from the White House. She is put on AIR FORCE 1 and sent airborne escorted by a flight of F-22 Raptors. Their destination is UNKNOWN. She makes a live broadcast abroad Air Force 1 denying any American involvement in the Zakhaev International Airport Massacre. Caldwell acknowledges New Russia's invasion of Alaska as well as the East Coast. She tells fellow Americans that "We will drive away the invaders using every ounce of weaponry we have. We will protect our freedom no matter the cost. We will fight with everything in our soul for our nation's future. Our dear friends are with us. The world is with us and the truth of our innocence will be known." and formally declares war with support of Congress against the New Russian Federation.
August 13 - 0700 QUEEN ELIZABETH II of House Windsor ruling Monarch of the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth formally declares war against the New Russian Federation before the British Parliament on BBC. Nearing the age of her nineties she was helped to podium by her Grandson, PRINCE WILLIAM the Duke of Cambridge, heavily rumored to be the heir apparent to the British Throne. Her words echoed across the British Isles and around the world,
"...I fondly remember in youth when I was a girl during the Second World War. Our nation stood together in arms with the United States. Despite our past history and differences we fought, bled, suffered and died for each other. We won a war together and our forged friendship made all the difference in the course of history. I am immensely proud, my dearly beloved friends, as we once stood with you we stand with you again. This time in the twilight years of my life. The United States heard our cries during our darkest hour and we will not forsake them in theirs's. The coming days will be very dark once again, filled with great suffering and evil not only just in North America or in Western Europe but the whole world. No one can predict what the future has in store for the whole of humanity, let alone for the fate of the United Kingdom and her Commonwealth. We can only pray. And in my private prayers I beseech God, for His grace to carry me through; that I may be allowed a little more time to live my life on this mortal plain and to lead our country through the most perilous trial we are set to face in the twenty-first century. No matter what our countries may have to endure, whatever it may be we have to face, let us take valor in our hearts as we once did long ago in the face of cataclysm and calamity; and doing so take solace in the knowing that the United Kingdom and the United States will face it together yet again, has brothers."
- Queen Elizabeth II, Palace of Westminster, London, England, House of Parliament, BBC News Live amongst a thunderous applause
August 13 - 1609 Task Force 141 escapes Rio de Janiero from some 200 Militia with the help of the Russian Loyalist pilot Nikolai (flying a Pavelow). On the way to the extraction point Roach slips and falls off a roof and is forced to run through the favela before jumping off of a building to grab hold of the Pavelow's ladder. With Alejandro Rojas' info (extracted through torture), the team learns that a HVI and great personal enemy of Vladimir Makarov is being held in a gulag in Russia. General Shepherd sends Task Force 141 along with the 6th FLEET and the U.S. Navy SEALS, to retrieve the asset.
August 13 - Private James Ramirez of the U.S. Army Rangers, under the command Sergeant Foley, helps locate and protect a high-ranking government official code-name "RAPTOR" in Northeastern Virginia while also defending against the invading New Russians. Through the streets of ARCADIA, Northeastern Virginia, Ramirez, Foley, Corporal Dunn (cooperatively known as HUNTER TWO-ONE) and the US Army Rangers aided by an IAV Stryker code-named "HONEY BADGER" assist the civilian evacuations whilst neutralizing anti-air guns and Russian troops, as well as locating General Shepherd's HVI code-named "ICEPICK". He was K.I.A. executed by one of Makarov's close confidant VIKTOR SYDNORSKI, a high-ranking member of Makarov's terrorist organization who escaped once the presence of Hunter Two-One was known in the area. (!*) When brief about his death Shepherd commented that it wasn't his life that he cared about but the USB drive hidden in the soles of his shoes that he was after. Hunter Two-One retrieves the Intel.
August 13 - President Caldwell conducts high-level talks with her Cabinet on whether the US should use tactical nuclear weapons and ICBMs to repel the Russian attackers. They came to an unanimous agreement.
August 14 - NATO activates it's mutual defense pact with the United States and officially declares war on New Russia and CSTO. In response the SCO (SHANGHAI COOPERATION ORGANISATION) and it's member states declare war on NATO for New Russia's and their mutual allies' defense. WORLD WAR III has begun.
August 14 - The BATTLE OF WASHINGON D.C. begins.
August 14 - The INVASION OF UKRAINE begins. The New Russia Federation invades Ukraine with its Western Army composing of numerous tank, infantry, and artillery divisions complete with air support.
August 14 - On Vikhorevka 36 Oil Platform near the coast of New Russia, Captain MacTavish along Task Force 141 with aided by the U.S. Navy SEALs, rescue political hostages and clear the platforms of enemy resistance, allowing US Marines to disable SAM sites. Forty miles East of Petropavlosk, New Russia, with the help of the U.S. Navy SEALS, Captain MacTavish with Bravo-Team and other Task Force 141 members extract Prisoner #627 (revealed to be Captain Price) from the Gulag.
August 14 - As the war rages in Washington, D.C., Hunter Two-One and US Army Rangers defend the WASHINGTON MONUMENT evacuation site from the fifth floor of the US DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. The New Russians have overrun the city. Central Command orders all US Ranger units to assist the withdrawal of all civilians and wounded personnel (EVACUATION ORDER APRIL) in preparation for HAMMERDOWN being in effect (the massive carpet bombing of Washington D.C. by B-52 Stratofortress bombers with the intent of leveling the city to kill as many invaders as possible). Hunter Two-One is evacuated by a UH-60 Black Hawk, but are shot down by a massive SAM battery on top of the Department of Justice. They survive the crash and make their last stand against a flood of attacking New Russian soldiers.
(!) Captain Price leads Task Force 141 to infiltrate a New Russian submarine base located 14 miles SSE of PETROPAVLOSK, New Russia. Once the base is secure Captain Price tortures the commanding XO to acquire the launch codes and contacts Russian Ministry of Defence to tell them of his intention to fire an ICBM at their forces fighting in the East Coast of the US as revenge for the torture he had suffered as their prisoner. The words ignited a tense standoff between Task Force 141 and the SEALs as General Shepherd ordered Price to stand down. Price disobeys. MacTavish questions his former Captain and his sanity of which Price just simply responses "When have I ever let you down Soap? " The Russian Minister of Defence hearing the exchange calls his buff and Price enters the submarine alone and launches an ICBM. The action is reported to New Russian forces and drives them in confusion and disarray as multiple New Russian, Chinese, French, Germany, American and British satellites detect the ICBM's trajectory within the coming minutes. New Russian High Command orders for a full retreat as Americans were told to hold their position the reasoning being a retreat would be futile. Just before reentry Price self-destructs the ICBM safety still in the atmosphere.
His gambit works and the resulting chaos gives the initiative back to the Americans as they capitalize on the New Russian rout ensuring the survival of US Forces in Washington, D.C. Hunter Two-One and the US Army Rangers link up with USSS Agents led by former Ranger MIKE BANNING and under the command of Colonel KIRK MARSHALL cut through the Eisenhower Building and retake WHISKEY HOTEL also famously known as the WHITE HOUSE. The team dispatches green flares on top of the White House to signal the B-52s in the nick of time to stop the bombing run. Washington D.C. is saved as the New Russians are pushed out of the city. (!)
August 15 - Underneath a bunker located in the COLORADO MOUNTAINS, General Shepherd receives a blank check from the U.S. Secretary of Defense WILLIAM CULLEN (authorized by President Caldwell herself) securing anything he needs to kill Vladimir Makarov by whatever means deemed necessary.
Following a intelligence from an undercover Russian Loyalist source (obtained thanks to "Icepick") Captain MacTavish and Price (141 ALPHA) hunt for Vladimir Makarov in US Vehicle Disposal Yard 437 nicknamed "THE BONEYARD" located in KANDAHAR province, Eastern Afghanistan while 141 Bravo (composing of Roach, Ghost, Gaz, Ozone, Scarecrow, Archer, and Toad) and the rest of Task Force 141 look for him at a safehouse at the Georgia-Russia border. Roach and Ghost, having not found Makarov at his safehouse instead found a treasure trove, Makarov's own personal computer. Quickly they set up a DSM and started to copy the files. Ozone and Scarecrow are killed by Makarov's personal bodyguards and most loyal terrorists (a death squad composing of corrupt elite ex-ALFA and VYMPEL Spetsnaz soldiers known as the KREKAVACS or the "SCREECHERS" in the Russian underworld). Roach and Ghost defend the house from Makarov's death squads and then head for the extraction point to be picked up by General Shepherd in a MH-6 Little Bird Helicopter. They are betrayed and killed by their own Commander, who starts his own personal war for his own agenda. Roach and Ghost's bodies are unceremoniously burned and dumped into a mass grave to eliminate evidence of his betrayal,. Concurrently MacTavish and Price are attacked by General Shepherd personal cadre of Private Military Contractors (Code-named SHADOW COMPANY or the UMBRA CORPs) as well as Makarov's Spetsnaz Forces. In the fighting between two opposing forces MacTavish and Price are separated. Both hostile forces had air support as they fought a small war along the barren scrapyard. Stealthily MacTavish makes his way through the heat of the battle, avoiding the contact with hostile forces to link back up with Price. And together they make their way to the extraction point. Price contacts Nikolai to extract him and Soap with his C-130, which Nikolai agrees to do. In vain MacTavish tries to contact 141 Bravo to alert them of the double-cross, not knowing that they are already dead. Price reveals to MacTavish their deaths stating that Shepherd is "cleaning" house, and tells the traitor that he is on his way to him. A three-way battle ensues between 141 Alpha, Shepherd's PMCs and Makarov's Spetsnaz. On the way of their escape Captain Price taps into Makarov's channels and tells him that Shepherd is now a "war hero" with a blank check and information about his movements. Price offers to take out Shepherd for Makarov claiming he is more dangerous then both of them, and the latter happily gives up Shepherd's base of operations, SITE HOTEL BRAVO located nearby in Afghanistan.
Reaching the exfil point, Nikolai comments on the hectic battle below and knowing that it is too dangerous to linger around threatens to leave them if 141 Alpha takes too long. MacTavish makes his way to Price, who has another Task Force 141 soldier code-named ROOK, one of the few survivors of Shepherd's betrayal, commandeer a jeep to escape. A vicious vehicle battle ensues and in the process, Rook is killed by a stray gunshot by PMCs. His foot still on the pedal, MacTavish is forced to steer the jeep into the cargo hold of Nikolai's C-130 and they manage to escape. 141 Alpha along with the remaining member of Task Force 141 are declared wanted war criminals and a global manhunt begins for the two along with any surviving Task Force 141 members. With most of 141 eliminated and nearly out of allies that they can trust, Captain Price and MacTavish resolve to embark on a suicide mission to infiltrate Site Hotel Bravo with one goal only: KILL SHEPHERD
August 16 - MacTavish and Price infiltrate Site Hotel Bravo in Afghanistan fighting PMC forces through a grotto with many rock formations and rapids as they chase after Shepherd. Near the end of the rapids they find him, as he boards a Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low that was waiting for him by the main river. MacTavish and Price give chase, pursuing him on a stolen Zodiac boat. Price manages to successfully shot down at the Pave Low's rotor by gunfire. As the helicopter spins out of control the fast-moving current of the rapids keeps MacTavish and Price from reversing and their Zodiac goes over a nearby waterfall.
MacTavish regains consciousness on the shore near the waterfall, but Price is nowhere to be seen. A sandstorm had suddenly began to engulf the area. He draws his combat knife and slowly searches the wreckage of the helicopter's crash site for General Shepherd. The two pilots were still alive and MacTavish kills one as he tries to shoot him with a empty pistol while the other bleeds to death trying to crawl away. In the distance MacTavish sees the a shadow and finds Shepherd leaning against a ruined truck. MacTavish jumps at the moment to kill him, but Shepherd blocks the stab and rams MacTavish's head on the car causing the SAS Captain's head to bounce off the metal and to fall on his back. Shepherd draws his KA-BAR knife and stabs MacTavish in the chest. As he lies dying Shepherd briefly explains why he betrayed them, how the world was so indifferent to the lost of "30,000 men in the blink of an eye," how the world "just fucking watched" cold and indifferent to the dear price paid by US soldiers. He loads his .44 Magnum aims at MacTavish's head. Before he can kill him, Price tackles Shepherd and makes him miss the shot. A furious fist fight ensures over the gun and Price wrestles and kicks away the pistol from Shepherd's hand just before the American takes the Briton down to the ground. MacTavish seeing an opportunity crawls towards the fallen gun but just when he is within reach, Shepherd downs Price down with a blow to the head, kicks the pistol away from before stomping on MacTavish's face. Price is up again and tackles Shepherd to the ground. MacTavish watches helplessly as Shepherd drops Price down again with his punches and mounts him. He begins to beat Price mercilessly, repeatedly beating him in the face, trying to kill Price with his bare hands. MacTavish's eyes caught hold of the knife in his chest. He slowly and painfully MacTavish pulls it out of his chest and aims it at Shepherd. At that moment Price presses his hand into Shepherd's face moving his head towards his direction. MacTavish hurls the knife and it lands clean into Shepherd's left eye killing him.
After a moment Price recovers, coughing and injured stumbles towards an bleeding MacTavish lying on the ground. He begins to treat his teammate's wound just as a MH-6 Little Bird lands. Price recognizes the pilot as Nikolai and helps MacTavish into the helicopter. Nikolai exits the helicopter to assist, warning that 'they' will be looking for us. Captain Price nods and tells Nikolai that they need to get out of there. The Russian nods before saying that he knows a place.
August 17 - SAS Captains John Price and John MacTavish go off grid.
August 18 - Vladimir Makarov is declared to be "in the wind" by the CIA and MI6.
August 18 - Task Force 141 is DISAVOWED by the United States and NATO. Records of their existence are officially erased by their respective governments.
August 19 - The BATTLE OF MAINE begins. The CIA and FBI along with MI6 declare Task Force 141 along with Makarov to be WANTED TERRORISTS in connection with the death of General Shepherd.
August 22 - The BATTLE OF BOSTON begins.
August 30 - The FALL OF KYIV occurs. The New Russian Federation mauls through the rest of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and successfully occupies the country with the help of Pro-New Russian Separatists.
September 1 - The BATTLE OF MANHATTAN begins.
September 8 - The INVASION OF FINLAND, ESTONIA, LATVIA, and LITHUANIA begins. The CSTO invade the Republic of Finland and the NATO Baltic States. New Russian Forces poured into the 800 mile border dividing Russia and Finland. Norwegian forces meet the New Russian invaders along their border in defense of Finland.
(!) - Subject to Immediate Retconning for TCCOD
(#) - The Canonical Timeline is always subjected to be changed or retconned for storyline and continuity purposes. Be warned this is a working draft as opposed to a final one which will never truly exist
