History Timeline / CallOfDuty

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'''Note:''' Technically speaking, outside of the specific storylines of the ''Modern Warfare'' and ''Black Ops'' series's, each ''Call of Duty'' game is effectively self-contained and doesn't really influence or affect other games outside it's storyline. ''Ghosts, Advanced Warfare'' and ''Infinite Warfare'' are within their own continuity. ''Modern Warfare (2019)'' is an UltimateUniverse reboot of the original ''Modern Warfare'' storyline, and [[CanonWelding as of]] ''2021'', [[SharedUniverse shares a universe]] with ''Black Ops'' and Sledgehammer's WWII entries.

!!Main Universe (as of 2020)

!!1990's

* 1996; John Price and Captain Macmillan covertly infiltrate the abandoned city of Pripyat within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in an attempt to assassinate Imran Zakhaev, a high-ranking weapons dealer and fuel rod smuggler with ties to the nascent Ultranationalist movement within Russia. Zakhaev loses an arm in the attempt but is evacuated by Vladimir Makarov and survives.

!!2011

The geopolitical circumstances of the world of 2011 are very much similar to the real-life history of the period; UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror has left it's mark upon the reputation of the United States and it's allies and the Middle East is still a hotbed of instability and infrequent insurgent activity. One major change is within the Russian Federation, where growing dissatisfaction and a yearning to return to the "glory days" of the Soviet Union has fostered an Ultranationalist movement with both significant political clout within Russian Politics and an active well-armed insurgency fighting within the Caucus region.\\\

* Day 0; Captain John "Soap" Mctravish is assigned to Captain John Price's Special Air Service squad.
* Day 1; Capt. Price's SAS squad launch a midnight raid on the Estonian freighter ''Väljakutse'' at sea in the Bering Straight. They discover a nuclear warhead on board and uncover information suggesting it was intended to be smuggled to the Middle East, but the freighter is bombed by Ultranationalist aircraft before a more thorough search can be conducted and the squad is forced to evacuate.
** A few hours after the raid on the ''Valjakutse,'' in an unidentified Middle-Eastern country stretching from the Red Sea to the Tigris River, Khaled Al-Asad seizes power in a coup and executes the former president Yasir Al-Fulani in a live broadcast. Imran and Viktor Zakhaev are personally involved in the coup, in addition to having smuggled large amounts of weapons and material to Al-Asad's forces.
* Day 2; Soap, Price and Gaz are deployed into the Caucus region to extract informant Nikolai from an Ultranationalist held village amidst a midnight assault by Loyalist Russian forces lead by Sgt. Kamarov. They manage to extract Nikolai via helicopter but are shot down over a rural area [[note]] claimed to be in Arkhangelski of all things [[/note]], necessitating fire support from an American AC-130 to successfully evacuate.
** Just after midday, USMC 1st Force Recon Sergent Paul Jackson and Lieutenant Vasquez are part of a rapid attack on a Middle Eastern costal town [[note]] claimed to be Khafji [[/note]] made in an attempt to capture Al-Asad, but he simply isn't present.
* Day 3; Still in the Middle East [[note]] It's claimed to be Al Qunfudhah, but that's on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula to Khafji [[/note]] Sgt. Jackson is deployed to defend the immobilized tank ''War Pig'' from an enemy assault. ''War Pig'' is repaired within 12 hours [[note]] and teleports to Riyadh halfway across Saudi Arabia [[/note]] and assists in the assault on a nearby urban center.
** By evening, Sgt. Jackson is redeployed to the Capital City [[note]] Which appears to be Basra in Iraq [[/note]] alongside the bulk of the American invasion force in another attempt to capture Al-Asad amid concerns he may have a nuclear weapon in the city. A warhead is found and identified and an evacuation is called, but Sgt. Jackson's squad makes a last minute rescue of downed Cobra pilot Captain Pelayo and is caught in the blast when the warhead detonates. Over 30,000 American troops are killed along with countless civilians and much of the Capital City is destroyed.
* Day 4; Hours after the detonation of the warhead, Price's SAS team locates and assaults a safe house in Amsar, Azerbaijan holding Al-Asad. After a brief interrogation, Price connects Al-Asad to Zakhaev and executes him. Ultranationalist troops assault the SAS position the next morning but are held off long enough for the SAS to evacuate.
* Day 5; Viktor Zakhaev, field commander for the Ultranationalists and son of Imran, is identified at an Ultranationalist base in Uzlovoy and a combined SAS, 1st Recon, and Loyalist force attempts to capture him. Viktor is eventually cornered atop an apartment building but commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner. An enraged Imran issues an ultimatum and promises massive retaliation.
* Day 6; Ultranationalist troops capture and occupy a nuclear-armed missile base [[note]] the game claims it's in the Altai mountains near Mongolia but the location presented is in the Caucus mountains [[/note]] and prepares to launch nuclear missiles at the American east coast. A combined SAS and 1st Recon force is deployed to capture the base, with renewed urgency as the Ultranationalists launch two missiles, and eventually succeeds after heavy fighting. The missiles are disabled and the base is destroyed, but during the escape almost the entire force is killed, including Gaz and Staff Sgt. Griggs, when Zakhaev arrives in a Hind gunship. Soap manages to kill Zakhaev before Sgt. Kamarov arrives to rescue the survivors.

!!2013
* October 8th: Capt. John Price leads an attack on an Ultranationalist stronghold in the Ukrainian Karkonosze Mountains believed to be occupied by Makarov. The operation is a failure and Price is captured.

!!2016

The events of 2011 did not deescalate global tensions as hoped. The Russian Ultranationalist movement emerged from their leadership struggles as a more-moderate-but-politically-tenable political party that would take power with Boris Vorshevsky as President, resulting in a highly nationalistic shift in Russia's military. Most of the Ultranationalist insurrectionists split off under Vladimir Makarov and continued to undertake terrorist activity both domestically and globally. Non-Ultranationalist Russians are effectively forced underground with Sgt. Kamarov, Nikolai, and eventually Yuri forming a Loyalist resistance movement.\\\

To combat this threat, Task Force 141 - a multinational NATO-backed elite unit under the command of US General Shepard - is formed. Capt. John "Soap" Mctavish is assigned to the Task Force alongside Sgt. Gary "Roach" Sanderson and Lt. Simon "Ghost" Riley.\\\

* August 10th; While training Afghan National Army recruits in Afghanistan, Pfc. Joseph Allen alongside Sgt. Foley and Cpl. Dunn participates in the rescue of a recon unit from a militant-held town. Pfc. Allen's actions during the fighting earns him the attention of Gen. Shepard, who hand picks him for a special mission.
* August 11th; Task Force 141 operatives Soap and Roach infiltrate an Ultranationalist Government military base in the Tian Shan Mountain Range in Kazakhstan to recover an American Identification Friend/Foe chip taken from a downed satellite from it. The operation is successful, if improvised, but unknown to 141 the chip has already been decrypted to allow Russian transports to bypass American early-warning detection systems.
* August 12th; Pfc. Allen, whom Shepard has inserted into Makarov's inner circle, is present for the Zakhaev International Airport Massacre, where Makarov and his men gun down several hundred civilians despite heroic resistance from airport security and Moscow SWAT teams. Makarov escapes, but betrays and kills Pfc. Allen, leaving his body as evidence of American involvement in the massacre. This attack shocks and enrages the Russian government and populace and provokes international condemnation of America. Unbeknown to both Allan and Makarov, this was Gen. Shepard's intention all along.
* August 13th; Task Force 141, while examining evidence of the massacre, identifies a connection to Brazilian arms smuggler Alejandro Rojas and deploys to Brazil to capture him. Despite opposition from a Brazilian militia gang, 141 extracts information from Rojas about an important P.O.W. held in a Siberian gulag and exfiltrates with the assistance of Nikolai.
** Later that same day and by exploiting the compromised IFF system to deceive NORAD, Russia launches a surprise airborne invasion of the eastern seaboard of the United States, paradropping thousands of men and hundreds of tons of hardware all along the eastern coast. Pvt. James Ramirez, alongside Cpl. Dunn and Sgt. Foley, is among the American troops scrambling to resist the invasion and evacuate civilians in the North Virginian region.
* August 14th; Task Force 141 assaults and captures a Siberian oil ring being used as a SAM site by the Russian military. With the airspace open, 141 launches a surprise attack on the remote Siberian gulag and rescues the P.O.W, who is revealed to be John Price. Price is integrated into Task Force 141, but remains distrustful of Gen. Shepard.
** Mere hours after being liberated from the Gulag, Price and 141 infiltrate and assault a covert Russian submarine port where a docked sub is armed with nuclear missiles. Wile the rest of 141 holds off the guards, Price boards the sub and hijacks the launch systems to fire a single missile towards the United States...
** At the same time Pvt. Ramirez is involved in heavy urban fighting in the capitol of Washington D.C., capturing the Dept. of Commerce building from occupying Russians during a desperate evacuation. Price's nuke detonates in the atmosphere above the eastern seaboard, causing relatively minimal destruction [[note]] for a nuke... [[/note]] but releasing an EMP wave that disables all electronic systems in the warzone, nullifying most of the hardware, air support and vehicles of the invasion force [[note]] The defenders' hardware is just as affected, but most of it is still deploying or being activated [[/note]]. The now-equalized American defenders are able to retake several important buildings during the reprove - enough to avert a planned Hammerdown strike on the capitol area.
** General Shepard exploits Price's insubordination to acquire a substantial increase in budget and resources from the American government, intending to reinforce his black-ops unit Shadow Company.
* August 15th; Task Force 141 is deployed in it's entirety to assault two separate locations simultaneously in an attempt to capture Makarov. Both operations are successful, despite the absence of Makarov, but 141 is betrayed by Gen. Shepard and most of it's members, including Ghost and Roach, are killed. Price and Soap manage to escape to the Loyalist resistance after being caught in fighting between Shadow Company and Makarov's troops. Price, having deduced that Makarov and Shepard where working together, convinces Makarov to betray the location of Shepard's primary HQ. Makarov, seeing an opportunity to dispose of two problems at once, agrees.
* August 16th; Price and Soap, having been declared terrorists and war criminals by Shepard, undertake a two-man infiltration and assault of Shepard's mountain-cave base Site Hotel Bravo in Afghanistan, eventually flushing Shepard out into a nearby river and pursuing him by boat. After managing to bring down Shepard's escape helicopter, Price and Soap engage him in hand-to-hand combat; both are near-mortally wounded but Shepard is killed and Nikolai is able to extract them from the site.
* August 17th; A badly-wounded Soap is medivaced to a Loyalist safehouse in Himachal Pradesh, India. There, he and Price meet Yuri but Soaps' treatment is cut short when an Ultranationalist Spetsnaz team assaults the remote village and forces the Loyalists to evacuate.
** On the same day, Delta Force Team Metal, comprised of operatives Frost, Sandman, Grinch, and Truck, is deployed to the New York warzone to destroy a critical communications jammer atop the Stock Exchange building. Taking advantage of the resultant confusion, Team Metal is assigned to the capture of a Russian command sub and uses the sub's cruise missile battery to inflict heavy losses on the Russian Navy. This defeat effectively ends the Russian invasion of America.
* October 3rd; Having withdrawn from the invasion of the USA, the moderates within the Russian government call for a peace conference with America and President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter Alena travel to Hamburg to facilitate this. Incensed by this, and Vorshevsky's refusal to authorize the use of nuclear weapons, Makarov and his Ultranationalist allies hijack and crash the Presidents' transport, kill most of his security detail and take him hostage - although, crucially, Alena manages to get away.
* October 5th; The still-disavowed Task Force 141, joined by Yuri and a mostly-healed Soap, uncover evidence of unidentified cargo being shipped by Makarov through Imperi, Sierra Leone and infiltrate a small village believed to be holding a shipment. Stiff resistance from a local militia prevents 141 from reaching the shipment in time but they are able to determine the shipment's location: London. Price calls in a favor and passes this information on to Commander "Baseplate" Macmillan.
* October 6th; Acting on Prices' information, an SAS assault team undertakes a dawn raid on a Canary Wharf warehouse in London secretly held by Ultranationalist special forces. Although the team is able to prevent some of the cargo from being distributed, the rest - revealed to be deadly chemical weapons - is detonated at several locations around London. This coincides with similar detonations in other European cities which are subsequently followed up upon by a massive Russian invasion of Europe.
** To counter this invasion, advanced US forces are deployed to several hot spots across Europe; Team Metal is deployed via a beach assault into Hamburg, Germany to rescue the American vice-president from occupying Russian forces.
* October 8th; Task Force 141, with support form the Loyalists, assaults a pirate fortress in Bosaso, Somalia and interrogates and executes the local warlord Waraabe for information on the supply of nerve agents to Makarov. Waraabe's information points to one Viktor "Volk" Khristenko as being the main orchestra tor of the chemical attack and locates him in Paris.
* October 9th; Team Metal is deployed to Paris amidst heavy fighting to capture Volk with the assistance of local GIGN forces. A heavy Russian presence also calls upon the use of an AC-130 to extract the team successfully. The Eiffel Tower is destroyed in the fighting.
* October 10th; Task Force 141 infiltrates an occupied Prague, acting on information extracted from Volk in an attempt to assassinate Makarov. Although Makarov is actually present this time, he is able to capture and kill Kamarov and mortally wound Soap, but not before revealing that he has a past association with Yuri. After Soap succumbs to his wounds, a furious Price interrogates Yuri about his past with Makarov, although he relents upon hearing the circumstances surrounding Yuri's betrayal. Yuri is also able to provide information about a covert Ultranationalist base in the Czech Republic.
* October 12th; Price and Yuri infiltrate the Ultranationalist stronghold and uncovers vital information about the location of Alena Vorshevsky and Makarov's intent to use her as a means to coerce Boris Vorshevsky into giving up the Russian nuclear codes. Price and Yuri are discovered an manage to escape, causing significant damage to the stronghold in the process.
* October 13th; Team Metal is deployed to Berlin to try to rescue Alena before Ultranationalist troops can capture her. Despite support from Bundeswehr tanks the operation is severely hampered when an entire building is dropped on the assault force and Alena is just barely captured.
* October 14th; After tracking Alena to a Siberian ex-diamond mine/gulag, a combines newly-avowed Task Force 141 and Team Metal (sans Frost) force assault the facility to rescue both the Vorshevskies present on site. Heavy fighting eventually sees the rescue of both P.O.W.s but not before Team metal makes a LastStand to cover the exfiltration. President Vorshevsky immediately orders the withdrawal of all Russian forces from Europe and peace talks begin immediately.

!!2017

* January 21st; Task Force 141 finally locates Makarov inside a Dubai hotel and Price and Yuri launch a two-man Juggernaut assault to kill him once and for all. The operation is successful, despite the death of Yuri, and the Ultranationalist extremist leader is hung to death from a helicopter zip line.

!!2054

The warfare of the world of 2054 has been marked by the development of a variety of exoskeleton- and drone-based battlefield systems that have simultaneously elevated and yet diminished the militaries of the world; these cutting-edge systems are often the deciding factor on the battlefield but are too complicated and difficult for most nations to easily manufacture. This has lead to the rise of exoskeleton-armed PrivateMilitaryContractors who hire out their small-but-elite military forces to nations at a fraction of the development price. The largest of these is the Atlas Corporation, still headed by it's founder Jonathan Irons.\\\

The increasing discrepancy between the tech-haves and have-nots has lead to the formation of an anti-tech terrorist group known as the KVA.\\\

* July 10th; Pvts. Jack Mitchell and Will Irons - estranged son of Atlas CEO Jonathan Irons - despite only enlisting within the USMC six months previously are deployed into Seoul under the command of Sgt. Cormack during a North Korean offensive. Tasked with supporting a demolition team in the destruction of a North Korean mobile artillery piece, the loss of the demolition team forces Pvts. Mitchell and Irons to attempt the demolition themselves - they are successful, but Irons is killed and Mitcel is maimed, losing his left arm, in the process. The North Koreans are successfully repulsed, but at the cost of over 6'000 US lives.
* July 24th; Will Irons is buried in a Virginian cemetery, leading to an encounter between Jonathan Irons and the medically-discharged Jack Mitchell. Irons takes a liking to Mitchell and offers him a place at Atlas, complete with top-of-the-line prosthetic arm.

!!2055

Mitchell joins Atlas as an exosuit operator alongside operatives Gideon and Ilona. Despite some teething problems with his new prosthetic arm he quickly becomes a competent operator and maintains a close relationship with Irons, who seems to be treating him as a surrogate son.

* March 7h; KVA terrorists attack a Technologist conference in the Nigerian city of Lagos and take several hostages. Mitchell's operator team is contracted in to rescue the hostages, including the prime minister, and eventually tracks down the last hostage - a central Tech Specialist - amidst heavy downtown traffic. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the Specialist reveals information about upcoming KVA plans to Irons, who secretly murders him, seeking to exploit the KVA's actions.
* April 28th; The KVA launches a co-ordinated terrorist attack worldwide, targeting every major nuclear power facility in an attempt to force the world back to a lower-tech age. Mitchell's operator team is deployed to one nuclear facility near Seattle, but is unable to stop the attack and ordered to withdraw at the last minute.

!!2059

The destruction of so many nuclear power facilities causes widespread economic collapse and political instability across the world. Worse, large amounts of radiation released by the destroyed reactors has contaminated and forced the evacuation of a number of cities around the globe. Atlas seized on the events of the attack to expand into resource distribution and humanitarian support, massively expanding it's political and economic power and influence. Now a true MegaCorp and approaching independent nation status, Atlas even technically qualifies as the most powerful military on the planet, with it's high-tech military being hugely expanded.\\\

* August 5th; Mitchell's operator team is deployed to the irradiated ruins of Detroit to hunt down and capture biological weapons expert Dr. Pierre Danois, KVA leader Hades's second in command. Dr. Danois supplies Atlas with critical information on Hades's planned movements, before being covertly assigned to Atlas's bioweapons division by Irons.
* September 13th; Atlas is tracked to the Greece coastal town of Santorini and Mitchell's operator team is deployed to assassinate him. Despite initially only killing Hades's body double, Mitchell and Ilona eventually catch up to Hades and kill him. Hades uses his last moments to pass a recording of Irons's discussion with the Tech Specialist to Ilona, who keeps it secret from Irons.
* November 9th; Ilona, who has managed to decrypt and verify Hades's intel as authentic, reveals this information to Mitchell and Gideon at the Atlas capital of New Baghdad. Irons attempts to have them apprehended by Atlas troops but Mitchell and Ilona manage to escape via the city's canals, where they are exfiltrated by now-Major Cormack and his task force Sentinel.

!!2060

* January 3rd; Sentinel, having inducted Mitchell and Ilona into its ranks, infiltrates Irons's private estate to uncover information about a covert military project codenamed MANTICORE. Discovering that Dr Danois is still alive, and working with Atlas, Sentinel manages to place a tracking beacon on an Atlas transport jet carrying samples of an unknown organic substance before they are discovered and forced to exfiltrate.
** The cargo jet is intercepted by a Sentinel force over the Darwin Glacier in Antarctica and brought down with it's cargo intact, but the Sentinel force is attacked by an Atlas Orbital Quick Response Force and all but overwhelmed. The last-minute betrayal of Atlas forces by operator Gideon, who defects to Sentinel, allows Sentinel to acquire samples of MANTICORE. Analysis of MANTICORE reveals it to be a programmable bio-weapon capable of being attuned to only target non-Atlas personnel. Worse, intel points towards an impending attack on the USA by Atlas.
* April 4th; The primary Atlas bioweapon production lab is identified in Bulgaria by Gideon and Sentinel infiltrates the facility and destroys the major MANTICORE storage tanks there, neutralizing most of Atlas's MANTICORE supplies. Information about Atlas's bioweapons program leaks to the public, causing Irons to give a speech to the UN declaring his intent to supersede the authority of the world's nations and install Atlas as the sole authority on Earth.
* June 15th; Recognizing that at Atlas attack on US naval assets is imminent, Sentinel deploys to San Francisco to oversee the safe extraction of the 3rd fleet from the San Francisco Bay. Their hunch is correct when an Atlas terrorist team destroys the Golden Gate Bridge right as the central carrier of the fleet is underneath it.
** Atlas follows up this ambush by using captured container ships to board the disabled carrier in an attempt to turn it's weapons onto the US naval elements escorting it. Sentinel is able to assist the carrier in repelling the boarders and turns the carriers weapons onto the improvised Atlas fleet, utterly destroying it.

!!2061

* January 8th; In an effort to end the all-but-declared war between Atlas and the rest of the world, the US military, inducing task force Sentinel, launches an airborne assault on New Baghdad to capture or kill Irons and force an end to the conflict. The assault meets heavy resistance but makes strong headway, forcing Irons to deploy MANTICORE within his own city. As ex-Atlas operatives, Mitchell, Gideon and Ilona are immune to the bioweapon and captured in the resulting chaos.
** Transported to a horrifying Atlas prison camp, Mitchell, Gideon and Ilona are reunited with Maj. Cormack just in time for him to be mortally wounded by Irons, who disables Mitchell's prosthetic arm. The four Sentinel operatives manage to fight their way out, commandeering several ASV suits in the process, but Cormack dies of his wounds just outside the camp.
** Still employing their ASV suits, Mitchell and Gideon launch a two-man assault on Atlas headwaters, destroying a MANTICORE missile in the process at the cost of their ASV suits. A still-wounded Mitchell and Gideon eventually encounter Irons near the top of the Atlas building and attempt to kill him. Despite the disabling of their exosuits, Mitchell manages to catch up to Irons and tackles him over the edge of the building during the struggle. Mitchell severs his own prosthetic arm to cut Irons loose to fall to his death before he is rescued by Gideon.

!!2187+

By the year 2187 Mankind has expanded out into the Solar system, colonizing Mars and establishing resource extraction sites across the system to support a resource-strained Earth. Space warfare functions in much the same way as modern navies; Frigates, Carriers and small Strike Craft are the standard.

30 years prior to the events of 2187, Mars was taken over via coup by the System Defense Front - a militaristic fascist state - and seceded from the Earth-based United Nations Space Alliance in a bloody series of conflicts named the "Secession Wars." The UNSA founded the Solar Associated Treaty Organization (SATO) to counter the SDF and the two sides settled into a state of cold war.

* May 6th; A UNSA black-site research lab on Europa is attacked by SDF forces under the command of Admiral Salen Kotch. Despite an emergency Special Combat Air Recon (SCAR) team being deployed to the site, SDF forces are able to extract data regarding SATO planet-based defenses and relay it to a sleeper cell active in the Swiss city of Geneva.
* May 7th+: SATO holds it's annual fleet parade over the city of Geneva. The parade turns to terror when Geneva's heavy anti-capital AATIS guns are hijacked and fire upon the SATO fleet, decimating it. Lt. Cdrs. Nick Reyes and Nora Salter, under the command of Admiral Fredrick Raines and supported by SATOMC [=SSgt.=] Usef Omar and experimental combat android P.O.F.C. [=E3N=] are caught up in the attack and manage to fight their way to the AATIS control tower, despite resistance from a surprise raiding force of SDF troops. They capture SDF sleeper agent Akeel Riah in the AATIS tower before being transferred to the SATO Carrier ''Retribution''.
** The Retribution joins the remainder of the SATO fleet in high orbit above Geneva to mop up the SDF fleet deploying troops into Geneva but, despite the destruction of the SDF fleet elements, the SATO fleet is all but annihilated when the SDF super-carrier ''Olympus Mons'' joins the battle. Although the ''Olympus Mons'' is forced to retreat, only the ''Retribution'' and ''Tigris'' survive the battle. Captain John Alder of the ''Retribution'' is killed in the fighting and Admiral Raines promotes Lt. Cdr. Reyes to Captain and gives him command of the ''Retribution''.
** ''Retribution'' and ''Tigris'' immediately deploy to Luna's orbit to counter a SDF attack on Luna's Gateway port. The attack is repulsed and it's supporting frigate destroyed, but not before [=E3N=] is able to acquire intel on SDF fleet positions across the Solar system.
** Using the information acquired by [=E3N=], the ''Retribution'' carries out a number of attacks, strikes and ambushes on SDF fleet assets across the Solar system;
*** ''Taken Dagger'' to rescue UNSA personnel captured in the Europa raid from a SDF frigate in Neptune's orbit.
*** ''Phoenix'' to steal a SDF prototype fighter from a carrier near Uranus.
*** ''D-Con'' to eliminate a SDF ship carrying chemical weapons in low orbit above Venus.
*** ''Deep Execute'' to assassinate SDF commanders at a gathering near Pluto.
*** ''Safe Harbor'' to prevent the SDF capture of a civilian space station above Earth.
*** ''Pure threat'' fighting off a SDF ambush in Jupiter's ice belt.
*** ''Grave Robber'' attacking a SDF salvage operation at Pluto's decommission yards.
*** ''Sudden Death'' to capitalize on damage done to SDF refueling infrastructure during operation ''Burn Water''.
*** ''Trace Kill'' eliminating an SDF fighter wing in retaliation for the destruction of the Vesta-3 mining base near the Sun.
* The ''Retribution'' is ordered by Admiral Raines to attack a SDF refueling outpost on Saturn's moon Titan. The assault is interrupted by the intervention of the ''Olympus Mons'' who drives off the ''Retribution''. The refueling outpost is ultimately destroyed.
* Cpt. Rayes leads a small strike team to the asteroid mining station Vesta-3 to determine the cause of the asteroid's now-failing orbit and to rescue survivors. Despite the presence of a large number of rogue mining robots, the strike force is able to rescue several survivors but [=SSgt=]. Omar is killed during the evacuation. Worse, upon returning from the mission, Cpt. Rayes is informed of the destruction of the ''Tigris'' with the loss of all hands.
* SATO identifies an implanted transponder inside their prisoner Riah and deciphers the message it's broadcasting. Concluding that Rias was intended to destroy the AATIS gun grid completely and die in the process, and hence that the transponder was a signal to the SDF fleet to trigger a full-scale invasion of Geneva. SATO decides to relocate Riah to the Geneva AATIS tower and disable his transponder, triggering a SDF invasion straight into the sights of the waiting AATIS guns. The ''Retribution'' is recalled to earth to support this operation, but the convoy carrying Riah is attacked by SDF holdouts and he manages to escape custody. Cpt. Rayes gives chase, but only catches up to Riah just as the AATIS guns are destroyed. Rias destroys his transponder, killing himself in the process, and the ''Olympus Mons'' arrives in the sky over Geneva.
** In a desperate attempt to delay the SDF invasion, and taking advantage of a quirk of in-atmosphere FTL jumps, the ''Retribution'' jumps into the Geneva airspace and disables the ''Olympus Mons'' with an EMP pulse. Seizing the initiative, Cpt. Rayes leads a small strike team into the super-carrier to capture it, killing Admiral Kotch in the process.
** Taking advantage of the confusion in the SDF leadership, Cpt. Rayes jumps the ''Olympus Mons'' and the ''Retribution'' to Mars and destroys a significant chunk of the SDF fleet guarding the Martian shipyard. An attempt to destroy the shipyard via ramming goes awry when the ''Retribution'' collides with the ''Mons'' and sends both ships spiraling to the surface of Mars.
** The survivors of the ''Retribution'' regroup and assault the space elevator connecting to the Martian shipyard. Almost all of the ''Retribution's'' crew is killed in the attack, but Cpt. Rayes, Lt. Cdr. Satler and [=E3N=] are able to lead a small strike force to traverse the elevator to the shipyard. Aboard the shipyard, Lt. Cdr. Salter and the rest of the strike force commandeer a SDF frigate while Cpt. Reyes and [=E3N=] sabotage the shipyard to ensure it's destruction. Only Lt. Cdr. Salter and 3 others make it back to SATO space.

!!Ghosts Universe

[[folder:Federation War: 2015+]]
!!2015

In an AlternateHistory to the events of ''Modern Warfare'' an unspecified conflict within the Middle East causes the destruction of the region's oil reserves and sends the modern world into an economic crisis. Several South American nations - most notably Venezuela - see their economies boom as they become the primary oil producers on the planet. This leads to the founding of "The Federation", a political, military and economic alliance that eventually comes to dominate the entirety of South America.\\\

In response to the changing economic circumstances the USA scales down it's conventional military forces and begins to construct ODIN; a network of [[KillSat kinetic-impact satellites.]] It also consolidates it's premier special forces troops into a single unit nicknamed "The Ghosts" under the command of Commander Gabrielle Rorke.\\\

* July 8th; In response to a ethnic cleansing of US-born citizens within Federation territory, the USA launches a hasty invasion of Caracas with the intention of killing Gen. Diego Almagro the military leader of the Federation. The Ghosts, including Capt. Elias Walker, are tasked with carrying out the assassination and succeed, but Cdr. Rorke is separated from his unit and believed KIA when the Guri Dam is breached during the fighting. Rorke is eventually captured by the Federation who subjects him to extensive mental and physical torture in order to break him and place him under their control.

!!2017

* [[AlternateHistory July 10th;]] The USA's ODIN sattelite network is infiltrated and attacked by Federation SpaceMarine troops who turn the weapons onto the United States causing massive damage and destruction to the USA's southern states. Some 27 million US citizens are killed and several cities outright destroyed, including San Diego, home of Capt. Elias Walker and his two sons David "Hesh" and Logan, who barely escape.

!!2027

The activation of ODIN wrought havoc upon the USA, especially her southern states, but the sheer geographic upheaval may have proven to be her salvation; a highly-cratered No Man's Land separated the USA from the Federation and slowed the advance of Federation troops enough for the US to construct a wall from Los Angeles through Las Vegas and Dallas and prevent a direct land invasion by Federation troops.\\\

Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh Walker have been recruited into the US Rangers and are stationed at the Los Angeles Wall.\\\

* June 6th; The city of Dallas is overrun by Federation troops after interrogation of civilian scavengers lead to the identification of weaknesses in the city's defenses. Concerned that a similar attack is aimed at Los Angeles, Capt. Walker reassigns his sons Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh from patrol duty and sends them into No-Man's Land to scout for Federation Activity.
* June 7th; Passing by their old home in San Diego, Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh identify a significant Federation force under the command of Rorke who has taken Ghost Sgt. Alex "Ajax" Johnson prisoner. Encountering a Ghost unit comprised of Sgt. Thomas Merrick and Sgt. Keegan Russ, Logan and Hesh join them in an assault on Greenway Park to rescue Sgt. Ajax. The assault is a success despite Sgt. Ajax succumbing to his wounds, but not before he names Rorke as his captor.
* June 8th; After a hasty return to Los Angeles, Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh fight against a dawn naval assault by the Federation. The attack is eventually repulsed, but not before the destruction of the local command center forces Capt. Walker to evacuate alongside his sons. Capt. Walker takes this moment to reveal himself as the Commander of the Ghosts and inducts his sons into the unit.
* June 15th; The Ghosts undertake a midnight infiltration of the Federation capital of Caracas to interrogate Federation science official Victor H. Ramos, who is believed to have information on the movements of Rorke. Rorke, having predicted the actions of the Ghosts, self-destructs Ramos's skyscraper before the Ghosts can extract much information from him, but his signal is tracked to the industrial hub of Freeport in the Gulf of Mexico's oil fields.
* June 16th; With support from an American AH-64 wing, the Ghosts assault Freeport and manage to capture an apparently unconcerned Rorke. Much of Freeport is destroyed in the process.
* June 17th; The extraction of Rorke from Federation territory is interrupted when the transport plane is intercepted and boarded by Federation special forces, who rescue Rorke and crash the transport plane in the process. Paradropping into the Yucatan peninsula, the Ghosts are eventually able to regroup and escape Federation patrols, witnessing the launch of a Federation rocket in the process.
* June 20th; Re-tasked to investigate the Federation rocket program, the Ghosts infiltrate a Federation command base in the Santa Cruz Andes before exfiltrating via submarine. [[note]] Yes, really [[/note]]
* June 25th; Using information obtained from the Santa Cruz base the Federation rocket program has been identified as operating out of a covert Brazilian weapons facility nicknamed "The Factory". In preparation for an upcoming attack on The Factory, and to destroy a significant part of the Federation surface fleet, the Ghosts launch a raid on a critical oil extraction rig in the Drake Passage, destroying it almost completely.
* June 27th; Somewhere along the coast of Brazil, the sole Federation ship defending The Factory is scuppered by the Ghosts using a sub-surface-fired torpedo.
** Taking advantage of the opening in the Federation's defenses, the Ghosts infiltrate The Factory and discover the secret of the Federation rocket program; an orbital [[KillSat kinetic-impact satellite system]] reverse-engineered from ODIN and codenamed LOKI. Realizing that this weapon has the potential to decisively shift the war in the Federation's favour, the Ghosts destroy the facility and retreat.
* June 28th; While regrouping at a Las Vegas safehouse, a section of the Ghosts are ambushed and captured by Rorke, who executes Capt. Walker in front of his sons before leaving the survivors in the hands of his troops. When the timely arrival of sniper fire from Sgt. Keegan creates an opportunity the rest of the Ghosts escape and fight their way out of the deserted city.
* July 5th; In an effort to prevent the activation of LOKI the USA gathers it's last remaining Carrier and as much military force as it can muster and launches a combine naval and armored assault on the Federation Orbital Control Center in the Chilean Atacama Desert while simultaneously deploying a strike force into orbit to seize control of LOKI.
** The Ghosts are preparing to be deployed by the carrier USS Liberator - the last active US carrier - when a strike force of Federation troops assaults the carrier to disrupt the invasion. The assault is repulsed and the Ghosts are dispatched to the OCC but a strike from LOKI destroys the carrier.
** The Ghosts, working in tandem with US armored assets, assault the OCC and manage to disable the early-warning systems defending LOKI. Identifying Rorke leaving the OCC via train, Lt. Hesh and Sgt. Loagn board the train and pursue him.
** In orbit above the Americas, US Strike force ICARUS assaults and captures LOKI from it's controlling Federation garrison and redirect the weapon to fire upon Federation military assets. At the request of Lt. Hesh a single strike is fired onto Rorke's position.
** Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh fight their way through Rorke's train and confront himin the control cabin, shooting him in the chest during the resultant scuffle. The LOKI strike hits just as Rorke gains the upper hand and derails the train into the Pacific Ocean. Leaving an apparently-dead Rorke under the wreckage Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh struggle ashore and briefly savor their victory. Rorke, who managed to survive somehow, attacks them and drags away Sgt. Logan to fates unknown...

!!WWII (Sledgehammer) Universe

!!Infinite Warfare Universe[[labelnote:*]]Developers have confirmed that all references to the events of the original ''Modern Warfare'' universe are merely EasterEggs rather than evidence of a SharedUniverse.[[/labelnote]]

* April 20th; Cdr. David Mason, M.C.P.O. Mike Harper and C.P.O. Javier Salazar infiltrate and assault a covert research facility in the Hkakabo Razi Mountains, Myanmar staffed by Cordis Die/Menendez PMC troops, where they discover evidence of advanced cyber warfare systems being developed around advanced Celerium chips.

* June 12th; SEAL Team Six covertly infiltrates the massive floating resort Colossus in the Cayman Islands to find a person known only as "Karma" who is believed to be targeted by the Menendez cartel. "Karma" turns out to be Chloe Lynch, an ex-Tacitus employee and expert in Celerium technology. [=ST6=] attempts to extract Lynch, but Lynch is captured by Menendez PMCs lead by Defalco and a running gunfight takes place. Lynch is either rescued by [=ST6=] or abducted by Defalco. A considerable number of civilian lives are lost and significant damage is done to Colossus during the fighting.

** Menendez is taken to the ''USS Barack Obama'', but before he can be interrogated C.P.O. Salazar betrays SEAL Team Six and Menendez escapes custody as a huge number of PMC troops board the ''Obama'' and attack the crew. Cdr. Mason fights his way through the ship as Menendez reveals his master stroke: a Cerium chip hidden in his glass eye containing a virus that subverts control of the entire American drone fleet. Menendez attempts to have Lynch killed - she will only survive if Farid is able to intervene at the cost of his own life - and flees via aircraft as Defranco is killed and Salazar surrenders, with Cdr. Mason in pursuit. The ''Obama'' suffers heavy damage in the fighting and will be lost with all hands unless it is rescued by the intervention of the Chinese drone fleet.
** The majority of the hijacked American drone fleet converges on the city of Los Angeles where President Bosworth and other G8 leaders are attempting to evacuate to the local high-security bunker amidst drone strikes and a large-scale attack by PMC troops. Cdr. Mason assists in the evacuation, even "borrowing" a FA38 fighter, and the President is evacuated to the bunker.

'''Note:''' Technically speaking, outside of the specific storylines of the ''Modern Warfare'' and ''Black Ops'' series's, each ''Call of Duty'' game is effectively self-contained and doesn't really influence or affect other games outside it's storyline. ''Ghosts, Advanced Warfare'' and ''Infinite Warfare'' are within their own continuity. ''Modern Warfare (2019)'' is an UltimateUniverse reboot of the original ''Modern Warfare'' storyline, and [[CanonWelding as of]] ''Black Ops Cold War'', [[SharedUniverse shares a universe]] with ''Black Ops''.

!!Modern Warfare (2019) and Black Ops Universe

* September 2nd; Sgt. James Doyle, crewman on a B-17 Flying Fortress, is shot down over Holland. He makes contact with a cell from the Dutch resistance lead by Maj. Gerald Ingram and assists them with the destruction of a nearby railway bridge.
* December 17th; Pvt. Vasili Koslov, in lieu of more formal training, is thrown into combat as part of the defense of Moscow.

* August 10th; Pvt. Martin undergoes training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia.

* August 17th; Pvt Millers is rescued by a squad containing Cpl. Roebuck and Sgt. Sullivan. He joins them in assaulting several Japanese positions on the island before escaping.

* September 18th; Pvt. Alexi Voronin is shipped into Stalingrad, where he plays an instrumental role in the re-capture of Red Square before fighting his way into the city.
* October 29th; Sgt. Davis, Pvt. Mcgregor and Capt. Price participate in a nighttime raid on a German supply depot in Northern Egypt before falling back to defend a nearby hamlet from a German counter-attack.
* November 3rd; As part of the ongoing Battle for El Alamein Pvt. Davis participates in an attack that breaks through German lines and captures a command post.
* November 6th; Pvt. Davis participates in the capture of the coastal town of El Daba.
* November 9th; Pvt. Voronin is dispatched via the sewers to assist in the capture and defense of Pavlov's House.
* December 2nd; Pvt. Koslov, now fighting in Stalingrad, participates in the destruction of an office building containing a German outpost.
* December 8th; Pvt. Koslov fights a hectic running battle to repair phone lines in the streets of Stalingrad before being redeployed to capture and defend the railway station.

* November 17th, 1963; Mason, Woods, Bowman and Russian defector Grigori Weaver infiltrate Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR and destroy a Soyuz-2 rocket being launched from the faucility. Weaver loses an eye to Lev Kravchenko in the process.

* Day 5; Imran Zakhaev, field commander for the Ultranationalists, is identified at an Ultranationalist base in Uzlovoy and a combined SAS, 1st Recon and Loyalist force attempts to capture him. Imran is eventually cornered atop an apartment building but commits suicide rather than be taken prisoner. An enraged Viktor issues an Ultimatium and promises massive retaliation.
* Day 6; Ultranationalist troops capture and occupy a nuclear-armed missile base [[note]] the game claims it's in the Altai mountains near Mongolia but the location presented is in the Caucus mountains [[/note]] and prepares to launch nuclear missiles at the American east coast. A combined SAS and 1st Recon force is deployed to capture the base, with renewed urgency as the Ultranationalists launch two missiles, and eventually succeeds after heavy fighting. The missiles are disabled and the base is destroyed, but during the escape almost the entire force is killed, including Gaz and Staff Sgt. Griggs, when Zakhaev arrives in a Hind gunship. Soap manages to kill Zakhaev before the survivors are rescued by Sgt. Kamarov.

* October 8th; Capt. John Price leads an attack on an Ultranationalist stronghold in the Ukrainian Karkonosze Mountains believed to ce occupied by Makarov. The operation is a failure and Price is captured.

The events of 2011 did not deescalate global tensions as hoped. The Russian Ultranationalist movement emerged from their leadership struggles as a more-moderate-but-politically-tenable political party that would take power with Boris Vorshevsky as President, resulting in a highly nationalistic shift in Russia's military. Most of the Ultranationalist insurrectionists split off under Vladimir Makarov and continued to undertake terrorist activity both domestically and globally. Non-Ultranationalist Russians are effectively forced underground with Sgt. Kamarov, Nikolai and eventually Yuri forming a Loyalist resistance movement.\\\

* August 12th; Pfc. Allen, who has been inserted into Makarov's inner circle by Shepard, is present for the Zakhaev International Airport Massacre where Makarov and his men gun down several hundred civilians despite heroic resistance from airport security and Moscow SWAT teams. Makarov escapes, but betrays and kills Pfc. Allen leaving his body as evidence of American involvement in the massacre. This attack shocks and enrages the Russian Government and populace and provokes international condemnation of America. Unbeknown to both Allan and Makarov, this was Gen. Shepards' intention all along.

** General Shepard exploits Price's insubordination to aquire a substantial increase in budget and resources from the American government, intending to reinforce his black-ops unit Shadow Company.
* August 15th; Task Force 141 is deployed in it's entirety to assault two separate locations simultaneously in an attempt to capture Makarov. Both operations are successful, despite the absence of Makarov, but 141 is betrayed by Gen. Shepard and most of it's members, including Ghost and Roach, are killed. Price and Soap manage to escape to the Loyalist resistance after being caught in fighting between Shadow Company and Makarovs' troops. Price, having deduced that Makarov and Shepard where working together, convinces Makarov to betray the location of Shepards' primary HQ. Makarov, seeing an opportunity to dispose of two problems at once, agrees.
* August 16th; Price and Soap, having been declared terrorists and war criminals by Shepard, undertake a two-man infiltration and assault of Shepards' mountain-cave base Site Hotel Bravo in Afghanistan, eventually flushing Shepard out into a nearby river and pursuing him by boat. After managing to bring down Shepards' escape helicopter Price and Soap engage him in hand-to-hand combat; both are near-mortally wounded but Shepard is killed and Nikolai is able to extract them from the site.

** On the same day, Delta Force Team Metal, comprised of operatives Frost, Sandman, Grinch and Truck, is deployed to the New York warzone to destroy a critical communications jammer atop the Stock Exchange building. Taking advantage of the resultant confusion, Team Metal is assigned to the capture of a Russian command sub and uses the sub's cruise missile battery to inflict heavy losses on the Russian Navy. This defeat effectively ends the Russian invasion of America.

* January 3rd; Sentinel, having inducted Mitchell and Ilona into it's ranks, infiltrates Irons's private estate to uncover information about a covert military project codenamed MANTICORE. Discovering that Dr Danois is still alive, and working with Atlas, Sentinel manages to place a tracking beacon on an Atlas transport jet carrying samples of an unknown organic substance before they are discovered and forced to exfiltrate.

30 years prior to the events of 2187, Mars was taken over via coup by the System Defense Front - a militaristic fascist state - and seceded from the Earth-based United Nations Space Alliance in a bloody series of conflicts named the "Secession Wars". The UNSA founded the Solar Associated Treaty Organization(SATO) to counter the SDF and the two sides settled into a state of cold war.

* December 26th; Cpl. Riley, serving alongside Sgt. Moody and Cpt. Foley during the Battle of the Bulge, runs a combat patrol into a major German attack and just barely manages to hold their position against German armor as the reinforcements arrive and relieve the Siege of Bastogne, ending the Battle of the Bulge.

* February 24th; The Battle of Kasserine Pass, the first major engagement between American and German forces, ends in a disaster for the Americans. Lt. Pierson loses a large number of his men in the battle, which gets him demoted and hardens his character severely.

** Pvts. Daniels, Zussman, Stiles, Aiello, Lt. Pierson and Sgt. Turner land at Omaha beach. Despite heavy resistance they are able to push inland and destroy some local artillery although Zussman is badly wounded in the fighting.

* November 14th; At the Hurtgen forest on the German-Belgium border, Pvt. Daniels & Co. are slowly preparing to attack Hill 493 when their routine combat patrol gets hit by German artillery, scattering the squad. Most of the squad regroups at a nearby lumber mill but Lt. Pearson rallies some men and launches a reckless attack on the Hill. Racing to reinforce Lt. Pierson, Pvt. Daniels & his squad manage to briefly push up onto Hill 493, but are driven back by a counter-attack from German Waffen-Schutzstaffel troops supported by a King Tiger. Sgt. Turner is killed when he tries to cover the retreat.

* December 25th; Newly-promoted Cpl. Daniels & his squad are chafing under the abrasive leadership of now-Sgt. Pierson as they repel a heavy attack on their lines during the Battle of the Bulge. They are briefly joined by African-American Cpl. Marcus Howard.
* December 26th; Cpl. Riley, serving alongside Sgt. Moody and Cpt. Foley during the Battle of the Bulge, runs a combat patrol into a major German attack and just barely manages to hold their position against German armor.

[[folder:World War 2 1939 - 1945]]

[[folder:Interwar Period 1946 - 2010]]

[[folder:Modern Era 2011 - 2019]]

!!2015

In an AlternateHistory to the events of ''Modern Warfare'' an unspecified conflict within the Middle East causes the destruction of the region's oil reserves and sends the modern world into an economic crisis. Several South American nations - most notably Venezuela - see their economies boom as they become the primary oil producers on the planet. This leads to the founding of "The Federation", a political, military and economic alliance that eventually comes to dominate the entirety of South America.\\\

In response to the changing economic circumstances the USA scales down it's conventional military forces and begins to construct ODIN; a network of [[KillSat kinetic-impact satellites.]] It also consolidates it's premier special forces troops into a single unit nicknamed "The Ghosts" under the command of Commander Gabrielle Rorke.\\\

* July 8th; In response to a ethnic cleansing of US-born citizens within Federation territory, the USA launches a hasty invasion of Caracas with the intention of killing Gen. Diego Almagro the military leader of the Federation. The Ghosts, including Capt. Elias Walker, are tasked with carrying out the assassination and succeed, but Cdr. Rorke is separated from his unit and believed KIA when the Guri Dam is breached during the fighting. Rorke is eventually captured by the Federation who subjects him to extensive mental and physical torture in order to break him and place him under their control.

* [[AlternateHistory July 10th;]] The USA's ODIN sattelite network is infiltrated and attacked by Federation SpaceMarine troops who turn the weapons onto the United States causing massive damage and destruction to the USA's southern states. Some 27 million US citizens are killed and several cities outright destroyed, including San Diego, home of Capt. Elias Walker and his two sons David "Hesh" and Logan, who barely escape.

[[folder:Post-modern Era 2020+]]

!!2027

The activation of ODIN wrought havoc upon the USA, especially her southern states, but the sheer geographic upheaval may have proven to be her salvation; a highly-cratered No Man's Land separated the USA from the Federation and slowed the advance of Federation troops enough for the US to construct a wall from Los Angeles through Las Vegas and Dallas and prevent a direct land invasion by Federation troops.\\\

Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh Walker have been recruited into the US Rangers and are stationed at the Los Angeles Wall.\\\

* June 6th; The city of Dallas is overrun by Federation troops after interrogation of civilian scavengers lead to the identification of weaknesses in the city's defenses. Concerned that a similar attack is aimed at Los Angeles, Capt. Walker reassigns his sons Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh from patrol duty and sends them into No-Man's Land to scout for Federation Activity.
* June 7th; Passing by their old home in San Diego, Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh identify a significant Federation force under the command of Rorke who has taken Ghost Sgt. Alex "Ajax" Johnson prisoner. Encountering a Ghost unit comprised of Sgt. Thomas Merrick and Sgt. Keegan Russ, Logan and Hesh join them in an assault on Greenway Park to rescue Sgt. Ajax. The assault is a success despite Sgt. Ajax succumbing to his wounds, but not before he names Rorke as his captor.
* June 8th; After a hasty return to Los Angeles, Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh fight against a dawn naval assault by the Federation. The attack is eventually repulsed, but not before the destruction of the local command center forces Capt. Walker to evacuate alongside his sons. Capt. Walker takes this moment to reveal himself as the Commander of the Ghosts and inducts his sons into the unit.
* June 15th; The Ghosts undertake a midnight infiltration of the Federation capital of Caracas to interrogate Federation science official Victor H. Ramos, who is believed to have information on the movements of Rorke. Rorke, having predicted the actions of the Ghosts, self-destructs Ramos's skyscraper before the Ghosts can extract much information from him, but his signal is tracked to the industrial hub of Freeport in the Gulf of Mexico's oil fields.
* June 16th; With support from an American AH-64 wing, the Ghosts assault Freeport and manage to capture an apparently unconcerned Rorke. Much of Freeport is destroyed in the process.
* June 17th; The extraction of Rorke from Federation territory is interrupted when the transport plane is intercepted and boarded by Federation special forces, who rescue Rorke and crash the transport plane in the process. Paradropping into the Yucatan peninsula, the Ghosts are eventually able to regroup and escape Federation patrols, witnessing the launch of a Federation rocket in the process.
* June 20th; Re-tasked to investigate the Federation rocket program, the Ghosts infiltrate a Federation command base in the Santa Cruz Andes before exfiltrating via submarine. [[note]] Yes, really [[/note]]
* June 25th; Using information obtained from the Santa Cruz base the Federation rocket program has been identified as operating out of a covert Brazilian weapons facility nicknamed "The Factory". In preparation for an upcoming attack on The Factory, and to destroy a significant part of the Federation surface fleet, the Ghosts launch a raid on a critical oil extraction rig in the Drake Passage, destroying it almost completely.
* June 27th; Somewhere along the coast of Brazil, the sole Federation ship defending The Factory is scuppered by the Ghosts using a sub-surface-fired torpedo.
** Taking advantage of the opening in the Federation's defenses, the Ghosts infiltrate The Factory and discover the secret of the Federation rocket program; an orbital [[KillSat kinetic-impact satellite system]] reverse-engineered from ODIN and codenamed LOKI. Realizing that this weapon has the potential to decisively shift the war in the Federation's favour, the Ghosts destroy the facility and retreat.
* June 28th; While regrouping at a Las Vegas safehouse, a section of the Ghosts are ambushed and captured by Rorke, who executes Capt. Walker in front of his sons before leaving the survivors in the hands of his troops. When the timely arrival of sniper fire from Sgt. Keegan creates an opportunity the rest of the Ghosts escape and fight their way out of the deserted city.
* July 5th; In an effort to prevent the activation of LOKI the USA gathers it's last remaining Carrier and as much military force as it can muster and launches a combine naval and armored assault on the Federation Orbital Control Center in the Chilean Atacama Desert while simultaneously deploying a strike force into orbit to seize control of LOKI.
** The Ghosts are preparing to be deployed by the carrier USS Liberator - the last active US carrier - when a strike force of Federation troops assaults the carrier to disrupt the invasion. The assault is repulsed and the Ghosts are dispatched to the OCC but a strike from LOKI destroys the carrier.
** The Ghosts, working in tandem with US armored assets, assault the OCC and manage to disable the early-warning systems defending LOKI. Identifying Rorke leaving the OCC via train, Lt. Hesh and Sgt. Loagn board the train and pursue him.
** In orbit above the Americas, US Strike force ICARUS assaults and captures LOKI from it's controlling Federation garrison and redirect the weapon to fire upon Federation military assets. At the request of Lt. Hesh a single strike is fired onto Rorke's position.
** Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh fight their way through Rorke's train and confront himin the control cabin, shooting him in the chest during the resultant scuffle. The LOKI strike hits just as Rorke gains the upper hand and derails the train into the Pacific Ocean. Leaving an apparently-dead Rorke under the wreckage Sgt. Logan and Lt. Hesh struggle ashore and briefly savor their victory. Rorke, who managed to survive somehow, attacks them and drags away Sgt. Logan to fates unknown...

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