Talk:The Future: Eve of War/@comment-25588282-20160401114041

Republic of Australia

Government : The country continues fighting, but not at a fast rate of advance. This all changes on March 22, when terrorists bomb Sydney, killing scores of people. This launches an awakening in Australia, which militarizes to a maximum extent. Realizing how large of a threat the IS is, over a million soldiers are serving in the military. The country's main goal is now to defeat the IS, Nobody complains that much since everyone agrees IS is a threat. Since the governments of Indonesia, Paupa, and Australia, are working so closely together, they begin to merge in other ways too.

Military: Australia begins researching the Railgun IV. As the year begins, Australia seems unprepared to efficiently fight against the IS forces. Borneo is too heavily defended to attack and the IS forces in Java have set up good defenses against the advancing Australians. In January and early February, three individual offensives were launched but all ended with little to no success in the Javan Front. The first success comes on Febuary 22 (lol its my birthday) when General Crikey Cameron led the Australian Sixth and Twelfth army along with the Indonesian Third army to victory by occupying the port of Pekalongan City in north-central Java. This frees the north/central part of Java, but no further advances were able to be made for the rest of the month or early march. This all changes after the terrorist attacks on Sydney on March 22nd when Australia steps up its game and gets its act together, with public opinion and revenge fuel for the war machine. Australia realizes the only way to defeat the IS is to beat them at their own game. Unknown to other countries or anyone else in the world, Australia begins suicide missions of their own into IS held lands. People are sent to infiltrate IS targets, and while they are with other IS members or leaders, they start gunning down the other IS members or explode themselves and all the IS members around them. Due to this, IS has lost part of their advantage- no longer do their enemies fear death, they are now like them. Again, civilians and everyone else in the game, including the Indonesian government, does not know of this. Not even the citizens of either of these countries. All the people around the world hear is that there are pro-allies suicide bombers as well as pro-axis bombers, and the coalition does not claim responsibility. Attacks are stepped up on IS, and they start to fall back faster than ever before. On April third and sixth, The coalition forces retake the cities of Tegal City and Cilicap respectively. At the battle of Babakan and Cirebon City on April 10 and 11, Coalition forces squeak out a victory in the bloodiest battle of the war so far, with tens of thousands upon thousands killed. Following the battle of Cijulang on April 18, on April 20, All IS forces were announced routed from the Province of Central Java. As May approached, the gateway into West Java appeared. Yet, the month of May was riddled with economic problems for the Australians. As a result, the coalition advances a half of what it did on the previous month, capturing Tasilmalaya City and Kota Garut, but their offensive was halted there. Australia tries to advance into Bandung but is not successful and falls back to Kota Garut. Good news is finally received when it is found that an Australian terror attacker shoots several IS officers, including the head of IS operations in Java, on May 31. This discourages the IS somewhat, as they are falling on the Javanese front quite significantly. Yet, they still were sure of their stronghold in Burma. However, that was due to change.

As the sun rose on June 6, general Crikey Cameron watched as the shores of Java disappeared into the Horizon. A fleet of 26 ships, each named Zadar A-Z, sailed across the Java Sea towards southern Borneo. On board? A massive coalition army, ready to land on IS shores. Beachheads are established throughout the day, and the army consolidates their takings and start advancing. On June 13, the forces in Java finally break the IS lines set up in West Java, and on the 19th, the Australians decisively capture Bandung, the capital of West Java. IS falls back even quicker on the Javanese front, losing Bogor and Bekasi throughout the rest of the month Jakarta, however, remained strong. Meanwhile on June 25 Coalition forces take Banjarmasin City in southern Borneo. Serang City, the only other Javan city not yet liberated but Jakarta, falls on July 2. With almost all of the most populous area of Indonesia liberated, Bandung is proclaimed the previsionary capital of Indonesia and former citizens under the IS regime tell their stories. The standing army of the coalition June 1 was one million Australians, 500,000 Indonesians, and 250,000 from Australian vassal Paupa and foreign volunteers. By July 1, the Indonesian army became 750,000. Throughout the months of July and most of August, little action occurs on the battlefield, due to IS forces becoming even more desperate and crazed after their previous losses, and since Borneo is much less developed than Java. In this time interval, Coalition forces advance through and take the provinces of South Kalimantan and the southern half of Central Kalimantan. Three advances into Sumatra are also launched but they are barely successful, all they achieve is liberating the southern half of the province lampung.

Finally, after two months of siege, the IS garrison in Jakarta surrenders on August 25th.The world celebrates, and Indonesia promptly declares it their capital again. This prompts the Philippines to declare war on the IS on August 30. ((Tell me if this is acceptable, it looks like it would be since Jakarta has just fallen, showing that the allies are winning, plus it said in the NPC events the IS wanted to invade the Philippines). A sizable chunk from the former Javan front is sent to aid the Philippines, while the rest is sent to the Sumatran front. On September 4th and 6th, beachheads are established near the towns of Semporna and Sandakan. Throughout the month, coalition forces attack northern Borneo relentlessly. They link up late into the month and keep going south. The week of October 5-12th were significant because it had advances on all fronts. On October 16, forces in southern Sumatra broke the Lampung line of IS defense, and throughout the month the coalition occupied all of Lampung province. In southern Borneo, advances through October were slow to come but they happened. In northern Borneo, coalition forces suffered staggering losses in two areas, at Tawau and Kota Kinabalu on October 30 and November 5. By the 9th however, forces broke through those lines, taking those cities and advancing further. Tenon was taken November 12, and Sipitang was taken November 15. Yet, the forces were stopped at Lawas on the 20th. However, forces in southern Borneo were having more success. They had seized all of Central Kalimantan, and they took some of eastern Kalimantan. On the Sumatran front, Australian marines took the Banka Belitung islands on November 10 and captured Palembang city on the 22, and captured Bengkulu city on November 29. The forces suffer some defeats throughout December, yet by New Year's Eve the coalition has taken Bengkulu and South Sumatra province from the IS. In the Bornean fronts, the forces manage to link up in eastern Borneo, capturing that region. Meaning, by December 31, the only provinces the IS still holds in Borneo is West Kalimantan, Brunei, and Sarawak. The campaigns over the year have been largely successful members of Coalition nations rejoice.

Diplomacy: Australia does not focus much on diplomacy since of how much they are focusing on the war. The FSA and Australia continue fighting together and the Philippines and Thailand also work together. Australia continues seeking external help. Economy: Not much is to be said. The economy becomes heavily military based and people are encouraged to buy war bonds and to grow their own food.