Ghost Ship Insurrection is the fifth scenario of the Asian Campaign in Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest.
Briefing[]
Xinhua Herald/UFAR Webcast -- February 2245
“It has been nearly 250 years since the first Mars colonies were founded, and these brave pioneers and workers have made much progress in making this new world their home. The most habitable territories on the Martian surface, those near the Polar Caps, have been well established and are now fully functional towns and cities, each with a stable economy and administrative body backed by differing political Earth-based government. These colonies:
Xin Tong King -- * established by the Republic of Japan Huo Xing Cheng -- * established by the UFAR government Baker’s Ridge -- * established by the United States/Canadian Conglomerate Port Chernobyl-- * established by the European Union of Nations
… along with five smaller mining communities, have caused quite a few headaches for their earth-based governing bodies, as the distance between Earth and Mars hampers decisive action in settling territorial disputes. Government appointed officials are too easily bribed and cajoled by the mining corporations and financial interests that have holdings on Mars.
However, the first rumblings of civil discontent have been heard in reaction to several new policies and injunctions that have recently been imposed by the Earth governors. Among these is the planned ‘Howard Johnson Reclamation Project *’ (which basically would force the Martian miners and workers out of there present housing neighborhoods and replace them with resort communities for the rich and famous) and the ‘UFAR Contracts and Holdings Act*’ (which has resulted in less governmental control of the mining corporations and has lowered wages and benefits packages and increased work loads and costs of goods). These outrageous measures combined with the fact that no ‘Martian’ has served or been elected to a government position, has led to meetings and marches protesting unfair treatment.
As you may well remember, this month marks the ten-year anniversary of the Baker's Ridge Protest Rally, which ended in violence when the government sent in police and military to break up the protesters and force the workers back to their jobs. Several hundred ‘Martians’ were either wounded or killed and the populations of the colony cities since that time have been dwindling as disgruntled workers have stolen or appropriated equipment and materials to start shanty communities on the fringes of the terra-formed areas of the established territories. These pockets of discontent have grown quite large over the last two decades throughout the nine established territories and protesting has turned to attacks and well coordinated paramilitary actions against this unfair treatment by the earth-based ruling body.
At the forefront of this rebellion a leader has risen: Khan Sun Do, a descendant of the great hero Hu Kwan Do, who has begun to give the workers not only a sense of solidarity but of nationality as well. The workers are no longer transplanted earthlings, but people born and bred on Martian soil. This has become the driving force in what the workers now see as a war of independence.
Can we here on Earth really afford to ignore the events happening so far away? How long before this war for independence becomes a battle for survival? If these discontents do win out against the colonial governments, how long will it be before they strike out against the originators of their oppression? How long before Earth will be invaded by the Martians?”
Objectives[]
In order to gain control of the Martian settlements and to assert their independence, you must engage in several major battles to give a significant show of force and convince the Martian city-colonies to join you in the fight for overall liberty from Earth.
° Starting with a limited amount of troops, secure a base of operations by capturing or subverting an existing Martian city-outpost. Then begin building up resources to build up an army to take on the three remaining UFAR colonies -- and either thru covert or military tactics, pull them into the war for independence.
° Research and construct a new military unit - the Cyber Mining Rover vehicle is a cheap, fast mini-tank or jeep that is devastating when used against infantry troops.
° Uncover the secret surrounding the new "Secret Weapon" that the Earth-based forces are developing and steal it for your own use.
° Khan Sun Do and Xinhua must survive.
° Khan Sun Do has been cut off from his followers. Guide the rebel leader to a secret meeting to discuss plans that could lead to a revolution. Using the old mining track might help you avoid enemy encounters.
° Bring Khan Sun Do up to the Mining Unit to capture it to your use.
° Khan Sun Do has been able to appropriate a Corporate Mining Unit. If you can guide the Mining Unit to your Capitol then the unit can be added to your build queue. If you lose the unit, then you will not be able to produce any more.
° Bring Khan Sun Do and Xinhua to the rendezvous with the Double Agent.
° Eliminate the troops that are harassing Settlement 19.
° Load Khan Sun Do, Xinhua and their followers onto the Transport and fly them to the Huo Xing Cheng Capitol Building.
° The Mining Unit has been added to your build queue. Congratulations!
° Defend your base from the raids and attacks of the other colonies.
° Establish a forward base at the abandoned mine to supplement your economy.
° Collect 4500 Gold to fund Xinhua's Cyber Ninja research project.
° You have the money to fund Xinhua's Cyber Ninja research. Click on the University to deliver the funds, and they will become available to build at the Barracks.
° Construct a Space Dock and begin amassing a fleet of Space Fighters and Cruisers.
° Use the new wormhole to transport ships. Ships should fly into the swirling mass of the wormhole and then appear somewhere on the map ... once you have figured out where the exit is, see if this can be used to help battle your enemies.
° This is the location of the Wormhole. Send ships through it to find the end-point, and then use this position to launch a surprise attack.
° Get Xinhua close to the Yamato Capital Ship. Be careful not to let your ships damage the craft, as it is unique and must be captured intact.
° Bring Xinhua to this zone in order to capture the Yamato Capital Ship.
Other Events[]
If the Mining Unit is safely brought to the U.F.A.R. Capitol, the following message will be displayed:
"° The Mining Unit has been added to your build queue. Congratulations!"
Every time diplomacy is successfully established with a hostile civilization, the following message will be displayed:
"° One of your former rivals is now an ally ... Congratulations!"
Once you have reached the proper amount of resources for the Cyber Ninja research, the following message will be displayed:
"° You have the money to fund Xinhua's Cyber Ninja research. Click on the University to deliver the funds, and they will become available to build at the Barracks."
Hints[]
° Survive long enough to regroup with your rebel followers.
° The cybers you construct may seem smaller in scale than those you initially have or encounter. This is due to the fact that the Martian production facilities are not of the same standard as the Earth-based production centers. The large cyber and military vehicles are quite obviously holdovers from when units were shipped to the planet rather than being actually constructed at the colonies themselves. Be wary of these larger units, as they quite possibly can do greater damage to your units and structures.
° You will not be able to construct towers to help defend your base. You must defend yourself with vehicles, cybers and your military expertise if you wish to survive and conqueror Mars.
° Remember, you must advance to the Space Epoch before Space Ships will become available at your Space Dock.
History[]
Nearly fifty years after the founding of the first Martian colonies, the Earth governments that had established them began to slowly turn the regulation and governing of these cities and mining towns over to the corporations and businesses that ran them. The reasons for this were numerous, the most prominent of these being the exorbitant cost of maintaining a constant flow of shuttles moving back and forth between Earth and Mars, which became increasingly hard for most of the governments to sustain. This along with renewed fighting between the nations of UFAR and Novaya Russia, which dragged most other countries into a prolonged military struggle, left little room for support of the Martian colonies.
By the 160th year of the founding of the Martian settlements, they were being run entirely by corporate rule -- citizen rights were at the bare minimum and profits were being funneled back to Earth or into the local corporation appointed governor's pockets, leaving little or none for those people actually working in the mines and factories. Death rates were extraordinarily high due to the slow development of terra-forming technologies and faulty mining equipment. The problems soon reached a boiling point and a demonstration was staged in the summer of 2235.
Now known as the Baker's Ridge incident, hundreds of 'Martian' workers were killed and hundreds more wounded in the fighting that broke out when a peaceful protest turned violent when corporate troops attempted to use force to remove the protesters from the steps of the capitol building where they had gathered. The fighting continued for several days afterward, and eventually the corporate governor appealed to Earth to send aid in helping to put down the growing rebellion.
Help from Earth was either denied or was too slow in coming and as a result the confrontation at Baker's Ridge soon became a rallying cry to the working class of the colonies and pockets of resistance began to crop up, staging destructive attacks on mine operations and upper class resort locations, eventually leading to several small skirmishes and one full scale conflict -- the Eos Chasma War.
Add to this the unnerving factor that the resources buried beneath the soil of Mars are not as abundant as were once thought, and the various colonies are now fighting for not just political survival, but economical survival as well.
And then there were the rumors, rumors that had surfaced among the colonies and the rebel factions of a new weapon that had been created, one that could spell doom for those opposing the Corporatists and their Earth allies. The rebellion suddenly found itself in its darkest hour, out manned and out gunned and threatened with a weapon of unknown origin and power. The next few days could make or break them ...
Trivia[]
- There's a unique enemy Cyber Ninja, located at the west outside of the Japan 23rd Century base.
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