Andy & Bryan's Militia Corps
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ABMC, officially the AB Militia Corps is a militia faction in the Sandbox Region of the game. Considered to be among the oldest groups in the game they have seen combat for over four years. Led by BlubberyOyster4 and S0mebody10.
History
Early Foundation
During the Second Summer War around August 5th, 2015 a small group would be founded by two brothers with the intent of making a name for themselves among the other developing nations at the time. Originally calling themselves "Andy and Bryan's Manufacturing Company," as this name reflected the group's early intentions.
Second Summer War
After a couple of weeks making weapons to export to smaller, lesser-known groups, the ABMC amassed a small militia which it used to aid the RFAI in it's Anti-Minge operations during the Second Summer War. At this point the ABMC changed it's name to "Andy and Bryan's Militia Corps," making its militia a primary goal and trading with other groups a secondary priority.
RFAI - ABMC War
After serving alongside the RFAI in “Operation Second Sun”, the group would accidentally involve itself in attempted coup of the RF leader, the RFAI promptly acted and declared war on December 13th, 2015 against a scrambling ABMC. After numerous failed attempts to fight back, the ABMC leadership would develop a laughable reputation that would forever scar the group. At this time, the ABMC experienced internal disputes that lead to a temporary split in the group, one sided backed by the RFAI and other that wished to keep fighting, not wanting their first war to be a loss. The splinter faction would carry-on under the name "Blubbery's Navy" and continue weapons development and even stockpile a limited supply of ACF equipment, although this stockpile would be neglected in favor of Wiremod and E2 based weapons as ACF hadn't become mainstream yet. BlubberyOyster4 would engage in a one-man mission to OmegaArena with the goal of attacking the RFAI leader Strayed with a new explosive E2 weapon called the "Spitfire Mk. 1", but the weapon would fail because it required the HL2 Pulse Rifle to work and OmegaArena had all of the HL2 weapons restricted. Realizing he was outnumbered and outgunned, BlubberyOyster4 would make a final stand against the RFAI forces amassing on the server until Strayed no-clipped into the building and offered a cease-fire. This cease-fire would be negotiated into a full peace agreement by the Republic of Manila whose leader ironically was the one who proposed the original RFAI coup that sparked the war, the ABMC and it's splinter faction would be reunited after agreeing to the terms.
UberHannover War
Following the end of RFAI-ABMC war, a faction calling itself UberHannover declared war on the CSUNC for supposed ideological differences. This marked one of the earliest wide scale hostile incursions into Sandbox from DarkRP and UberHannover's fighting strength was unknown. Seeing an opportunity to mend the rift between the ABMC and the faction community at large, BlubberyOyster4 made contact with the leader of UberHannover, supplying fake war plans, defective weaponry, and fully ascertaining their member count and ability so a full report could be made to the CSUNC and RFAI as a sign of good faith. This early attempt at espionage and Intel gathering was a cornerstone of ABMC's military restructuring and provided a much needed renewal of public relations.
UberHannover would be swiftly driven from the Meta after a series of no-show battles where CSUNC awaited their arrival, while according to ABMC intelligence, UberHannover forces would never appear as they were simply a role-playing group. Unironically instead of UberHannover troops, the CSUNC would encounter another outfit of German-themed soldiers belonging to New Germania, an unknown faction lead by Furher Elias Schild who was looking to settle a score with Kaiser Moltke of UberHannover.
Ares Union Riots and Scandal
After establishing more trade with New Germania for tanks as well as shared weapons development and improving relations with the RFAI, diplomats from the RFAI and the Ares Combat Command (ACC) would extend an invitation to the ABMC to join their alliance and security pact called the "Ares Union". ABMC would send troopers to the ACC's home server of Bill's Sandbox, but would discover the majority of the server was openly anti-faction despite the reassurances of the server owner who welcomed all factions. The days leading up to the next AU summit meeting was filled with anti-faction sentiments, though ABMC forces were spared most of it as Troopers were ordered to stand down and not reciprocate the hostility, which warranted much respect from server regulars. The situation would take a turn only a couple of days before the summit when the RFAI leader, Strayed approached ABMC with concerns about New Germania's established presence in the Meta and discussed at length war plans against the still unknown adversarial empire. While ABMC would agree to help the RFAI in a military operation to force New Germania off of the mutual RFAI-ABMC home server of Snyde.net, a Steam error would reveal a preemptively made war poster which alerted both New Germania as well as the delegates of the Ares Union. The president of the Ares Union and leader of the ACC, Mark, would charge ABMC for unauthorized used of Article 5 while anti-ABMC elements of the RFAI would deny all involvement and use ABMC as a scapegoat, a private kangaroo court would be held in an underground bunker hidden from public knowledge. Despite being the target of the war plans, Elias Schild defended the ABMC against the charges knowing that the RFAI would be more likely to be preparing for war against his empire, but because of a lack of evidence for RFAI's involvement and ABMC's still soured reputation, ABMC was charged for wrongfully invoking Article 5.
When the AU summit meeting was finally held, the first matter was a vote for ABMC to be immediately suspended from the Ares Union in which the notion would be immediately passed. BlubberyOyster4 would excuse himself from the summit hall expressing his feelings about the unfortunate outcome, but was allowed to roam the halls of the Ares Union offices in which he leisurely smashed out all the windows, he wouldn't be kicked from the private server until he crashed through the skylight of the summit hall which disrupted the meeting and caused panic amongst all the delegates in attendance. After being expelled from the AU, ABMC and NG would collaborate to investigate the practices of the Ares Union as well as their strict imposed restrictions on their member groups and their forced presence on Bill's Sandbox despite the outcry of the server populace. BlubberyOyster4 would encourage the most vocal personalities of the anti-faction sentiment to focus their protest and hostility directly towards the president of the Ares Union rather than the groups caught up in it's red tape, meanwhile Elias Schild talked to the leadership of multiple AU members about the myriad of impossible laws and expectations placed upon them. Within a matter of weeks, after key members left the union and focused protests against the AU president from both the server populace and dedicated resistance groups, the Ares Union was shut down and disbanded.
The Red Union crisis
For undisclosed reasons, an enigmatic and isolationist faction called The Red Union (TRU) declared war on FIDE, an RFAI ally. All attempts at communication and diplomacy failed and no discernible reason for the sudden hostilities could be ascertained, with this knowledge FIDE responded by putting their armed forces on full alert and readiness with the RFAI and other allies on standby should the need arise. The next morning the TRU forces retracted their declaration of war after BlubberyOyster4 forced the ABMC to intervene diplomatically and while unable to figure out their original intent was able to negotiate a cessation of hostilities at no cost to FIDE or the RFAI. The leadership and top commanders of FIDE were left astonished by the sudden peace agreement and ABMC's ability to negotiate it. The potential war ended before either side rallied their forces.
The Federation of New Poland Massacre and resulting skirmishes
The Federation of New Poland was a small fledgling group created by NotGpless and quickly agreed to be a CSUNC satellite state, this act of sudden expansion didn't sit well with Elias Schild of New Germania who sought to claim New Poland as a colony. A vote was made to settle the dispute of the two near-warring powers with the aim being to allow the group members of FNP to decide to stay with CSUNC or join NG as a imperial colony, however this vote would be flooded with fraudulent votes from New Germanian saboteurs and the CSUNC and FNP leadership would purge the FNP steam group. Elias Schild now enraged by this action declared this act as a massacre and pleaded with the ABMC, RFAI and the member states of the distant Genesis Force pact (GFOR) who made a monument of the massacre featuring the usernames of every user purged from the FNP steam group. The combined coalition planned a widespread assault on Dirtbox Warzone and a password protected CSUNC Training Server. The leaders of NG, ABMC and RFAI met on the NG private server "Neu Berlin" to coordinate their forces through steam messages while planning around a war table used in a vain attempt to dictate the coalition forces across the multiple server fronts. Once IZK forces joined in the defense of CSUNC, BlubberyOyster4 and [RFAI] Strayed abandoned their positions at the table to lead their forces on the frontlines with their forces despite the Elias' protests to stay. IZK up to this point was believed to be a small CSUNC proxy group but the battle proved otherwise as it became apparent that IZK had increased their number tenfold and beat back the combined forces of RFAI, NG and ABMC all while a CSUNC soldier was never seen in combat, reportedly it was a solid wave of Izakian soldiers. The second battle was an New Germanian led operation to invade the CSUNC training server and it was compromised of a small team of Elias Schild, BlubberyOyster4, and True Slav and MicroSchemov of GFOR however no CSUNC counterattack or defense ever came and instead the infiltration team was met with console messages from the server host asking why we'd even bother. The ABMC cut their losses with this effort as the battle was a constant stalemate between NG and CSUNC and ABMC's involvement wasn't sustainable.