United Nations Coup

The 2144 UN Secretary-General Elections were the most contentious in world history, with political dynasty frontman Guido Ghandi’s Order party losing to American Palestinian Mohammad Adams’ Progress Platform in a contested and divisive final counting. Guido refused to accept the results, but the induction process went on without his concession. Then, on April 15, as American WAVES arrived in the UN’s flying capital city of Atlantis for Adams’ swearing-in ceremony, Guido made his move.
    The Atlantian WAVE Divisions were loyal to Ghandi, and opened fire on Adams’ bodyguard and foreign diplomats as he took the oath of office. Adams was immediately jetpacked to safety by his personal guards, and American WAVE commander Katskiller informed Washington that UN WAVES were attacking her troops. Sam Matthews, American commander of a North Atlantic naval taskforce, immediately diverted course for Atlantis’ position. In a daring move, American WAVE Mary Adams, SecGen Mohammad’s sister, sabotaged Atlantis’ course software, causing the city to remain stationary long enough for American fleets to catch up and engage, though Adams fell into Ghandite custody afterwards.
    Unfortunately, Ghandite WAVES had taken control of Atlantian atomic artillery, and the combined naval, air, and ground battle raged for the next ten hours. It was one of the first combined environment battles in history, with naval reinforcements using jetpacks to reach the city thousands of miles above them, Atlantian aircraft engaging in air-to-surface combat with navy ships, and opposing forces often encountering each other in vertical transit and engaging each other mid-air. The fighting was often extremely brutal, with neither side allowing bailing aircraft pilots to parachute unmolested, and fights between enemy bailed-out pilots were documented. After hours of block-to-block fighting in the city itself, Ghandi’s WAVES secured most of Atlantis and were able to destroy Adams’ field HQ, killing Adams with it. American forces withdrew, but refused to recognize Ghandi as SecGen, and were followed by the Soviet Union, French Kingdom, and, eventually, thirty-two other nations. The war of the Unian succession had begun.