Urgent Fury: Prisoner of War
By Jay Donovan
Posted - Sun August 5, 2007 6:00 PM CST

With the turbulence in Central America that most media outlets dubbed "Road to
Exile" spiraling out of any kind of manageable control, the disastrous effects are
beginning to pulse outwards to the surrounding populations. With the United States
completely closing off its borders to all immigration beginning last year, the
population began swelling in the Central Americas so badly that supplies ran out,
governments crumbled and the people were reduced to preying on their own neighbors
for food, fuel and materials. With an extremist survival group calling themselves
"La Muerte" controlling all of Central
America through one of the bloodiest civil wars the world has seen, many denizens of
those territories fled for their lives down south in the only direction they could
go, to the South Americas.

Initially, it was thought that the South American territories could sustain the
population influx with the vast amounts of rain forest found on the continent, but
soon the harsh reality that today's society had grasped too hard onto the modern
conveniences that made life "livable," and those who struck out on their own to
avoid the wastelands of Central America were now roving an undeveloped part of the
world, at the mercy of the rain forests, its wild life and, most deadly of all,
those people who despised the newcomers and their encroachment onto their lands. At
first, scare tactics were implemented with raids on fresh settlements that razed
crops, demolished makeshift housing and frightened an already petrified and lost
people. Having literally no where else to go, the immigrants endured the assaults
and continued to make do when and where they could. When these tactics were deemed
"unproductive" by the raiders, more extreme measures were taken.

Authorities started noticing more increasing reports of kidnappings in the areas
where the incoming people were settling. Indigenous military groups were bent on
scaring away those that were settling in hot spots for drug trafficking, criminal
and political asylums and black market tunnel ways and escape routes. In essence,
the incoming populations were bringing unwanted attention to areas that were
otherwise going unnoticed for decades. As the kidnappings increased, with the small
ransoms already too high a price for poor immigrants to pay and the alternative to
leaving in order to have loved ones returned not being a viable option either, the
people became emboldened and began to fight back the raiding parties. Groups
befriended parties, parties befriended tribes and tribes joined communities. They
began holding meetings in secret to plan and execute proper defensive maneuvers to
outsmart the raiders. Soon, the immigrants were as large as the established
military groups, and then they decided there was only one way to fight back the
raiding oppressors.

They finally stood their ground.

They began to kidnap their attackers.

They picked up their enemies guns.

And USED them.

Now, with governmental hold over the entire continent slowly slipping away, these
splintered military clans run rampant over all of South America. It was no longer
enough to simply kill those that would encroach on another's territory or kidnap
members of an opposing clan in return for their departure. No. The kidnappings
have become so large that military groups soon needed actual camps to keep all of
their prisoners in. They didn't kill their enemy at first. They punished them.
They broke them. They made their captives grow crops for them, cook for them, work
for them and, sometimes, tortured, raped and humiliated them. What were initially
territorial squabbles have now turned into an ugly war of continental proportions.
Bodies no longer fill mass graves. Bodies are now commodities. Leverage for one
military faction to use against others in hopes of inserting their will.

There have also been reports of mass killings within these prisoner camps. Two
months ago, an attack on a Last Cannon Brigade [LCB] PoW camp prompted the cornered
LCB operatives to set off the hidden charges all around the prisoner barracks,
killing over 176 prisoners from various opposing factions. That practice was
emulated all across the continent by other factions in hopes that would deter their
enemies from attempting rescue operations for captured comrades. It hasn't stopped
some.

With the vast expanse of the jungles of South America largely uncontrolled by the
weakening governments, these battles are going unchecked. Soon an outcome will
emerge, but before that outcome becomes clear, homes will be destroyed, lives will
be ended and, for some, much much worse.
The taking of enemy soldiers is no longer a new anomaly, it has become the standard
for the type of guerrilla warfare that now engulfs all of South America. With the
fracture of the United States years ago, the transcontinental wars that raged
between Asia and Africa and the freshly razed lands of Central America, the world is
now watching with focus and trepidation at what will unfold here in the emerald
jungles of South America.

YOUR clan can be one of the military factions looking to gain foothold and defeat
your neighboring enemies for control over the region. "Take no prisoners" is no
longer a war motto, but rather, a war cry for the inexperienced. True warriors are
no longer firing until their clips are empty. All of them stop short, saving the
very last bullet for themselves, for some say a vacation in hell is much more
comfortable than a trip to an enemy PoW camp. Prisoners are a sought after
commodity and one you will use to weaken and ultimately cripple your adversaries.
Do so quickly, otherwise your clan may succumb to that very same fate.

This is Urgent Fury 4: Prisoner of War.

Past Urgent Fury tours had shown adversaries fighting over the conquest of land.
Now, the fight is for the continued strength of your own clan.
Now, the fight could not be more PERSONAL.