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Raven's Rock Coup was a major conspiracy attempted by the Russian Ultranationalist group Raven's Rock in 2024.

With the intent of overthrowing the Russian government, Raven's Rock forces initiated a series of operations across the globe in an attempt to destabilize major regions, culminating in the temporary overthrow of the Russian government. However, Ghost Recon units caught wind of the conspiracy and intervened against the organization, ultimately playing a pivotal role in undermining and eventually eliminating the conspiracy.

History[]

Disaster in Nicaragua[]

Tipped off on a suspicious military convoy in Nicaragua heading north towards the United States, elements of US NORTHCOM expressed concern over the convoy's unknown cargo and destination. In response, the Joint Special Operations Command deploy the four-man Ghost Team PREDATOR into the country, tasking the squad with stopping and inspecting the cargo.

Upon insertion into the country, PREDATOR Team anticipated heavy resistance from the convoy's security personal, and opted to lay out an ambush alongside a remote mountain path. As the convoy unknowingly made their way to the ambush site, PREDATOR Team initiated their ambush and eliminated the convoy's drivers, resulting in chaos amongst the convoy with several vehicles overturning or suffering extensive damages. Utilizing their technological advantages, the Ghost team was able to make quick work of the convoy's surviving security detail before initiating inspections of the contents of the truck.

Upon boarding one of the cargo trucks, PREDATOR discovers several crates filled with nuclear warheads and immediately notifies Ghost Command regarding the developing situation. However, as the team was preparing to dismount the vehicle, Ghost team lead Ramirez's attention was caught by a sudden cellphone ring. Upon further investigation, the team realizes that the warhead was rigged to explode and quickly dismounts from the vehicle. Attempting to flee from the site, the Ghosts were too late, and were caught within the dirty bomb's blast radius with all operators dying within mere moments of one another. Ghost Commander Scott Mitchell, who had been viewing the situation via helmet cam, was left helpless and could only watch as his men were killed and he futilely scrambled a QRF. Despite their deaths, the team ultimately succeeded in their objectives, as the convoy was prevented from reaching the Mainland United States.

Tracking down the source[]

Shocked and angered at the senseless deaths of their comrades, Ghost Recon units were mobilized to investigate the nature of the convoy. Shortly after the retrieval of PREDATOR Team's bodies, US intelligence agencies were able to locate several of the arms dealers that had sent the convoy north. Amongst them were small-time Bolivian arms dealer Gabriel Paez. Having failed to accomplish his mission, Paez grew paranoid and quickly realized that his associates would seek to eliminate him for his failure. Seeking protection from his former allies, Paez quickly came into contact with agents from the CIA and agreed to provide information to the agencies in exchange for his protection. With this, HUNTER Team was quickly deployed to Bolivia to extract their HVT. Despite encountering heavy local cartel resistance, HUNTER was able to successfully extract Paez back to the mainland, whereupon interrogation, he quickly divulged that the convoy had merely been part of a larger shipment that originally came from Zambia.

Deploying into Zambia, Africa, HUNTER Team utilized their recently acquired optical camouflage to a large extent, allowing the team to covertly infiltrate the refugee camp that Angolan warlord and arms dealer Dede Macaba had taken control of. Upon discovering the arrival of a plane containing shipments of arms, the team quickly eliminated Macaba before making their way towards the airport in hopes of intercepting the plane. Shortly after bringing down the plane, the team was forced to hold off waves of Macaba's militia as a QRF was scrambled to their location. As the force arrived to reinforce and extract the Ghost team, HUNTER was able to secure the plane's black box, and delivered it to USAFRICOM, during which intelligence analysts attempted to decrypt the black box and locate the plane's original source.

As the analysts continued to decrypt the black box, HUNTER Team was redeployed to Nigeria at the request of the CIA, to locate and potentially extract one of its agents, Daniel Sykes who had been previously investigating the sudden destabilization in the Niger Delta region, and had attributed it to the presence of the private military company Watchgate. Having gone dark, the CIA requested assistance from Ghost Recon. Launching Operation: NOBLE TEMPEST, the team was initially able to infiltrate the village and extract information from several of the PMCs, discovering that Sykes was held captive in a nearby oil refinery. Discovering the large enemy contingent occupying the refinery, HUNTER was assisted by elements from the USS Wasp carrier group, with their help proving invaluable shortly after the attempted extraction of Sykes had gone awry. Nevertheless, HUNTER Team was able to extract the injured agent and extract from the region shortly after.

As Sykes was returned to Ramstein Air Base, Germany to recuperate, the grateful agent provided vast amounts of intelligence to Ghost Command, allowing them to track the source of the arms shipments from Bolivia, Zambia and Nigeria to an arms dealer in Peshwar, Pakistan. Working in conjunction with elements from the Pakistani Armed Forces, the team was able to locate and extract information from one of the arms dealer's associates, providing Ghost Command with the required information to track the location of the arms dealer; now known to the team as Katya Prugova, a former Russian intelligence agent and the arms dealer that had sold the bomb that killed PREDATOR. However, shortly after, the Pakistanis engaged the arms dealer prematurely, reneging on the deal they made with the Americans in hopes of capturing both the buyer and seller at the same time. Angered by their betrayal, HUNTER Team was ordered not to engage Pakistani forces, and proceeded to engage the local militia on foot, having been inserted by Blackhawk helicopter support. As the team fought their way to the seller's vehicle, they discovered that they had fled and rigged the vehicle to explode. Narrowly avoiding the fate of PREDATOR Team, HUNTER instead opted to chase the arms dealer via helicopter, as Prugova attempted to flee towards the Afghan-Pakistan border, however, quick thinking amongst the team narrowly prevented her escape as HUNTER was able to secure the arms dealer and return her to the United States for interrogation.

Upon interrogation, Prugova revealed the existence of Raven's Rock, an ultranationalist organization firmly rooted within Russia, composing of major political, economic and military individuals within the government. Divulging the location of a disused weather station in the Kola Peninsula, Prugova revealed that the group had been utilizing the station as a major weapons storage facility. In response, Ghost Recon launched Operation: SILENT TALON, deploying its experimental WARHOUND drone to assist HUNTER in their mission. Shortly after infiltrating the compound, HUNTER discovered that Raven's Rock was far more dangerous than realized, and had been developing top-grade military hardware, including a ballistic missile navigation system. Unwilling to allow such operations to continue, Ghost Command ordered HUNTER to destroy the compound entirely, before departing the scene as Raven's Rock reinforcements arrived at the site.

Caught off-guard by the sheer nature of Raven's Rock, US intelligence agencies scrambled to assess the nature of the group. Utilizing intelligence previously recovered during SILENT TALON, HUNTER Team was redeployed to the Oblast of Kaliningrad to intercept the sale of the navigation system at a military airport. Despite the team's best efforts, Raven's Rock forces became aware of their presence and the military aircraft transporting the navigation system attempted to depart the location, forcing HUNTER to detonate explosives on the aircraft and resulting in its crash, causing a major international incident.

Believing that the organization had been dealt a heavy blow, Western intelligence agencies were caught off-guard by the deployment of a nuclear missile towards London. Fortunately, the missile was intercepted by an American Anti-Ballistic Missile Shield just above the city, however, despite neutralizing the missile, the localized explosion caused sizeable amounts of damage and resulted in large civilian casualties.

Discovering Raven's Rock[]

A few hours later, Raven's takes everyone by surprise by launching a nuclear missile against London, but the missile was intercepted by the American Anti-Ballistic Missile Shield; however, the chaos and the damages inflicted on the City were significant. The missile's trajectory leads Hunter team to Dagestan in South Russia, where Georgian Spec-Ops Team Zamtari (under Sergeant Osadze's command) was reported missing. Hunter was able to make radio contact with Osadze, but he's captured by Russian forces. Hunter was able to free him, but on their way to the extraction point, the Ghost were ambushed by the Bodark, a Spetsnaz elite unit under Raven's Rock command.

Coup in Russia[]

While Hunter returns to base after the successful extraction of the Georgians, Raven's Rock launches its coup and manage to capture President Volodin; appointing Sergey Makhmudov as the new President of Russia and General Mikhail Bukharov as the Chief of the General Staff. The loyalists were able to mount a resistance, but they were scattered and disorganized. In order to secure their hold on the country, Raven's Rock has two major objectives: secure two oil refinery ships to prevent loyalists to supply their forces and eliminate the loyalist military leadership, namely:

  • General of the Army Yuri Kozlov, loyalist Chief of the General Staff, who could provide a unified loyalist command.
  • General Alexei Douka, who could reorganize loyalist forces on the field.

But Raven's Rock plans where thwarted by Hunter team, who manages to secure the ships, extract Kozlov and prevent ultranationalist forces to encircle Douka's forces. Furthermore, a lone Ghost operative was able to break President Volodin out of prison, providing the Loyalists with the political leadership and legitimacy they lacked. With a unified command, the Loyalists march to Moscow, whose people start manifesting against Raven's Rock. The ultranationalists plan to make their last stand by using snipers to assassinate Volodin (who was supposed to make a speech during the manifestation) to remove the political leadership and legitimacy of the Loyalists. However, the Ghost eliminate the snipers and assassinate General Bukharov, disorganizing ultranationalist command and ensuring Loyalists' victory.

Aftermath[]

While President Volodin was reestablishing a government and General Douka was hunting down the last ultranationalists resistance pockets, some members of Raven's Rock attempted to steal classified data from the Ministry of Defense, but were killed by the Ghosts, who managed to recover the data.

With Volodin's return to presidency, the remnants of Raven's Rock leadership agree on a last meeting before disappearing once for all. However, Hunter Team hears about this meeting and decide to use this last chance to eradicate Raven's Rock for good. They managed to kill six leaders before pursuing the last one, codenamed "Ace". However, despite being able to catch him and wound him, pinning him on a rail track, they were ordered not to touch him. But when a train conveniently arrive on the track, the Ghosts leave him to his fate, with the last leader killed by the train, effectively terminating Raven's Rock.

Protagonists[]

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Raven's Rock Raven's Rock[]

RUS Russian Loyalists[]


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