Quote: "I havea rough draft of the story, told by SF soldier Vincent Marbourough:
"November 17, 2015: I was sent on a mission to the town of Kola to hack into a server containing information on the second Cold War, World War 3. A few days later, I was wounded in Operation Lights Out. After being patched up by our medic, I flown back to the US. On my arrival, a CIA agent, a Robert A. Jasper, informed me of over 200 agents over in the town of Kola were brutally murdered. He said that I was to find out about the nuclear missles the Russians are currently loading to fly them into the White House, Capitol Hill, and the American Embassy in Moscow. He said that the Spetsnaz are currently assisting the Al-Qaeda's Russian mercenaries in setting up the bombs, in exchange for money and power over the entire peninsula. I am to discover the nukes, disarm them, and save the world from blowing into WWIII. But, intel gathered from Operation White Noise reveals that a suitcase bomb, codenamed Virus #911 (a reference to the horrific event on 9/11) is already planted near Washington, DC, and that if the nukes are disabled, then the bomb will be detonated. V911 and the Russians' operations must be stopped before numerous American diplomats and the government is extinct.
November 28, 2015: Thanksgiving Day. Midnight, I was flown from helicopter into Kola. My objective is to find the server I was to hack into eleven days ago, and destroy it. Then reach the helicopter for extraction. Readying my CQBR, I gambled that this solo war is gonna be a lot harder than I thought...""
That's pretty cool, I might provide some crit though. feel free to tell me to get lost.
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Cold War, World War 3"
The point of the Cold War is that no weapons were fire and no soldiers deployed. The cold war was over America and Russias ability to go to war, not actual fighting. I think that classing the Cold War and a potential WW3 in the same sentence is a bit iffy.
Quote: "Robert A. Jasper, informed me of over 200 agents over in the town of Kola were brutally murdered"
Robert A. Jasper informed me that over 200 agents were brutally massacred in the town of Kola. (just re-worded)
Quote: "He said that I was to find out about the nuclear missles the Russians are currently loading to fly them into the White House, Capitol Hill, and the American Embassy in Moscow."
It would be remarkably stupid for the Russians to fly a nuke into a building in their own capital city. As you may have seen on the news recently, the russians don't need nukes to make things very difficult for foriegn diplomats in their country.
Quote: "He said that the Spetsnaz are currently assisting the Al-Qaeda's Russian mercenaries in setting up the bombs, in exchange for money and power over the entire peninsula"
It's unclear about who is giving who power here, are the russians getting power from the terrorists? and why are the (governement funded) spetznaz assisting a global deplorable terrorist organisation?
It's an ok story, but I think that some of the core elements are a little unlikely. I notice that you're focussing on the idea of a Second Cold War. Meaning that your player will be some kind of espinage agent, as opposed to rambo.
Perhaps if you want a contemporary subject matter you would be better off setting the game in Iran, as opposed to Russia. Lets be honest, although the Russian Political system is a bit of a mess, and there's a fair amount of corruption going on, they are in no position to go starting a Nuclear war with the states. If you do want to do Russia, then why not leave Nukes out of it (they're getting pretty cliche). You could base it around Putin's political exiles - people who have bad mouthed the Prime in Russia, and ended up black listed. Perhaps one is an american citizen who has been kidnapped back to russia to pay for his statements, and you have to track him down?
If you really are determined to do the Nuke thing, something controvertial and contemporary would be Iran. They are one of the global nuclear powers, although they never admitted to the world community that they had WMDs until last year (pretty shocking).
The US's recent forays into iraq have been seen by some as a proxy war. A way to provoke Iran into military action that would sanction US retaliation against them, (and therefore remove Iran's nuclear capabilities). I know, I know, I'm farting on. But the whole Nukes and Russians story has been done to death. I'd be happy if I never had to M16 another Russian terrorist in the head. Maybe something new?
(sorry about the sketchy spelling, I spilled coffee on my keyboard and it's dying....slowly.)
