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US Research Station ZEBRA, Teller, Alaska.
80 miles from Russia – the two countries face each other across the Bering Strait.
Only ZEBRA isn’t really a research station as such. It’s the home of a horrific cold war weapon.
The United States was a prime instigator of the Internet. It realised that the world wide web would develop and ultimately be used to control infrastructure; power stations, oil flow, water supplies, transport.
If you could control that, you could control the world. Knowing it would take 40-50 years for the Internet to pervade everybody’s lives, they created DARKSPIKE – a watcher program that could be used to spike the internet of specific target countries, leaving them in darkness. It would be the ultimate weapon, stopping conventional war, but rendering opponents literally, dead in the water.
Unfortunately, Russian advances in anti-virus software and pressure from US defence contractors who relied on the manufacture of bombs and bullets, stopped the funding and the project was shelved in the sixties. DARKSPIKE sat waiting, in a room at Zebra. The lights on the console occasionally flickering, like a sleeping heartbeat…
That is, until an ultra-right wing extremist group of influential Americans known as Cerberus decided to seize it.
You know the worst thing ?
Nobody noticed.
Seized is the wrong word. It was more infiltrated.
The phones still got answered, the right code words used.
Teller is a long way from anywhere.
Nobody noticed anything different.
However, something had changed.
The crazies had control. Cerberus had their long fingers around a doomsday weapon.
The other worst thing is that Cerberus now had AI – Artificial Intelligence – it’s 2025 not 1965 any longer.
DARKSPIKE with its cold war flaws + AI = DARKSPIKE 2.0 – an upgraded weapon that can think its way around any cyber security or online resistance. Cerberus have birthed a new superweapon.
Suddenly, Phoenix operatives started showing up at Teller.
This triggered algorithms on the computers of the watchers.
Then, the pagers of the Joint Task Force were sounding in the middle of the night.
Soon, all were on a converging course with OBLIVION
Operation Kraken will be an adrenaline fuelled weekend of tactics, asymmetrical warfare and role-play and is to be the twenty third game in this exciting Bad-To-The-Bone series.
Top and bottom in solid colours such as green/olive drab, grey, black or tan.
Casual style – cargo or tactical trousers with fleece, T-shirt or soft-shell jacket, all solid colours – no jeans.
Boots to be tactical – no trainers.
Headgear – baseball caps only – must be plain colour not camo.
Plate carriers, chest rigs or assault vests.
Weapons can be eastern bloc or western, but think military or law enforcement – no gold AK’s.