In 2013, one year after the succession of Kim Jong-Il, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un reunites North and South Korea to form the Greater Korean Republic. The influence of China and the United States decline in the face of continued economic stagnation and a war between Iran and Saudi Arabia disrupting Middle Eastern oil supplies, while Europe is cut off by a Russian-Ukrainian "mutual interest" deal. As the United States withdraws overseas troops to deal with domestic instability, including the Texas secession debate and an outbreak of bird flu known as the Knoxville Cough, the Greater Korean Republic annexes Japan and several Southeast Asian countries. By 2022, the United States faces extreme economic turmoil and massive social unrest. Finally, in 2025, a satellite, launched under the cover of a program to replace the decaying Global Positioning System, detonates a high-altitude nuclear weapon resulting in an electromagnetic pulse over the continental United States. The destruction of above-ground electronics across the country is followed by Korean invasions of Hawaii and San Francisco, paratrooper deployments across the Midwest, and the irradiation of the Mississippi River to divide the United States, leaving the American military isolated and scattered.
Protagonist Robert Jacobs, a former Marine Corp combat helicopter pilot, is awakened in his make-shift house in Montrose, Colorado and ordered to a re-education camp in Alaska for failing to answer occupational military draft-notices. The bus carrying Jacobs to a detention facility in Montrose is ambushed by American resistance fighters Connor Morgan and Rianna. Jacobs is led to Oasis, a resistance hideout founded by local state patrolman Boone Karlson. Boone, Connor, and Rianna are aware of Jacobs's background as a pilot and recruit him to help recover fuel for the US military in San Francisco. Boone initiates the operation with himself, Jacobs, Connor, Rianna and Hopper, a Korean-American technical expert.
They plan to steal several tracking beacons in a school used as a labor exchange facility by contacting an "inside-man" named Arnie. However, Arnie betrays the team to in order to protect his children, forcing the team to kill the contact and eliminate all forces in the camp. They discover a mass grave and narrowly escape Korean reinforcements by hiding among the bodies. Shortly after Jacobs, Connor, and Rianna succeed in locating the trucks and planting a beacon on one of them, Connor and the team return to Oasis only to find that Boone and all of the inhabitants of the Resistance base have been discovered and killed by Korean troops. They narrowly escape with other Colorado resistance fighters by breaching the fortress wall used to keep people trapped in the town by destroying their own semi-autonomous attack vehicle named Goliath.
Jacobs, Connor, Rianna and Hopper are able to escape from Korean forces within Montrose with information that a useable helicopter is located in a survivalist encampment in Utah. The team infiltrates the camp and manages to steal the helicopter, pursuing the fuel convoy nearing Carson City, Nevada. With the convoy successfully hijacked and Jacobs providing air support, the team continues their trek to San Francisco where they deliver their jet fuel to aid the U.S. military in their attempt to liberate the besieged city.
As the guerillas and American forces close on San Francisco they succeed in taking most of the city via the Golden Gate Bridge despite encountering heavy Korean resistance and taking heavy casualties. Nearing the other side of the bridge, the team finds itself outnumbered when a large Korean convoy tries to push the combined Resistance/American forces back across the bay. Outnumbered and with little other choice, Connor advances towards the convoy with a flare and orders an air strike, sacrificing himself in the process to allow the remaining forces to proceed in taking the bridge back. The news of the operation is then reported by the British media, reports that American resistances fighters join U.S. military forces. The San Francisco offensive attack proves to be a turning point for American forces against the Korean occupation with the European Union calling for an emergency meeting to aid the Americans
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