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Estrellan Armed Forces (Earth-616)

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The Estrellan Armed Forces are the military forces protecting the South American country Federative Republic of Estrella. The Estrellan Armed Forces are made up of air forces, infantry and navy: Although Estrella is a landlocked country, it is within the Amazon River basin, which covers a lot of its terrain with water. Estrella borders Brazil, Colombia, Peru and San Diablo, being in good relatinoship with all of its neighbours.[3]

A General of the Estrellan Armed Forces.

A General of the Estrellan Armed Forces.

Multinational corporations controlled the Estrella government through bribes so that the former would control the local economy,[2] and through the government, they also controlled the Armed Forces.[1] At that point, the government wanted to industrialize the country, but were having trouble as the land was mostly marshy due to the Amazon River. The government turned to American Roxxon Oil Corporation to build a dam that would divert the Amazon River to get more dry land,[3] and chop part of the Amazon Jungle,[2] in the process destroying many villages.[3] This led to a guerrilla-based rebellion made up of members of local Indian communities, who waged a civil war against the government, especially because the dam would destroy their homes and their way of life. Armed with traditional weapons like rifles and explosives,[2] the resistance did their best to attack the building site trying to destroy the dam.[2][3] The government immediately resorted to the Armed Forces to protect the dam,[1][2] but even then the resistance was being more successful than they even know:[2] The workers and even the soldiers were afraid to work at the dam,[1] and the costs of the construction were multiplying after every attack, reaching figures that even Roxxon could barely consider.[2][3] An unnamed Estrellan General was in charge of the defense of the dam.[1][2]

Roxxon then resorted to its subsidiary divison for applied cybernetics, Cybertek,[1] to provide the Estrellan Armed Forces with state-of-the art weaponry with which they could destroy the rebellion.[4] Cybertek provided thirty-two Worker Ants, unammed construction devices with substantial military potential[2] to facilitate work and defend the construction[3] along with six hundred thirty-seven Estrellan soldiers armed with mortars and rifles, but lacking air support.[2] As this was still not enough, Roxxon resorted to Cybertek's cybernetic warrior Deathlok[1][3] which, per Cybertek head Harlan Ryker, should be able to track and obliterate the guerrillas.[3][1] Initial glitches with the use of human brain in the cyborg[5] led to Roxxon's board of directors becoming skeptic and pushing Cybertek to meet the deadlines for the Project: Estrella. The Cybertek scientists travelled to Estrella along with[1] Roxxon's Vice President of International Development Clayton Burr,[4] where they met with the Estrellan General who had leased the Deathlok product, before shooting Deathlok in a missile to destroy a rebel-aligned campment. Monitored by Cybertek, Deathlok massacred the enemy forces, except for a young girl, Emilia Verdugo, who even tried to protect herself with a submachine gun.[1] The violence jolted the pacifist nature of Michael Collins, whose brain had been unwillingly transplanted to the cyborg body. Collins temporarily took over the cyborg so that it would not kill the girl.[1][3][6][7] Burr convinced the General that the mission had been a success, but the Cybertek team had noticed the glitch and took Deathlok back to the United States for fine-tuning. Once there, however, Deathlok escaped[1][3] and international law enforcement agency SHIELD was involved[8][9] as they discovered the illegal arms sales to Estrella and wanted to pin it to Cybertek.[2]

Meanwhile, Cybertek assets remained in Estrella supporting the Armed Forces against the guerrillas[2] and, correctly foreseeing that Deathlok would go back to Estrella, Harlan Ryker improve the defenses of the dam[4] sending weapon designer Ben Jacobs to control the Cybertek weapons and provdiing the army with a command center with Mainframe Carrier wave for their coordination. Then Deathlok, controlled by Collins, returned to Estrella aiming to end Roxxon's operation there[2][3][8][9] as it was environmentally-damaging among its many other flaws.[2] Deathlok allied with the resistance forces of Joseph Verdugo,[3] coincidentially Emilia Verdugo's father,[2] to lead an attack to blow up the dam; Collins had discovered that, if the dam was destroyed, Roxxon would cut their losses and leave Estrella for good.[3][2] Thou some of Verdugo's forces were reluctant to trust Deathlok after his previous attack a few weeks ago, Verdugo agreed to Deathlok's plan.[2]

The defeat of the Estrellan Armed Forces.

The defeat of the Estrellan Armed Forces.

At night, Verdugo's forces attacked the dam, protected by the thirty-two Worker Ants and the six hundred and thirty-seven soldiers. The battle started when Deathlok blew a light source, and immediately the ants went into attack mode, flanking the counter-forces. Deathlok focused on fighting the Ants and, without the Ant support, Verdugo's men managed to push the Estrellan Army soldiers back to the dam. Verdugo noticed the importance of Deathlok's support and, when Deathlok was in trouble with an Ant, Verdugo personally went to help him, risking his own life but destroying the Ant and saving Deathlok. Deathlok then tracked the Army's wave signal to the command center, which was protected by the Ants. Deathlok then jammed the signal, took over the ants and used them to destroy the transmitter, throwing the Army forces into disarray. This allowed the resistance to capture them all after a few mop-up operations. Meanwhile, Deathlok raided the command center, capturing Jacobs and the Estrellan general. Deathlok then placed the ants in front of the dam and activated their self-destruct mode which, in combination with explosives, destroyed the dam and restored the river to its previous path.[2] This disaster caused the collapse of the Estrellan government, and made Roxxon abandon the Estrella dam project for good,[3][2] although Estrella had a stable government not long after that, with an ambassador in the United States.[10]

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Equipment

Traditional military equipment.[2]

Weapons

Traditional military weaponry including mortars and rifles.[2]

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