You know the general story of the campaign? Well this is my interpretation of it at any rate going off the official faction descriptions. Which are as follows:
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Decadess of economic and political turbulence across member states has left NATO weakened and facing a strategic paradigm shift.
With CSAT political and military influence dominating from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, NATO seeks to consolidate their diminished forces around traditional strongholds. As tensions continue to grow in the east, a US-led joint NATO-AAF peacekeeping force stationed on Stratis - Task Force Aegis - is in the middle of a staged drawdown.
The remaining units - a company of combat units, a helicopter squadron, and support staff are chiefly involved in dismantling military infrastructure and decommissioning vehicles in preparation of their final withdrawal, as the US shifts the focus of its conventional forces to the Pacific theatre.
Canton Strategic Alliance Treaty
Formed at the apex of the Canton Protocol summits, this strategic alliance of states is built upon the goals of mutual defense, expanded global influence, and sustained economic growth.
CSAT has risen in prominence over the last decade. Investment in shared civil and military technology and the aggressive pursuit of opportunities and partnerships throughout Asia, South America and North Africa has led to a sharp increase in strategic tension across the globe, as traditional spheres of power and influence are encroached upon.
Recently partnering with the government of The Republic of Altis and Stratis, joint civilian and military projects are supported by an independent mechanized brigade-sized force.
Altis Armed Forces
In the wake of civil war, the Jerusalem Cease Fire of 2030 mandated the creation of an armed defence force to secure the sovereign territory of The Republic of Altis and Stratis.
Although it officially operates under the observation and training of international peacekeepers, the force remains loyal to the new, hard-line Altis government and acts with de facto judicial and executive authority. However, it is debilitated by an inexperienced command structure and is blighted by widespread corruption.
Limited in scope, the battalion-sized force is weighed-down by on-going counter-insurgency operations on Altis and, recently, has reached-out to the international community for additional support including, among others, both the political and militarized wings of CSAT member states and associated private investment companies.
Freedom and Independance Army
Believed to be chiefly composed of former and defected members of the Altis Armed Forces, disparate fragments of opposition to the 2026 Kavala coup d’etat joined together in the grind of bloody civil war.
United in pursuit of the removal of the military-backed government and the rejection of external influence - despite recent setbacks - the FIA have begun to gain traction among the largely displaced population of the Republic and has found international support in the west.
Although the exact size of the FIA remains unknown - with evidence of cells operating across the entirety of Altis - they have remained a veritable thorn in the Pyrgos government’s side. As to the question of their namesake, rumours harken back to stories of resistance cells of the same name opposing Soviet occupation at the height of the Cold War.
My theory
What triggered the full scale invasion by CSAT at the end was something not many people seem to think about. Remember the strange devices? In my oppinion, they weren’t any sort of weapon. They were portable fusion reactors. Unless you’re a bit slow, you probably don’t realize the world is dwindling in natural resources and there is a serious energy crisis, especially around 2035. Fusion reactors can generate limitless power and this project, especially in it’s miniaturized form, has potentially ended the energy crisis and opened up vastly broader horizons in space travel.
It’s development is being carried out in secret by private research corporations. The public has no idea. If you chose to respond to James on the radio and investigate you will end up stealing the device and giving it to Miller, part of a shadowy spec ops team from the UK with unknown agendas. Miller is kind of an arsehole and you barely know anything about him so I can’t really disscern his loyalties. One thing is clear, He cares little about NATO forces, FIA or the AAF and is using them to further his agenda. By how CSAT executed the scientists after the technology was completed (If you go to investigate the domes in the escape mission) shows they absolutely do not want anything to leak. I believe that when you walk into the place CSAT black ops are removing the evidence.
Destabilizing the island, assaulting CSAT backed research facilities and obtaining the reactor. My theory is if you chose not to respond to James you have essentialy doomed Europe and the US and allowed CSAT to capitalize on their exclusive fusion technology to excert their influence over the entire world. Perhaps Miller’s goal was to get the device to European scientists to reverse-engineer it.
Now I predict there will be a CTRG dlc as well as a EUROFORCE dlc in the future.