Rise of the Godking: A History of the Holy Islamic Empire

Author's Note: This is a rough overview of the history of the HIE. More in depth articles discussing each of these battles and conflicts will soon be found on this new wiki.

Unification Period (2001-2055)
On September 11, 2001, the terrorist group known as Al-Qaeda attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, setting out the next century of history for the US, and by extent the entire world as a whole. Immediately following the attacks, the United States launched invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, beginning the First Democratic War.

These wars in the Middle East and other forms of irrational spending extended the US national debt, and later caused it to collapse by the 2020's. With the decline of western nations, many countries of the Middle East found themselves in horrible financial slump, and no shortage in extremism and thirst for conflict. Without western nations to intervene and calm tensions between these nations, the Mideast fell into a complete civil war, as jacked up oil prices crashed every economy in the region, and destroyed all its infrastructure.

Then came the Godking, a man who claimed to descend from Muhammad himself, and sought to unite Islam and create a new caliphate through any means, rallying many followers to his cause. Within a relatively short period, the Godking managed to either win over or conquer massive swathes of territory. And with the distracted nations of the west too preoccupied with their own instability and economic slumps, the Godking ruled unopposed. Around that time, the Godking named his new Muslim state as the Holy Islamic Empire (HIE).

The Second Democratic War (2041-2042)
In 2041, Islamic radicals under funding of the HIE attempted to bring the Kingdom of Kuwait and Republic of Iraq under the Godking's jurisdiction and hold. The US, which had at this point began a road of recovery from the Depression, intervened in the conflict to preserve the rightful freedom of both nations. The Second Democratic War was ignited. What was thought to be an easy American victory quickly turned into a humiliating failure, as the US military was equipped with outdated weapons and was in no position for any kind of military conflict. Soon enough, the US was forced to abandon the nations it defended. Alone, Kuwait and Iraq easily fell to the HIE by early 2042, leaving the Republic of Israel as the last remaining nation of the Middle East free from the Holy Islamic Empire.

Pact of Hegemony (2040's-2050's)
Despite gaining many enemies in its conquests, the HIE signed the Pact of Hegemony, forming an airtight alliance Communist Federated Republics (CFR) and People's Republic of China (PRC).

In aligning itself itself with the PRC, the HIE was provided wealth and riches, as China poured trillions of dollars into building the HIE's infrastructure and military, one that was still impoverished and too heavily dependent on oil as its core industry.

It was also around this point that the HIE began killing off all non-Muslims living within their borders, in a series of vile acts that would soon be dubbed the Purge of the Unfaithful, as those considered "unfaithful" or "infidelic" towards Allah were massacred in secret.

War on the Horizon (2046)
A few years later, in 2046, Pakistan joined the HIE, and the Republic of India began mobilizing for the inevitable war to come. The HIE was in possession of nuclear weapons, and now inherited Pakistan's vendetta with India. India, Israel, the African Union (AU), and European Union (EU), could see writing on the wall, and grew terrified of war of the HIE, and recognized their growing influence on the world scale.

By 2055, the HIE comprised of many nations across North Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia:

- Afghanistan - Algeria

- Bahrain

- Chad

- Comoros

- Cyprus

- Djibouti

- Egypt

- Eritrea

- Ethiopia

- Iran

- Iraq

- Kuwait

- Lebanon

- Libya

- Mali

- Mauritania - Morocco

- Niger

- Oman

- Pakistan

- Palestine

- Qatar

- Saudi Arabia

- Somalia

- Sudan

- South Sudan

- Syria

- Tunisia

- Turkey

- United Arab Emirates

- Western Sahara

- Yemen

The Spark & Indian Front (2055)
In the summer of that, China set off the Spark that began the Third Human Civil War, or World War III, as it was called at the time with the invasion of Taiwan, a sudden move that resulted in the destruction of the entire US Pacific fleet. The HIE, respecting its alliance with China, immediately joined the Hegemony, and two days after the Fall of Taiwan began a joint invasion of India with China, capturing the capital city of New Delhi not long after. Despite Israel, the EU, and AU's common distaste for the HIE, and alignment with the US, all those nations declared neutrality in the conflict, all out of fear of HIE reprisal. Israel because it was entirely surrounded by the HIE from every side; the EU out of fear its massive Islamic populations, which had begun to violently revolt; and the AU because of its crippling poverty, instability, weak military and even bigger Islamic populations than the EU.

While those nations tried to ride out the war and keep peaceful relations with the HIE, the US and India backed alliance against the Hegemony (Allied Powers) quickly began collapsing, as the Allies were driven into retreat all around the planet.

Africa Campaign (2056-2057)
As the Indian Front fell into a long attrition, the HIE didn't take long before putting its ambitions south to the incredibly weak African Union. In late 2056, the HIE launched a massive invasion of the AU, pulling all 38 of its nations into the war. The sudden advance caused the majority of the AU's bordering states to surrender almost immediately, and the rest to fall without much of a fight, with Nigeria, one of the AU's largest nations, falling in a few weeks' time. The AU scrambled to prevent itself from undergoing complete collapse, organizing a defense in Rwanda's capital city of Kigali. The city was filled with refugees from top to bottom in the tens of millions, and much of the African army stationed there.

June of 2057: the Battle of Kigali began as a disjointed effort to stop the HIE, and ended in a failure for the AU; well over 40 million African soldiers and civilians were killed in what was practically a slaughter, causing the front in Africa to fall apart.

The DRC, another major AU nation, was rapidly fell into HIE hands. By September, everything north of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia was occupied by the HIE; all that spared the AU from being destroyed in 2057 was the HIE deciding to halt all offensives in Africa in favor of shifting their attention once more, this time to the Republic of Israel.

Fall of Israel (2058)
In seeing the stunning success of the HIE, Israel grew fearful and saw that it couldn't stay neutral forever, and that threats of nuclear attack would not hold back the Muslim thirst to see Israel gone. And in concluding that war with the HIE was inevitable, Israel asked for the assistance of the Allies, wondering if they could bolster its defenses. Israel was able extend its army to 2 million, thanks to help of Allied soldiers and EU volunteers, but that number was hardly comparable to the 75 million HIE soldiers built up around the border. The HIE began the invasion in mid 2058, taking the West Bank and south of Israel quite easily, throwing the IDF completely off guard. Despite the HIE's military being behind Israel in technology, the HIE made up through it shear size and manpower, as well as its use of the miracle drug KB-46, which is able to make people nearly impervious to pain and much more resilient to fatal injuries. Regardless of its horrific side effects that made the rest of the Hegemony and Allies object to using it, the HIE had nearly every one of its soldiers take it.

The IDF resisted Muslim expansion tooth and nail, and after a bloody battle in the city of Be'er Sheva, and a successful diversionary offensive into the west bank that lead them into HIE territory for a short time, Israel could see that its war was hopeless, and they soon planned an evacuation of the country. From the port of Haifa, 6 million Israeli civilians were exited on Allied and EU ships, while the IDF held out on the city's outskirts as long as possible.

The HIE finally overran them in time for the last ships to depart. But as the HIE declared victory, Israel had one last trick up its sleeve, launching every nuclear weapon it had at the HIE, killing millions of military personnel, and crippling the country for the next few years. Many Israelis left the country, but many were also left behind; ones left behind executed on mass.

The Holi Offensive
After two years of the HIE taking a backseat in the war, India launched the Holi Offensive in March of 2061, throwing the Hegemony off guard. New Delhi was recaptured in the ordeal, but India's campaign lost steam, soon causing the front in India to become entrenched. African Front: While this occurred, the HIE renewed its war with the African Union, capturing the weaker states of Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Botswana, leaving South Africa and Madagascar as the only powerful AU members. The invasion force was stopped along the South African border, and the HIE settled for another defensive war in preparation for the invasion of Europe.

After vanquishing most of European resistance, but with the front in Iberia stagnating, the HIE made one final offensive against the African Union, easily crushing Eswatini and Lesotho and delivering a near fatal blow at the Battle of Cape Town. The African Union was reduced to Madagascar and would not see action for a while.

Muslim Uprisings in Europe
While the EU tried to maintain neutrality in the war, violent revolts funded by the HIE sprang up all over Europe, turning entire cities into lawless lands. They went from simple protest to outright shootings in the streets. This year of uneasy tensions in Europe definitively weakened the EU and its future ability to fight.

The Death of Christianity
In June of 2062, the HIE entered into Europe through the southern Balkans and the island of Sicily. The Iberian peninsula was ignored as the naval presence in the port of Gibraltar and the fact that the HIE was already spread thin by wars in India and Africa.

Islamic hordes poured into Italy, resulting in a confrontation at Rome that killed the entirety of the Allied army defending it and the much of the Catholic leadership, stationed at the Vatican.

The EU was thrown off guard, and forced to abandon much of its territory to a defensive line that was formed in Germany, called the Hamburg Line. Unable to pass it, the Hegemony looked for a way to flank them.

Fall of the Hamburg Line
In August, the Hegemony diplomats met up with the president of France, organizing a deal where the HIE and CFR get safe passage through French territory in exchange for recognition of French sovereignty. France had betrayed the Allies and the Hegemony easily took over everything east of France except for Scandinavia. Its seven years of neutrality was all for nothing as within a few months, the EU was reduced to small pockets of resistance. From there, the front devolved into another bitter stalemate.

For the next few years, the war in Europe would see the CFR doing most of the fighting, while the HIE only saw limited involvement in the Battle of Britain and other campaigns. The HIE put most of its focus on Iberia, attempting to pass the Barcelona Line, but being unsuccessful, and kept from invading the south by heavy Allied naval presence in the Gibraltar Strait.

The Betrayal
Purely because of blatant intolerance, the religiously motivated HIE turned on the Hegemony, declaring a holy war against the godless CFR and China. In a betrayal no more shocking than Nazi Germany's invasion of the USSR during the Second World War, HIE hordes began overrunning CFR territories, adding the Hegemony to their long list of enemies, and taking them completely off guard in an unexpected twist. In seeing the Allies start to triumph over the Hegemony with major victories in Battle of New York and Battle of Britain, with China and CFR suffering massive casualties respectively, the HIE recognized their weakness and viewed that point as the best time to shift the war entirely, as both the Allies and Hegemony were at their breaking points. And so, on 1 December 2064, the HIE invaded the CFR held Poland and Ukraine, taking them by surprise and wiping them out with ease. Under the belief that Allah was on his side, the Godking was under the impression that their jihad was to be a for sure success.Weeks later, the US began Operation Angel's Fire, the liberation of Western America, still under Chinese and CFR occupation.

Along with betraying the Hegemony, the HIE back-stabbed neutral France by invading the unprepared nation from the south, smashing through every defense until Paris fell, and it capitulated. All of France was taken except for the Hegemony beaches in the north, which were heavily fortified and still resistant to the HIE hordes.

Endless Islamic hordes flooded into the CFR's occupied territories, then into the CFR itself, as they invaded from the south through both the Caucasus and Central Asia.

Battle of Switzerland
Switzerland, which had managed to keep its neutrality throughout the entire war up until this point, was the last neutral nation of World War III. But now, completely surrounding by the Holy Islamic Empire, the Muslim military saw it as the best time to invade the small nation. Despite Switzerland being filled to the brim with refugees drafted in the military, and dozens of fortifications set up on all sides, the HIE still invaded, ending the small nation's 250 year neutrality streak.

The HIE absorbed heavy losses during the short campaign, punching through the Alps and blowing passed well built Swiss defenses. Swiss forces were vanquished within a few days in a shocking show of strength.



Operation Al-Mahi
As the majority of Europe fell to the might of the HIE, only a few substantial pockets from both the Allies and Hegemony remained free. In wanting to wipe out these last strongholds, the HIE turned its eyes to the weakest ones, mainly the CFR held parts of Denmark.

Swiftly, the HIE threw millions of soldiers at the dug in force. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, the CFR's presence in the northern island of Vendsyssel ceased to exist. The island of Funen fell next. The last CFR presence in Denmark was on the Danish island of Lolland. Surrounded on all side by the HIE and Scandinavian Allies, CFR forces on the island surrendered to the Scandinavian Allies, seeing it as the best of two horrible options.

When the HIE inevitably invaded Lolland, they were easily driven back by the combined forces of Allied and Hegemony troops, both finding a common enemy to temporarily forgive their differences over.

Operation Charlemagne (2066)
With the Allies regaining the initiative in the Americas, successfully pushes out the CFR and China from the United States and Mexico, as well as ending the Brazilian Civil War, and crushing Venezuela, with only Argentina remaining as a resistant Hegemony nation, and China still holding onto Hawaii, US and Latin forces quickly began shipping to Europe.

In preparation for the liberation of Europe, Allied bombers from airfields in England and Scandinavia bombarded the beaches with 80 thousand tons of bombs per hour.

June of 2066: the US, Latin American Allies and EU landed the first troops on the Hegemony occupied beaches of Northern France. Wave after wave of beach attacks result in horrendous casualties, while the Hegemony suffered little in the face of this due to a well planned defense, and the Allies underestimating the combat effectiveness of the forces preoccupied battling the HIE to the south. However, as the Hegemony forces were surrounded by two determined enemies, and currently facing constant onslaught from the north, along with the south, the HIE viewed a clear opportunity to wipe out the last major Hegemony pocket in Europe, and invades Northern France and the low countries.

This move gave both the Allies and HIE the initiative to push deeper. The Allies landed troops on Dunkirk and Calais, causing the entire front in France to collapse in on the Hegemony, and allowing the Allies and HIE to split up the territory. The Allies established a continuous line of beachheads, making the campaign a success for the Allies more than anybody else.

Not long after seizing the beachheads, the Allies moved south and liberated Beauvais from the HIE, only to discover the horrid sight of a completely depopulated city lined with desecrated corpses.

The Purge of the Unfaithful (2050-2071)
For decades, people dictated as "unfaithful" in the HIE were either condemned to a life of forced labor, or if not considered useful in that regardless, killed off for being an "infidel". With their betrayal of the Hegemony and attempted subjugation of all non-Muslims within their territories, the HIE decided it was best to take more drastic measures to quash dissent. During the early of years of the Jihad, the HIE successfully constructing the Road to Jerusalem, a street littered with the crucified bodies of Christians, Atheists, Jews, and Homosexuals, that stretched from Berlin, Germany to Jerusalem, Israel. Along with that, other barbaric methods of execution were adopted, such as decapitation and burning at the stake. Millions of infidels were murdered through these brutal means, and when the Allies discovered this by mid 2066, they vowed to destroy the HIE first.

Indonesian Civil War/Xinjiang Revolt (2066-2067)
The Godking called for the Muslims of the Xinjiang autonomous region of China, and pro-HIE radicals of Indonesia, Bangladesh and Malaysia to openly revolt against their Hegemony governments. HIE loyalists answered the call, and with Hegemony forces spread absolutely thin, the revolts provided a successful distraction, as predominantly Islamic cities across the Hegemony fell into chaos. The Hegemony's war effort in Australia, India and the Pacific was greatly hindered. China and Indonesia pulled out their forces to crush the insurrectionist Muslims. But with Indonesia mostly occupied battling Australia, its main islands fell to the rebels, one of which (Java), contained the capital of Jakarta. China was forced into an invasion of Indonesia. The attack eventually lost the Hegemony all their territory in Australia (since Australia had taken advantage of the distraction the HIE presented), and as reprisal for the invasion, both the Chinese and the Indonesian governments organized a systematic genocide of the rebel held islands once they were recaptured by early 2067, which was when the last major rebel bastion in Jakarta was crushed when China was forced into using the last of its tactical nukes to raze the heavily populated city.

Operation Chalo Delhi (2066-2067)
India, after finally pushing China out of most of its territory, began targeting the HIE, which still held the Indian capital city. With a force of 300 million, the Indian military pushed the HIE to the city, soon getting bogged down by brutal street fighting as fanatical resistance from both battled for every inch of ground and building that could be salvaged.

Meanwhile, the HIE massacred as many captured Hindus as possible.

Regardless of the HIE's efforts, however, the city would still fall by early 2067, and India would, not long after, find itself entering into HIE territory.

Battle of New Stalingrad (2067)
Seeing nothing but stalemate on most fronts, the HIE planned for a decisive victory against the CFR that could've shifted the tide of war and made recent Allied progress all for nothing. And seeing the isolated city of New Stalingrad, a city surrounded from east and west, the cultural center of the CFR, and where most of the CFR's military was dug out, the HIE could see that New Stalingrad would be easy pickings.

Over the course of many months, the HIE piled 400 million troops (4 times the CFR population) around the vital artery of a city, until in January, the battle began with a full scale invasion and the city as well as constant bombing raids that reduced New Stalingrad to rubble. The Red Army forces stationed in the city were outnumbered 50 to 1, but still bitterly resisted the endless HIE hordes of soldiers crashing down on them. And despite making extraordinary progress in isolating the city through the capture of Saratov, leaving the city completely encircled, the CFR still held strong, inflicting 10 million casualties on the invaders with the first hour of the battle, while the CFR only lost a few hundred thousand.

The weather also seemed to be on the side of the Red Army, as Central Asia had seen a historic blizzard begin just as the invasion was underway, killing HIE soldiers in the hundreds of millions within only a few months. The two stubborn enemies battled for control of the city, with the CFR refusing to surrender to a vastly superior enemy force, and the HIE refusing to retreat from the city, regardless of the horrid casualties suffered.

During the time that the battle was commencing, the Allies managed to liberate Paris, losing the majority of France's historical relics in the process, as the HIE intentionally set the city ablaze. A similar fate would be brought down upon Rome in Italy, but with the HIE setting off a nuclear weapon that practically wiped the city off the map.

Regardless of the heinous acts being committed in Western Europe, however, the Battle of New Stalingrad would go on to become the deadliest battle of the Third World War, killing a combined 200 million, more than the first two world wars put together. In the process, both the CFR and HIE suffered irreversible losses. The HIE lost much of its military and many resources that could've been spent on other fronts. And the CFR lost up to 65% of its military in the battle, crippling any future Hegemony war effort, and leaving the CFR a husk of its former, proud self.

The war for the HIE collapsed on all fronts by July, when the nightmarish battle finally ended. Seeing the HIE in such a state of weakness, the Allies and Hegemony signed a temporary ceasefire to focus on their one common enemy, leaving the HIE in a constellation of troubles.

The Green Death (2067-2070)
As the war turned against the HIE, the Godking, in an act of desperation, authorized his government to release the fearsome Hava Virus (or Green Death), a genetically altered and weaponized form of Ebola. They did so by infecting millions of Allied and Hegemony POWs and releasing them under the cover of performing an act of goodwill. The virus quickly spread like a charm, killing 1.5 billion people in less than three years. All advance in the war was halted as the entire world fell victim to its worse ever plague, one that nearly collapsed the Allied and Hegemony governments.

The disease was incredibly contagious and had a huge mortality rate, making quarantine impossible. But when it was discovered that the virus incubated in trees, humanity, in a sudden move, burned them down. Only the depopulated rainforests of Central Africa were spared from the scorched earth protocol, as they were territories of the HIE very thinly populated from years of genocide.

The horrible loss of human life and damage to the environment ran its course by 2070, allowing the Allies and Hegemony to finally renew their collective war effort. The HIE's final gamble to eradicate its enemies had failed.

The HIE's Final Stand (2070-2071)
The Allies and Hegemony, absolutely exhausted from the war, prepared themselves for a final push against the crippled, but still fanatically resistant HIE. They attacked the HIE from all sides, with the remnants of CFR army flooding into the Middle East from the north, and the Allies launching a full scale invasion of North Africa, along with campaigns from the east by both India and the remains of the AU (Madagascar).

The HIE, on several occasions, mainly at the Battle of Al-Nukhib, attempted to reinfect their enemies with the Green Death; however, all were fruitless in the end.

Operation Burndown
The CFR with assistance from the Chinese Hegemony invaded the HIE from the north, taking the city of Baghdad to fierce and fanatical resistance. Attempts to rerelease the HAVA Virus also failed at the Battle of Al-Nukhib, where slaves infected with the disease filled the city, killing eighty thousand people in the process. Despite this, the soldiers infected were properly contained and it spread no further.

Operation Torchlight
The Allies, meanwhile, invaded North Africa, crossing the Gibraltar Strait to little resistance and moving eastward in a surprisingly easy push that lost the HIE its entire Mediterranean coast.

Battle of Port Said
The Allies and HIE navies battled for the Egyptian city of Port Said, with the HIE navies being completely decimated, and a resulting capture of the city through amphibious assault. The HIE also lost the Suez Canal and the Allies pushed to take Israel.

Operation Sunscorched I
The CFR and China, having to take the majority of the casualties from the campaign, began bombing Middle Eastern cities with white phosphorous and other illegal substances to soften them up for invasion. The remains of the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) was then razed to the ground, resulting in a surrender.

Operation Kahina
From Madagascar, the remains of the AU with assistance from the Indian navy crossed the Mozambique Channel, landing on the African mainland with no resistance. Defenses were pathetic, with the Allies only finding the remains of the African people, a land complete depopulated, with cities turned into graveyards. It wasn't until they moved south to Occupied South Africa that HIE forts were discovered in Pretoria and Johannesburg, becoming bogged down.



Operation Sunscorched II
The Hegemony, tired of fighting in the Middle East implemented an extension of the previous operation not long after the brutal Battle of Medina. This time, they used the last their tactical nukes to bomb every major city in Arabia, wiping out much of the population off the face of the earth.

Operation Downfall
The rest of the Middle East was easy to capture by that point. It was split between India and the CFR, leaving only the city of Jerusalem and Qatar regions as the only HIE holdouts.

Operation Unholy Alliance
Jerusalem, the last city untouched in the Middle East, was invaded from all sides by the CFR and European Allies. As they slowly pushed into the city, it was discovered that the Godking himself was being held there in a bunker. After Allied and Hegemony Special Forces stormed it, the man's death was confirmed. Over the next weeks, the last of the HIE snipers and soldiers were killed and disposed of.

Battle of Qatar
Hearing news of the Godking's death, the leaderless HIE began to crumble. A small Indian force stormed the peninsula that was millions strong, securing a surrender in one day, and completing the subjugation of the Middle East.

Battle of Hopetown & the Last Defeat
Not long after the Fall of the Mideast, the HIE fell into completely disarray. In the small city of Hopetown, South Africa, Indian and Malagasy forces swiftly destroyed remaining HIE resistance in occupied South Africa without much of a battle taking place, as like in Qatar, Muslim forces were defeated in a day. The AU quickly swept through the rest of South Africa, reaching Cape Town.

Realizing that there was no hope of securing any kind of victory, the HIE unconditionally surrendered to the Allies and Hegemony, ending its Great Jihad, and its time as a country, in what could be considered national suicide.