>The stick finds natural gas supplies in it's country >The US government secures new trade routes with the stick country >The new-found wealth is not evenly distributed amongst the population >Tension between the wealthy and poor in the stick society emerges >Some sticks, who feel that they have been taken advantage of, start to turn hostile >Civil war breaks out amongst the population >US Government sends 1000 marines in to help combat rebel groups >Locals are uneasy to the idea of foreign intervention >US Marines kill a stick wrongly accused of blowing up a cargo freighter >Hostility to US forces strengthens >Insurgency groups gain waves of support after stick murder >Support for Marines and government cripple, marines are now at war with the people they came to protect >US government authorises drone strikes on villages in the area >Aide of the leader to the main rebel group is killed during strike >US President appears on Aircraft carrier to give a speech with a banner behind him saying "Mission Accomplished" >President pulls out the remaining 452 marines >Stick government topples >Rebel forces establish new government >New government establishes new trade route with China >Gives valuable intel to Chinese government taken from a high-ranking marine POW >China uses this intel to plan out an effective invasion of the US >The 452 marines are found, captured and held prisoner for the rest of their lives