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"There, right between those rocks and that cliff, keep the bus steady"
Ili Gilayil pointed out the abandoned dirt path to Jikila Ilan, who tilted the wheel carefully as she manouvered in the tight space, crouching with his legs swaying slightly from the effort. Over the last few weeks the leader of the Black Army had meticulously planned a breach on the abandoned Kgninjin nuclear missile site. This facility was secretely constructed two years prior under the supervision of scientists and engineers loyal to the national anarchist leader Okhge Jarkuj, who by that point had effectively become head of the Yymean military. Okhge feared that if in the event of civil war nuclear facilities fell in the hands of opposition forces they'd strategically deploy the more outdated, less destructive nuclear weapons in the arsenal against council positions, so the facility was built to store these and avoid their use entirely, to be brought back to their original locations after the war was won.

In the first month of the war the facility staff was joined by a radical black army division, led by Kijil Ilmila, who was meant to act as an additional garrison in case the position was found out. Instead, Kijil took over the facility, and repurposed it by constructing the infrastructure needed to actually launch the missiles. Choosing to eschew traditional security measures, the launch command system was designed to be unlocked using full body scan recognition. The only people who could access it were him and four members of his inner circle. Only Ili Gilayil remained.

By the time construction was finished the civil war was already lost. Kijil and his army abandoned the facility, taking with them the staff too to avoid word spreading. It had been months since, and the location remained deserted.

The narrow stone corridor started giving way to an open area on a downward slope, cut off by cliff walls at it's sides and peppered with dry vegetation. Ili Gilayil ordered the bus stopped, and everyone got ready to act. The entrance to the silo was blocked by a thick wall of large boulders and stones, moved there by the fleeing garrison. To dislodge these high powered explosives from the police station raid were positioned inbetween the holes in the wall, and detonated from a distance. The explosion was deafening, and destabilized the structure enough to send some of the rocks rolling down. To fully tear it down a portable artillery platform was hastily positioned. Jil Ilei, a forty year old army veteran who had worked with explosives most of her life, set off the rounds. She fired off five shells in a row, allowed the weapon to cool down and the smoke to settle, and seeing most of the rocks were pulverized, with only a thick steel door remaining, she fired off once more, sending it flying into the dark building.

Kgninjin was a labyrinth of humid concrete and steel corridors, stretching deep underground into the mountain. Gilayil guided his troops through some initial, essential maintainance work, lights were turned on and the bus and it's supplies were brought inside. Afterwards, he ordered a split of the group, with half putting up a barrier at the entrance, along with explosive traps and machine gun positions in the corridor, while the other half got ready to record the message Gilayil had prepared.

Jilaki Kanil and Ila Ilkijil positioned themselves behind Ila Gilayil, all three wearing black balaclavas along with their tattered military uniforms. Gilayil sat on a chair facing a desk that had been found thrown to the ground in an archive room. Behind them were five nuclear missiles in a ring formation, supported by steel rods going far up into the enormous launching chamber. The structure was designed so that the rockets could be launched simultaneously in multiple different directions. Jikila Ilan began recording.

'This is the Black Army of Yymea. We are currently in possession of nuclear weaponry and have the means to deploy it anywhere in the world. We demand from the Yymean government the freeing of all political prisoners, along with pardon for those exiled, the legalization of all anarchist and libertarian organizations, free and fair elections with international observers and for Ilbigug Jilkimug and his cabinet to be tried for treason against the Yymean people for their negligent and violent actions. If these demands are not met, we will begin striking at foreign locations. The War Council will be responsible. Long live Free Yymea'

The video, uploaded to the internet, quickly started to gain traction. Originally thought to be a prank or faked, a day and a half after it was uploaded parliament sources leaked that consensus in government was that it was in fact real, as the same missile models as those shown in the video were missing from Yymean nuclear facilities. Ilbigug Jilkimug has yet to make a statement, but when international pressure inevitably becomes too great he will have to be the first to speak up. Yymea is not ready for another disaster.