The Congo Ground War was a ten-year conflict fought by the National Republic of Umbutu against surviving aliens in the immediate aftermath of the War of 1996.
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The aliens that invaded Earth in 1996 were defeated in the July 4th counteroffensive that saw the destruction of the alien mothership. Although the aliens were defeated, some aliens survived. Some managed to establish pockets of resistance against humanity, but were ultimately either eliminated or captured by human forces. The remaining aliens were neutralized within days in the United States and Europe, but it took several months for the resistance in other countries to be eliminated due to a lack of military power caused by the War of 1996. In the remote region of the African Congo, however, a faction of aliens hold out for a decade.[1]
In the breakaway nation of the newly founded National Republic of Umbutu, a single surviving City Destroyer landed in that region in which it attempted to drill into the planet. The ship subsequently loses power due to the loss of the mothership and causing its alien occupants to wage war against the NRU. As the world's nations eradicated the alien resistance, the government of the NRU under the dictator Upanga Umbutu established an aggressive isolationist policy in which they refused outside help to end their alien threat. Upanga Umbutu believed that accepting any foreign help would only invite other nations to occupy his country and loot the landed City Destroyer, which he declared it as a state property of the NRU.[1]
Although Earth's governments and the Earth Space Defense tried and failed to convince the NRU's dictator to reconsider his stance, they were obligated to honor Umbutu's decree without being publicly tarnished as a colonizer. For over a decade, the remaining aliens in Umbutu tenaciously fought the nation's national army. But as the years went by the aliens grew increasingly aimless and lacking any level of organization, and inevitably falling one by one to the NRU. The last remaining aliens were ultimately eradicated in 2006.[1] Traces of this war remained with the people of the NRU, which they had made totems of the aliens they had killed and co-opted their blaster weapons into their arsenal.
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- Independence Day: Crucible
- Independence Day: Resurgence (Mentioned only)