Second Corporate War

The Second Corporate War was a large-scale armed conflict fought between April 2008 and August 2010. The main combattants were two oil corporations, SovOil and Petrochem.

The Conflict
SovOil and Petrochem were set to merge before April 2008, but the deal fell through. Later, a drilling accident at one of Petrochem's oil platforms caused the two companies to begin fighting in the Pacific Rim.

SovOil was initially successful against Petrochem, though both sides effectively crippled each other in just a few weeks in directly targeting and destroying oil facilities directly.

Partway through the war, Petrochem was able to gain the advantage over SovOil in an offensive marked by the loss of thousands of lives and the spending millions of Eurodollars. During this time, Petrochem was able to capture the Spratly Island chain. Petrochem was able assassinate Anatoly Novikovo, the CEO and founder of SovOil, using planes loaned from the government of Malaysia.

Despite SovOil's losses, Petrochem lost the war. SovOil was able to repeatedly crush Petrochem's forces and repel Petrochem's attacks. In October of 2009, Petrochem's forces were, essentially, unable to fight - therefore, SovOil was the winner by default.

Legacy
Like the First Corporate War, the public and analysts were surprised by the intense nature of the conflict, which was unlike anything seen before.

Additionally, both sides had broken national and international laws throughout the conflict. Though both sides used the armies of Pacific Rim nations against each other, they also went as far as to depose governments and install new ones. SovOil particularly ignored the demands of nationstates and did as it pleased - SovOil was later forced to pay reparations to some nations.

Finally, as oil refineries were a primary target during the conflict, the war left the southern part of the Pacific Rim extremely polluted, with conditions being described as 'all but uninhabitable' in the year 2020.