The moroccan bet - Canary's Cage, 2025

Original Concept By: Miguel Molina Remaked By: Roberto Zanon Date: 12 October 2025 Location: Canary Islands / Moroccan Coast Playable Side: Spain Duration: 2 days, 6 hours The year 2023 was a tumultuous time in North Africa, as a succession of radical Islamist parties came to power; first in Algeria and then all of Magreb. By October the King of Morocco was in dire straits to keep in control the country and his own head so the government alligned in the shadow with the other radical islamist countries but tried to maintain control without radicalize as its neighbourgs. The government tried to to control the people by force and the military budget was increased. Morocco's king really needed an external foe to deviate the attention of the people and the other Magreb governments. By the fall of 2023 Morocco navy got their main aspiration, a submarine command; an Amur P1650 and a second hand greek submarine. The Air force completed during 2024 the bought of the F-16 Block 70/72 fleet. The militar cupola were satisfied and remained loyal. By the other side Spain also increased its defense budget to comisioning in time the first F110 frigate, upgrading the F-100 frigates to the last version as the F-105 and replacing the old P-3 Orion fleet with C-235MPA Persuader. Spain’s relationship with Morocco had deteriorated after the Perejil Island Crisis of 2002 and the failure of a referendum on the status of the Western Sahara in 2025 was critical. With the backing of the of fellow magreb states, specially its former foe Algeria, Morocco began to press her claims to the Spanish held cities of Ceuta and Melilla and sent a lot of refugees to the Canary Island in a grey zone operation. The Algerian Navy crossed the Gibraltar strait with eight suface units and an unknown number of submarines to participate in "NAIL naval exercises" In response to the exacerbated tensions Spain increased her military garrison in the two cities. Just as tensions appeared to relax a secretly assembled