Cordis Die (faction)

"Come my friends. 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world."

- Raul Menendez quoting the poem.

Cordis Die is an enemy faction in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It is led by Raul Menendez.

Background
Cordis Die officially became active on June 22nd, 2014 as a social networking political movement. Popularity of the group spread rapidly due to the charisma of its unknown leader, known as "Odysseus," or "Ulysses." In actuality, "Odysseus" is actually narco-terrorist (Raul Menendez).

Motives
The main goal of Cordis Die seems to cripple capitalist governments all around the world, particularly the United States, but it has also targeted dictatorships, such as Iran and North Korea, which were early protest targets. Cordis Die accomplish this mostly with mass political rioting.

Military Arm
Cordis Die also has an extremely large military arm within its organization capable of challenging the might of the superpowers around the world. Because of the wealth obtained by Raul Menendez, he used said resources obtained from his drug empire and weapons dealing to invest in experimental cyber weapons tech and entire hidden armies of drones and elite trained sleeper agents infiltrated in most of the world's top organization's and communities, including many special forces units and intelligence agencies. These huge number of troops, armored vehicles, drones, special forces, and unconventional armies would cause rampant chaos around the world in many smaller conflicts to build up Raul Menendez's empire.

As a result, his international organization managed to recruit and equip large amounts of extremely well-trained operators from his huge political movement and gathered millions of unemployed former soldiers as well as civilians rallying to Raul Menendez's cause such as the Mercs and Militia. Entire nations would also ally with Cordis Die, such as the Pakistani ISI, granting him access to advanced secret factories for war material. Overall, the strength of Cordis Die and their military allies and contacts would cripple the United States's drone fleet and spread rampant chaos across the globe until JSOC would have a final showdown with their leader, the outcome of which is still undetermined.

Known Memebers

 * Raul Menendez (leader) (KIA/Alive)
 * DeFalco (second in command) (KIA)
 * Javier Salazar (KIA/Alive)
 * Farid (CIA mole) (KIA)

=Associates==
 * Lev Kravchenko (weapons supplier) (KIA)
 * Mullah Rahman (ally)
 * Manuel Noriega (ally)

Trivia

 * In the YouTube video of a "Cordis Die" video, The user "PrisonerKAR120C" refers to Dave Anthony of Treyarch. Anthony was one of the writers of the Black Ops 2 story along with David S. Goyer.
 * "Cordis Die" translates to "of the Heart Day" in Latin.
 * There is an official YouTube channel made by Activision, where propaganda videos are found.
 * There is a real Twitter account called "Cordis Die".

Video
The faction's first video.