Cordis Die (faction)

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

- Raul Menendez quoting the poem.

Cordis Die (Pronounced Cordis Dia) 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 22, 2014 as a social networking political movement. Popularity of the group spread rapidly due to the charisma of its unknown leader simply known as "Odysseus", who is actually terrorist Raul Menendez.

Motives
The main goal of Cordis Die seems to cripple capitalist governments all around the world, particularly the United States. 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 weapon's 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 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 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 US's drone fleet and spread rampant chaos across the globe until J-SOC would have a final showdown with their leader, the outcome of which is still undetermined.

Trivia

 * "Cordis Die" translates to "Day of heart" in Latin spelled backwards..
 * There is an official YouTube channel made by Activision, where propaganda videos are found.
 * The inspiration from Cordis Die and how it rapidly grew through the help of social networking media can be traced to the Occupy Wall Street Movement, a political movement that also wants to see the end of what they call the "1%" capitalist system. But unlike Cordis Die, The Occupy Movement hasn't resorted to terrorism.

Video
The faction's first video.