The main flashpoint in Pandora Tomorrow is Indonesia, in the year 2006, where the U.S. had established a military presence in the newly independent nation of East Timor to train that country's military forces in their fight against anti-separatist Indonesian guerrilla militias. Foremost among these Indonesian militias was the Darah Dan Doa (Blood and Prayer), led by Suhadi Sadono. Third Echelon decides to capture Sadono alive instead of merely assassinating him, due to the problems created when Fisher assassinated Georgian President Kombayn Nikoladze in 2004.