Post by ADMINISTRATOR on Dec 29, 2019 13:19:59 GMT -6
plot!
In the year 2015, the world changed forever. A nuclear war began between the superpowers of the world, leveling huge swaths of the planet and plunging the rest into a nuclear winter. The skies were grey over what had once been cities. nature began to reclaim what had been taken from her by mankind. and some of the people that remained began to develop strange special abilities.
In Oregon, there exists a place where people still manage to hold on. The radiation is low, although the major cities are now shells of their former selves, overtaken by vines and wildlife and decay. There is no internet, there are no phones, but there is hope.
End of Worlds takes place in and around the sanctuary known as Eden, a safe haven established in the wake of the war that rests on the western coast. People travel from all across the country in search of it. Oftentimes their only other choice is death.
timeline!
not super important, but fun to read. outlandish, yes. interesting, also yes.
not super important, but fun to read. outlandish, yes. interesting, also yes.
March 2014. Russia and China enter a formal alliance. They create the Sino-Siberian trade agreement (SS) - Asia's answer to the EU. The agreement includes Russia, Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan.
June 2014. China begins an invasion of Taiwan in the east and Burma in the south.
July 2014. Russia absorbs Ukraine. China begins an invasion of South Korea.
August 2014. The UN issues a formal condemnation against Russia and China.
September 2014. America enters an alliance with India. China absorbs Burma. It then begins a peaceful takeover in Laos and Thailand. Russia absorbs Georgia.
October 2014. Uzbekistan, Armenia, and Turkey have since joined the SS. China drops a nuclear bomb on Seoul, prompting South Korea to surrender. North Korea threatens China.
November 2014. The international community issues another warning against China, which now has set its sights on encroaching into India through Myanmar. Japan is pressured into joining the SS.
December 2014. North Korea launches a nuclear weapon at China, but it fails. The missile explodes several miles above Beijing, raining down radioactive material over the otherwise mostly unharmed city. China and Russia declare war on North Korea. Through the combined efforts of the SS, North Korea is wiped off the map by nuclear weapons.
January 2015. The UN urges for the destruction of remaining nuclear weapons. Unsurprisingly, this does not happen. China gives India an ultimatum: join the SS or face their wrath.
February 2015. India, in a last ditch effort to defend itself, bombs Shanghai. America joins the war. Northern African countries begins to get involved as Russia attempts to ally.
March 2015. All out war begins. In Europe, Russia begins its invasions. Internet and cell service is lost throughout most of Eastern Europe. In Asia, the SS is attempting to absorb every remaining country in sight. Several Middle Eastern countries join the SS. In late March, America introduces a bio-engineered supervirus in China, dubbed FSFV (Failsafe Fever Virus) which has been modified from the Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers.
April 2015. America sends out a draft and puts soldiers (with FSFV vaccines) on the ground in India, Pakistan, and Iran in an attempt to prevent China's movements. Canada and Mexico join the war, with varying levels of organization and success. North Africa is now at odds with the rest of the continent after many countries allied with Russia. Fatalities from FSFV quickly become numerous.
May 2015. China destroys Delhi, India. The Chinese president is assassinated in the aftermath, through a joint effort between India and the United States CIA. War breaks out in Africa as well.
June 2015. China begins pulling back its efforts to take over India. American troops begin pressing north. Russia declares war on America and its allies. Several new terrifying American military tools are unveiled over the next few months. FSFV spreads to Mongolia and, eventually, Russia via Russian troops. America unveils Project Thor after dropping a series of large tungsten rods from orbit onto Chinese cities. The damage is immense.
July 2015. Reports of unspeakable cruelty and human rights violations perpetrated by American and Indian troops in southern China begin to leak. Microwave weapon technology sparks a heated debate after wiping out an entire Chinese village. However, people on the whole are not particularly empathetic towards China. Powerful military weapons are shipped by the US to the country of South Africa, and the two become allies against the SS.
August 2015. In a last ditch effort, the new Chinese president launches fifteen nuclear weapons, which land all across India. America and Britain respond by launching twenty-five total weapons, which land across China. American and Canadian troops come home due to the rampant radiation and destruction. Britain follows suit a week later. Africa begins to fall into chaos, as the Russian allies acquire microwave weapon and long range acoustic technology. A strain of FSFV kept in a laboratory in Sudan is released when the lab is destroyed, infecting thousands.
September 2015. The first bombs land on American soil. New York City, Pensacola, and Washington DC are all wiped out by Russian missiles. The death count is unspeakably high. Patients are sent out to other medical facilities in the US, resulting in a severe lack of space in hospitals and pushing the staff to their limits. The EU declares war on Russia.
October 2015. America becomes cut off from the rest of the world. More bombs land, launched from various countries in the SS (primarily Russia.) Internet and cell phone service can no longer operate. The Gulf and Eastern Coasts are destroyed almost in their entirety. The UN crumbles.
November 2015. Mutually assured destruction. The remaining nuclear sites in America launch every last weapon. Canada, Britain, and France do the same. By the end of November, Russia and most of China are highly radioactive wastelands. Top secret military technology renders the ground unfit for plant life, and animals starve en masse in these areas. The population of all former superpowers sits at a couple hundred thousand each. FSFV continues to kill in Asia, Europe, and Africa.
December 2015. The world has a grey Christmas, as ash falls from the sky. FSFV has wiped out the remaining population of South Africa, Mongolia, France, Greece, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and nearly all large cities in Russia and China. The SS and EU dissolve.
April 2016. By now, FSFV has exhausted itself, after killing over 80% of those infected. All remaining military technological weapons have been destroyed (LRAD, microwave weapons, Project Thor, ect.) Global trade and communication has not come back yet, and doesn't look like it will anytime soon. Technology is mostly useless. There is no internet, no cell service, no functional satellites in orbit, and almost all major cities have been destroyed or their entire population wiped out. Electricity and fuel are rare and highly prized.
September 2016. A pocket of civilization begins to rebuild in the small coastal town of Tillamook, Oregon - which gets renamed to Eden. It's a several day journey by boat, car, or horseback to what remains of Portland - which was wiped out by FSFV and explosive bomb.