The Ones From Beyond
• 1914-1918 (WWI) over 38,000,000 lives lost
• 1939-1945 (WWII) over 65,000,000-90,000,000 lives lost
• 2045-2065? (The Conflict) less than 60,000 survivors
In the waning years of the 2030’s, the world found its resources completely used up by the global powers, which in turn resulted in the build-up of military stockpiles and arsenals. In 2041, the UN lost 13 major member states, including China and Russia. In 2042, Finland and Sweden, fearing a Russian invasion, became NATO member states and helped fund and construct the newly built EFSD Wall, spanning the eastern borders of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine. In 2043, the UN officially dissolves.
In 2045, the global war everyone feared finally comes. It began with the US and Russia invading various regions of the Middle East, leading to heavy conflict between American, Russian, and various Middle Eastern Forces and militant groups. In 2046, after a surprise assault, Russia breaks through the EFSD Wall and begins a series of sieges in Kiev, Warsaw, Helsinki, and Riga, killing thousands and displacing millions, NATO officially enters the war. That same year, China launches a critical first strike against its neighbors, taking Japan within 2 months, the Korean peninsula in 3, and all of southeast Asia in just one. In 2047, the border clashes between India and Pakistan lead to the very first nuclear detonation. Pakistan launched a nuclear strike on New Delhi, killing most of the city’s inhabitants. India retaliated with counter-nuclear strikes against Karachi and Islamabad, and followed it up with an invasion of Pakistan and its neighbor Afghanistan. In 2048 China attacks the Indian Border, turning India's war into a two-front defensive campaign. In that same year, Africa is subjected to multiple conflicts as innumerable factions fight for control of the continent's last dwindling resources. An already war-plagued existence turns into an absolute hell for those civilians forced to endure it, as death squads, corrupt military factions, and fanatical terrorist organizations commit horrific atrocities to possess what little is left.
Latin America begins to broil with revolution, as major civil wars spark within Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Panama. Anti-American sentiments begin to gain ground, and small armed attacks along the US-Mexico border results in a massive American-Canadian military intervention in the region. Rising conflicts across the globe begin to plague South America, as Brazil, Argentina, and various other nations on the continent are subjected to massive public unrest, which quickly turn to riots. 2049, China attacks multiple nations across the Pacific, compelling the US and Australia to send forces of their own to combat the Chinese. 2050, Russia takes more than half of Europe including Eastern Germany. A failed coup d'etat in Brazil results in complete anarchy across the nation. Neighboring states begin to annex the now lawless territory, and within months, heavy clashes between the nations of South America begin, with Brazilian resistance movements putting up whatever fight they could. 2051, Russia launches nuclear strikes against London, Paris, and Brussels. Despite innumerable losses, France and the UK launch ICBMs on St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Sevastopol, Minsk, Volgograd, and Kazan. 2051-2055, The nuclear holocaust is unleashed. Over 621 nuclear attacks take place, with most major cities becoming absolutely devastated as a result. Amongst them were New York City, Vladivostok, Yorkshire, Cape Town, Belfast, Tokyo, Chicago, Rome, Vienna, Venice, Athens, Riyadh, Shanghai, Beijing, San Diego, Seattle, Cincinnati, Washington DC, Ulyanovsk, Rio de Janeiro, Novosibirsk, Tehran, Baghdad, Berlin, Damascus, Mumbai, Sydney, Dubai, and Munich. An estimated 3,685,000,000 lives were lost in the initial blasts, with countless more succumbing to the fallout that came afterwards. In 2057, the adverse effects of nuclear warfare culminate in the first radiation storm, a combination of nature's elements with the killing power of radioactive fallout. Originating over Northern Africa, the storm made its way south across the landmass, killing more than 49% of the continent's then current population. In 2058, Chinese infiltrators attack and hack into the remnants of the Pentagon, destroying the American Information Network. 2059, The US cyber-attacks remaining Chinese Intelligence Facilities, leaving the nation's intel network inoperable. China retaliates with the sinking of the American 3rd Naval Fleet, but in vain, as the two nations fall simultaneously within the same year.
By the year 2060, most armies in allegiance with any of the pre-war nations have lost the will to fight. Battlefield conditions among the soldiers are horrid, with disease, famine, and death becoming the staple of life to those who continued to wage it. Standard issue equipment, provisions, and even weapons were no longer viable, as supplies were long since dried up and logistics rendered next to nothing, forcing soldiers to scavenge what they could from the war zone. In the estimated year of 2065, the troops on all sides cease fighting within the ruins of Damascus, and instead started a search for survivors of the apocalypse. In the following 12 years, many attempts were made to make contact with survivors across the globe. Over these 12 years, only a yield of a little over 50,000 people came. They soon realized that those who came were all that was left. Most of them carried what was later referred to as the McGuire Gene, a rare genetic sequence that prevents the bearer from succumbing to minor amounts of what would normally be lethal levels of radiation exposure, with only 1 in an estimated 100,000 people carrying it in their DNA. This last remaining contingent of humanity became a newly formed body, and the closest thing to government in decades.
They’re called The Survivor Coalition, or simply, “The Survivors”. This last bastion of order and government are led by a 5 person council, each one representing the five different branches tasked with maintaining humanity's survival. These are the branches of Agriculture and Construction, Peace and Criminal Justice, Preservation and Culture, Science and Research, and the Militia Security Defense Forces. For the last 10 years, The Survivors have been trying to rebuild society for the better of humanity. But results are failing. Food won’t grow, water is scarce, medical supplies are rationed to the extreme, and radiation storms ravage the world. The only thing that seems to be of any success is the Militia, the Survivor’s armed defense group. Their scavenger missions provide for The Survivors as a whole, bringing back equipment, weapons, supplies, medicine, and most importantly, ammo. Although humanity may have united, the world is no longer their domain. Out of the radiation, mutated monsters claim the wastes and desolated cities, preying upon the unsuspecting without hesitation. This is Earth, the old world, and soon it will be the grave for humanity, lest a miracle happens upon them.