The Final War

[Thorgrimm-28]

The nuclear phase of World War three began on Thursday, 24 November, 2077. In a coordinated assault on their respective enemies, The People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics launched a full-scale nuclear barrage on the Anglo-American Defense Pact by the Chinese, and the European Alliance by the Soviet Union.

What forced the hands of these two Communist superpowers was that they were both involved in wars with the Republican superpowers. The Soviet Union's war with the European Alliance began as a proxy war with the European Alliance supporting the anti-Communist rebels of Poland. The revolt in Poland had begun on 10 January after the Communist government had opened fire on a peaceful Christmas Mass being held by the Cardinal of the Diocese of Warsaw.

The government forces had tried to break it up with water hoses and dogs, but the faithful refused to move until the cardinal gave the word, which he refused to do until the mass was completed. After about 20 minutes of this pushing and shoving a shot rang out, and a government soldier fell dead. That was the event that broke the Polish government's refusal to fire on fellow Poles. Later it was proven that the soldier had been shot from behind, from his own troops. Nobody knew who had fired that fatal shot, but when the Polish government had finished over 8,000 Polish citizens had been killed by their own leaders.

The revolt became very nasty, as reprisal followed reprisal. Eventually the European Alliance decided to step in and support the anti-communist rebels. Once EA training and weapons began to arrive in number, the governmental troops had no choice but begin to cede the countryside to the rebels. Once this began the EA started to supply special forces and advisers to help the rebels eventually overthrow the Communist government.

This kept up for about a year, and then the city of Krakow fell to the rebels. The fall of the city had two major, and long lasting effects. One, it caused a rash of rebellions against the Communists to spring up in all of the members of the Warsaw Pact. Two, in reaction to this event the Soviet Union, which had tried to remain out and let it's proxy finish off the rebels, began to intervene and sent troops out to combat and squash the rebellions.

This caused the EA to begin to send in 'volunteer' units to help the rebels who were closest to the member nation's borders. Since most of the EA forces were elite units trained to combat the Soviets, the Soviet troop losses began to skyrocket.

As the Soviet losses began to mount ever higher, the reprisals against the civilians began to escalate, which only drove more rebels into the countryside. The Soviets first realized that the EA was helping the rebels when they had lost the entire 347th Motorized Rifle Regiment to a well-executed ambush in the mountains of Czechoslovakia.

In reaction to this revelation, the Soviets attempted to seal their proxies' borders with the West. They found out just how utterly impossible that was when they lost another Motorized Rifle Regiment in the mountains of northern Yugoslavia. This pattern continued until the Soviet losses had been so great that the people back home began to get restless at the endless list of the dead that were supposed to be only putting down 'workers' strikes.

The Soviet High Command, STAVKA, eventually had to start pulling troops back to Belarus, the Ukraine, and the Baltic states, as revolts began to spring up there. In addition, of course, these were supported by the EA.

Then it happened, Prague was liberated by the anti-communist rebels, and proclaimed itself the Republic of Bohemia, then immediately applied to the EA for admission in the Alliance. The long march towards the Soviet frontier had begun. When the Soviets and Chinese launched their missiles, Latvia had just proclaimed itself independent from Moscow.



The China-AADP war had been going badly for the Chinese ever since the Americans had introduced their Power Armored Gauss rifle wielding troopers to the conflict. The Marine Raiders and Army Green Berets landed at will along the entirety of the Chinese coastline, and that of occupied Southeast Asia. These troopers were armored and unstoppable, along with having made living along the coastlines deadly for Chinese forces.

The American equipping of their Vietnamese and Cambodian rebel allies had turned Indochina into a meat grinder for the Chinese. Yet what worried the Chinese the most was the sporadic outbreaks of rebellion in their own nation. The last one in Szechuan province had only been put down at the cost of 5,000 troops and 30,000 civilians.

The Chinese had watched for years as the Soviets lost control of their proxy nations, and worried that the same thing would happen to them. When they had finally been pushed out of Alaska and Japan, the last with the American populace welcoming the American troops with open arms and recruits by the ten's of thousands, they were horrified and finally saw the handwriting on the wall.

The Chinese then came up with that desperate plan and proposed a first strike on their respective enemies to the Soviets. In the hope that they would catch their enemies by surprise; they were wrong...


As the superpowers were exchanging nuclear gifts, the rest of the world joined in the exchange, using the war as an excuse to end ages-old disputes with other countries. When the rest of the world joined in the nuclear madness, the Chinese missiles had begun to impact on the US.

The first targets in America were the bomber and missile launching points, so that any remaining military strength could be destroyed with ease. As these missiles fell, others began to target on population and manufacturing centers with devastating results. As the rockets fell, it was found that a number of the ones targeting civilian areas were carrying biological warheads containing virulent man-made diseases designed to decimate the population, and leave the buildings along with the war materials intact.

As the days rolled on, the lingering radiation and disease took their toll. When the bodies began to pile up, civilization collapsed. Due to the destruction of the transport systems and the spread of nuclear induced fires, food became scarce and famine began to stalk the land, slaying at will.

The survivors found that the medical centers were either swamped or destroyed, so the death toll from disease began to climb. Within 6 months 95% of the world's population was dead. Out of a population of 12 Billion, only a few million were left alive, scattered around the globe in small groups.

Those who remained were characterized by being self-centered, selfish, and were guided by man's baser instincts as civilization's thin veneer was stripped away by the need to survive.