Prologue
All hell broke loose.
July 30, 2047
The world was falling into another great depression. The economy was falling terribly because too many resources were being used up too fast.
A couple of miners found something that many would consider impossible to find. They found one-hundred-percent naturally, clean water.
The miners never claimed loyalty to any nation, causing every nation to politically argue for which nation should claim it.
The head of a nation claimed that it was found on their territory but was later proven wrong when the facts stated that it was found on neutral ground. Then all head of every nation continued to discuss about who can claim it. It was a valuable resource but since it was only less than one-percent of the entire planet, whoever nation claimed it could become the richest one at the price of the fall of all the others.
None of them wanted to lose but none of them could figure out a way to satisfy everyone's needs,,, More like everyone's wants.
Despite the issue of the economy, technological advancement has been flourishing like nothing before.
Due to the fact that the higher-ups paid more attention to what was happening politically than to what was happening on their own soil, scientists, inventors, and theorists knew no boundaries.
In the medical field, prosthesis has dramatically improved to the point where the prosthetic limb is connected to the nervous system. Once that was mastered, neural implants and other such augmentations started its uprising with no limitation. Why would it? The military used it to their advantage.
In another field of science and technology, space travel has been improved to the point where mankind can travel to other planets within the solar system. It was pricy, but then again, it was only used for luxury purposes. It still had its issues as well.
Five years later, politically speaking, they finally decided to form an agreement in which they decided to split the shares equally. Many disagreed openly about it but the majority overruled them and they decided to go along with it. The majority, underhandedly, merged together to form one nation and called themselves The Government because it was their government that controlled everything and no one else.
July 30, 2062
Ten years after the treaty was signed, the nations had an extremely large refinery built at the site at which the precious liquid was found.
Their agreement led each and every single one of them into a world of peace. Maybe not prosperity but the idea of world peace was good enough to live with for the time being.
After about two years, the nations began to show significant signs of positive change within their economies. People considered it the golden age and lived a fairly good life. Everything was prospering; science, technology, space travel, and even nuclear studies. Since every nation lived in peace with the other, they thought that there was no need to regulate nuclear science which brought forth wondrous advances in everything, fortunately.
But that all changed when the refinery was destroyed five years after it was constructed.
August 14, 2067
The destruction of the refinery resulted in an investigation of every nation led by The Government.
Rumors spread that the fault was to the nations that disagreed with the treaty to begin with. The investigation went unbiased despite these rumors but to no avail. The investigation turned up with no evidence of any nation being responsible for the destruction.
The conclusion of the investigation made every nation feel perturbed about the situation they were in to the point where they started to point fingers at any other nation but their own. The tension grew to the point where they were threatening each other with their nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
All of them viewed it as an act of war and initiated a missile strike on a different nation, claiming that it was in self-defense everyone knew better than to believe that.
The war is now known as the Resource War. The whole world felt the immense impact of that war no matter what they called it.
Ideas and theories of conspiracy led to a few nations that merged to form The Government to break off and become the Resistance.
May 20, 2070
War never changes, though. The methods of battle, on the other hand, went from bad to worse.
By using any possible method to get the upper hand on their enemies, all sides of the battle field turned to their savage and primal ways.
Torture was no longer frowned upon, but encouraged. Executions were broadcasted proudly. Above all that, thanks to the boundary-less scientists, chemical warfare was initiated lightly.
The advancement of stem cell research has greatly improved combat results along with neural implants, augmentations, and military prosthesis replacements, soldiers never looked nor felt more powerful.
Other super soldier programs were also announced to any citizen willing to fight for their country. Only that with a few people willing to lend a hand, military branches had to resort to other methods of combat.
June 26, 2103
The use of androids for combat took over the battlefield for the human soldiers to remain in cryogenic sleep. They were put to sleep to refrain from aging and were only thawed out when the droids' cycle of fighting was over.
February 15, 2113
The androids were completely diminished; thawing out the human soldiers had to be done early but due to the early thawing process, half of the military personnel died because of the failings of cryoprotectants used before they were put in cryostasis.
Mastering cryonics was still a long way ahead.
August 17, 2127
Earth was becoming a warzone; no place for civilians to flourish. The colonization program was initiated where space stations were built to orbit around planets within the solar system.
Using colonizing ships, the Government was the first to begin evacuations for the civilians but ran the risk of having a ship being shot down on sight.
The other super states followed through with their own similar programs and began to ship off their civilians to the dark voids of space.
July 3, 2172
Resources became rarer and rarer to come by. If the war continued, sooner or later, the soldiers on the field would've been fighting with sticks and stones. Their last resort came to pass that all sides of the field would launch a nuclear strike on their enemies.
Whether they believed it or not, all of them have lost the war. They've lost so many, including what they were fighting for. Their idiotic stubbornness led them to think that if they were going to lose, they were going to bring all they could with them.
July 7, 2172
Operation: Last Minute Recruiting was initiated to recover as many soldiers as possible to evacuate them to the nearest space station; one that orbited around the earth itself.
La Habra.