New Story. New Year. New Disappointment... hopefully that's not the case :P
Also Rise Against's The Sufferer and The Witness. That album alongside Harlot's This Is The Second Death are my favorite albums of all time. Just throwing that for whatever reason.
And one more point, some of the background history is inspired by the YouTube channel Alternate History Hub. It's the best you can get in regards to alternative human events.
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July 4, 1776: The American colonies Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress, expressing general discontent toward British rule and announced the United States' intent to independently govern itself.
April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776: The Siege of Boston concluded with the British withdrawing from the city of Boston.
September 3, 1783: The Treaty of Paris is signed officially ending the American Revolutionary War.
September 17, 1787: The Constitution of the United States was signed by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and ratified by conventions in eleven states. It went into effect on March 4, 1789.
December 15, 1791: The United States Bill of Rights amended the United States Constitution with ten rights that all American citizens are guaranteed by their government.
October 21, 1797: The USS Constitution is finished at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston. Fort Adams early known as Castle William is officially renamed at ceremony presided over by President John Adams into Fort Independence.
1798: The former state capitol and house of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, designed by noted architect Charles Bulfinch, was completed. The state government used this building continuously until the formation of the Thirteen Commonwealths in 1969.
June 18, 1812 – February 17, 1815: The War of 1812.
May, 1816: Hopewell cave is discovered.
December 2, 1823: President James Monroe proposed the Monroe Doctrine, a policy of the United States which stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression, requiring U.S. intervention.
Summer, 1845: Henry David Thoreau inhabits a cabin at Walden Pond to further his transcendentalist philosophy.
April 25, 1846 – February 3, 1848: The Mexican-American War.
1851: The historic Wildwood Cemetery is founded.
1853: Bleak House by Charles Dickens is written and published.
1854: Ticknor and Fields publishing company is founded in Old Corner Bookstore by William Davis Ticknor, John Allen and James Thomas Fields.
June 14, 1855: Mormon missionaries arrive in Nevada and build a fort along one of the creeks that flows from the Las Vegas springs.
1858: The Whitespring Resort is constructed, becoming famous for its southern style and sulphur springs.
April 12, 1861: The Battle of Fort Sumter is fought in South Carolina. The Confederate States Army takes the Union controlled fort and begins the American Civil War.
June 3, 1861: The Battle of Philippi, the first land battle of the American Civil War, takes place at the current site of the Philippi Battlefield Cemetery.
September 22, 1862: President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
November 19, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, it was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the decisive Battle of Gettysburg.
April 14, 1865: While attending a play in Ford's Theater, Abraham Lincoln is fatally shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. The President would die the following morning.
April 20, 1865: The United States Department of War issues a wanted poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth.
May 9, 1865: President Andrew Johnson declares an official end to the American Civil War with Confederate States of America surrendering at the Appomattox Courthouse a month before.
March 30, 1867: In what would be dubbed Seward's Folly, the United States purchases Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2 million.
1874: Jamaica Plain is incorporated into Boston.
1877: The present day structure for Trinity Church is completed.
1879: James Ritty invents the cash register.
1877: The beginning of the culmination of scientific works done by many individuals such as Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell.
April 6 - May 14, 1894: Lorenzo Cabot's expedition to Ubar in the Empty Quarter of Arabia occurs.
1895: The Schoelt company is established.
The United States Penitentiary Tibbets comes into existence through an act of Congress.
April 21, 1898 – August 13, 1898: The Spanish-American War.
1898: Lorenzo Cabot is imprisoned in Parsons State Insane Asylum by his son, Jack.
September 14, 1901 – March 4, 1909, March 4, 1913 – January 6, 1919: Theodore Roosevelt became the 26th and 28th President of the United States prior to the assassination of William McKinley and the end of the Boxer Rebellion. He achieved his third term of office after successfully running against Democrat nominee Woodrow Wilson.
1903: Mary Anderson invents the windshield wiper.
In baseball, Boston wins the 1903 World Series
December 17, 1903: Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
1907: The Monongah mining disaster occurs, the explosion kills over 300 workers and traps hundreds more at Monongah mine.
28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918: The First Great War.
German victories were seen after invading and defeating France while simultaneously gaining victories against the Russian Tsar.
The Russian Empire found losses and victories against the Central Powers furthering the Tsar's decline in power.
Great Britain doesn't enter the war until 1917.
The United States enters the war in 1915. After hearing France's defeat American forces landed on the ports of Albania and Montenegro with a plan to push through Austria-Hungary from the southeast; into the German Empire with assistance from both Imperial Russian and Balkan troops.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved later in the war.
The Ottoman Empire collapsed after the war. Leaving behind large independent states governed by popular locality. One famous example being Kurdistan.
Reparations after the war aren't as severe as one would expect.
1919: The United States government establishes the Grand Canyon as national park.
1922: Fascist and Communist uprisings were put down by a joint Euro-American intervention. Communist sympathisers ventured into volatile Southeastern Asia after the failed rebellions.
1924: The end of the 300 year long American-Indian Wars.
1925: Richard G. Drew invents adhesive tape.
1931: Vim! Pop Incorporated was founded by Herbert Reed who originally sold Vim as a health tonic.
1934: The Flying Scotsman locomotive sets a train speed world record at 100 miles per hour.
March, 1934: Vikki and Vance begin their crime spree.
May 23, 1934: Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed and killed, on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
1935: Carl C. Magee invents the parking meter.
1936: The M1 Garand, is adopted by the United States of America as the standard semiautomatic rifle for the United States Army – and subsequently the first semiautomatic rifle of any major army.
1938: The Giant Teapot is built in Appalachia to represent the largest pottery industry in the world.
The Bren gun, a Czechoslovakian design, is adopted by the British Empire as the standard LMG of the Commonwealth.
The MP38 is adopted by the German Republic as it's standard submachine gun for the German Army.
1942: The Sierra Army Depot is erected. Its mission is to store and maintain a defensive supply of military ordnance. This mission continues until 1991.
1943: The Los Alamos Nuclear Research and Development facility, codename: the Reservation, completes construction. Los Alamos becomes part of the research team for the Manhattan Project.
July 16, 1945: The first atomic bomb is detonated by the United States of America.
July 21, 1948: A Boeing B-29-100-BW Superfortress crashes into Lake Mead, remaining mostly intact.
October 1, 1949: The People's Republic of China becomes the main political force in China.
April 12, 1961: Russian pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Followed by Carl Bell in May 5.
1969: The United States created thirteen commonwealths, creating another, intermediate layer of governance between the state and the federal government. The national flag was amended to reflect this and depicts fourteen stars - thirteen in a circle to represent the commonwealths and one in the middle to represent the federal government and the nation as a whole.
July 16, 1969: The Virgo II Lunar Lander Valiant 11 with U.S.S.A. astronauts Captain Richard Wade, Captain Mark Garris, and Captain Michael Hagen lands on the Moon. The astronauts become the first humans to walk on a celestial body other than Earth.
November 14, 1969: Virgo III Lander Valiant 12 lands on the Moon.
1992: The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed. It is now responsible for the demilitarization of stores of surplus ammunition that have been deemed unfit or obsolete for military purposes. This mission is to be overseen by the Industrial Operations Command in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, providing a greener, cleaner way to dispose of military ordnance. The mission continued until 2050.
2002: West Tek is founded.
2009: Smitty's is established.
2016: Wonderglue is first put to market and becomes an American household staple.
2020: The Delta IX rocket is commissioned by the U.S.S.A., the last of the manned rockets to the Moon.
2021: Hubris Comics begins publishing comic books, one of their most popular is Grognak the Barbarian.
2026: The original Vim! Pop factory burned down, prompting the rebuilding of the factory and eventually its recreation as a souvenir shop.
2031: After the tragic death of Emilia Butler, the Boston city council voted unanimously to have her remains interred within the Old Granary Burying Ground. Vault-Tec rebrands Morgantown's local university as Vault-Tec University.
2034: The Delta IX rocket is converted for U.S. military purposes. Crew and instrument sections are replaced with a nuclear warhead.
October, 2036: The Landview Lighthouse finishes construction in Appalachia.
2037: The Mister Handy series of robots is first brought to market as a general construction and maintenance unit by General Atomics International.
2039: Prometheus Coal, a division of Poseidon Energy, opens a coal mine in central Utah. As a result a small village is settled nearby called Eagle Rock.
An early bug in Mister Handy robots that caused interference in the operation of the multiple arms is fixed with a hardware update, with no major problems since then.
The Mistress of Mystery makes her debut in Hubris Heroes #8, published by Hubris Comics.
2040: The Tibbets Prison is commandeered by the United States government in association with Vault-Tec and Poseidon Oil to tie into their Project Safehouse.
April 5, 2040: the Secretary of the Army makes the decision to build a new Disciplinary Barracks, with a capacity for 456 inmates. A cost ceiling of $363 million in allocated construction dollars is set. The target budget year for funding this project is fiscal year 2041. Construction begins in fall of 2042, with completion projected for fall of the year 2045.
August 16, 2041: Doctor Morrison Rand was abducted by aliens on-board Mothership Zeta when he was leaving the campus of Banfield College in Humboldt.
2042: John-Caleb Bradberton, an amateur chemist, began developing a soft drink that would provide energy, focus and 120% the daily recommended value of sugar.
A major earthquake takes place in Mexico City. The Mister Handy general construction robot becomes the leader in sales in Mexico.
Egret Tours is founded.
Wilson Automatoys is established in Boston, Massachusetts.
Giddyup Buttercup, a product of Wilson Automatoys, is copyrighted.
April 2, 2042: The City of Watoga, West Virginia, Eastern Commonwealth is founded.
June 25, 2042: Robert House founded RobCo Industries.
July, 2042: Discussions with Vault-Tec to determine space and functional requirements for the new Tibbets facility.
2043: Mass Fusion is founded.
2044: The formula of Nuka-Cola is perfected by John-Caleb Bradberton, after nearly two years of work and help from his Beverageers.
The X277 "Viper" magnetic rail cannon was developed for the U.S. Military by West Tek.
2047: RobCo Industries becomes one of the most profitable corporations on Earth.
Shannon Rivers makes her radio debut as part of the "Invaders from Planet Zed!" radio program.
April 28, 2050: The Nuka-World power plant suffers from a meltdown, just a few months before the park was scheduled to first open.
May 1, 2050: Nuka-World is opened to the public with Nuka-Town USA and Kiddie Kingdom being the only parks. The theme park attracted more than 40,000 visitors at its grand opening.
The mission of Sierra Army Depot is changed again. It is refurbished with the latest in technology and is from now on used as a secret research installation for developing and testing robotic, biological and conventional weapons until 2076.
2051: Seeking to protect business interests and their oil supply, the United States begins to exert increasing pressure on Mexico, citing the political instability and pollution stemming from Mexico as a threat to the United States. Various economic sanctions serve to destabilize Mexico, and the United States military enters Mexico to keep the oil refineries running and making sure oil and fuel continue to make their way north across the border at Mexico's expense.
The N99 10mm pistol becomes standard issue military sidearm following the phase out of the N80.
The Weston water treatment plant was built as part of a decade-long plan to modernize Boston's aging sanitation systems.
Shannon Rivers begins her long running role as the radio voice of the Mistress of Mystery.
April, 2052: The Resource Wars begins resulting in the Euro-Middle Eastern War. Both the European Commonwealth and the Middle Eastern powers were reduced to ruin during this conflict. Middle Eastern oil fields run dry and the Commonwealth dissolved into bickering, quarreling nation states fighting over the last, remaining resources it has.
America begins suffering from an energy crisis, prompting companies like REPCONN Aerospace to begin development of new fuel sources.
A television documentary revealing the withered husk of the Texas oil fields brings the oil shortage into American households and reveals how deep the energy crisis runs.
The last manned space flight to the moon to be performed by the USSA takes place. On that flight, the astronauts recover the flag planted on the surface by the Valiant 12 team.
May, 2066: Construction of Vault 87 begins.
Spring, 2066: As the oil resources dry up across the globe, China's fossil fuel dependency causes an energy crisis in the nation. China, bordering on collapse, becomes more aggressive in its trade talks with the United States. Unwilling to export oil to China, talks between the United States and China break down.
June 24, 2066: Negotiations between the U.S. and other world powers come to a dramatic end, with the president walking out of oil talks with the other world powers. After a much heated debate, the president stormed out of the meeting and declared that the last known supply of petroleum will be used exclusively by the U.S. and the U.S. will not sell or trade any oil to outside parties.
Summer, 2066: Adding further insult to the Sino-American relations, the first crude fusion cell is unveiled, one of the results of the power armor project. Devices designed for the fusion cell begin to be manufactured. Incorporating fusion power into the general U.S. infrastructure begins, but the process is too slow to supply power to the regions that need it. Nearly eleven years later, few sections of the United States were supplied with fusion power.
December, 2066 - January 10, 2077: The Sino-American War.
Canada is annexed by the United States.
New models of power armor were introduced into the fray by United States forces.
China occupied Alaska before it was taken back by American forces.
October 23, 2077: The Second Great War begins. Plunging the Earth into the deep darkness of a nuclear holocaust, resulting in the majority of human civilization crumbling across the planet. Weather occurrences turned unstable. Precipitation from occasional extratropical cyclones were tainted with soot, ash and radioactive elements.
A period known as the Great Winter also known as the New Ice Age began.
2106: The entire Earth is covered in snow.
2472: 395 years have passed since the Second Great War. Members of the U.S. shadow government and military industrial complex known as the Enclave reclaimed its original North American territories through peaceful assimilation or violent conquest.
One instance include Captain [REDACTED], son of James [REDACTED] and Catherine [REDACTED], known locally as the Lone Wanderer subsumed the areas inside the Mid-Atlantic states, comprising of places such as the Capital Wasteland/Columbia Commonwealth and Western Pennsylvania during a Governmental schism between the United States President and a select few of high ranking officers. After his early retirement and change of leadership, Captain [REDACTED] headed west only to discover that the Four States and Southwest Commonwealths is beset by an influx of warring tribes, one of which is a confederation of eighty-seven conquered tribes ruled by a totalitarian dictator.
Another include Sergeant Major Nate [REDACTED] who by 2227 was discovered by Enclave scouts alongside his wife Nora and his son Shaun inside the desolate Vault 111. They were deemed as the Sole Survivors of Vault 111, hidden away while mercenaries under the secretive Institute's pay ransacked the Vault and kidnapped the [REDACTED] family's fellow residents. Nate [REDACTED], who served in the 2nd Battalion, 108th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army during the Sino-American War renewed his Army vigor as he brought the New England Commonwealth under Government control to which the President compartmentalized each faction within the Commonwealth while showing interest in the Institute. Sergeant Major Nate [REDACTED] spent the next few decades in the Army as a drill instructor, his wife Nora serves in the Neo-Judiciary of the American Government and his son Shaun grew up to be a Director of the Institute after it's submission to the Enclave.
Up until this point no-one knows who actually initiated the first nuclear strike. Theories range from Chinese retaliation for the Asian and North American Theaters to suicidal fanatics of a nuclear terrorist cult-
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"Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings."
Micah 7:13
This became the new world. The old world burned and withered away. Ruthlessly torn asunder by powers far beyond her master's control. The natural balance shifted but not in their favour. Not anymore.. Domination, Control, Mastery done by one species:
Humans.
By and large, humans are much weaker than monsters, less magically gifted than elves, and much less industrious than dwarves. What they do have going for them is the favour of the Chief God, who spins fate and directly empowers heroes to provide monster-killing powers. Yet they fall so easily to the temptations made by the Mamono. Most saw no reason to slay these "innocent" monster girls and this belief led many to their downfall.
They, however are the complete opposite.
These humans are condemned to survive and prosper within the ruins of a scarred nation, forever in constant, merciless war. They have shown to be far more destructive and antipathetic than the native humans here. They are capable of cleaving through hordes of Mamono with just one warrior, They can force the elements to their will, our weapons are primitive compared to their limitless arsenal. There isn't any point in seducing them, their existence and their minds: Brutalized and Altered. Reshapen as perfect soldiers. Gone are their days of the flesh.
To us they're eldritch immortals from a new age.
"AAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!"
"WHERE ARE THEY COMING FROM?!"
"GET EVERYBODY TO SAFETY! NOW!"
"G-God, ple-please! forgive me..."
The sounds of unrelenting explosions echoed all throughout the capital city of Lescatie. Lightning rained down on the city alongside giant darts of fire. Buildings, walls and fortifications fell one by one. They came from the skies, the fallen walls and from the earth below. 'No quarter', that's all they'll ever hear from these assailants. A purge was seen as both Order members and Monster Girls fighting, surrendering or fleeing the besieged capital were put to the sword. The Mamono then remembered the omens first foreseen by the High Priestess of Hel and how the Banshee cabal cried and screeched of the coming Revelation.
Massive storms brewed erratically.
Demonic mana is fractured and stripped away of all influence.
Statues of the Chief God wept bloody tears.
They ignored all of it.
The head of the Banshee clergywomen then received another vision. This time in the form of passing images and a speech.
"The history of these days will be written in blood. By crushing the armies of our enemy, by seizing the weapons they thought to turn against us, we were fighting for our very existence. But if there are those who would deny us peace; refuse us our rightful place in the universe, then we will unleash such terrible vengeance that generations yet unborn will cry out in anguish!" Droves of men and women encased in black, menacing armor stood at a derelict Order cathedral before marching on into Monster Girl territory. They were flanked by comrades in similar armor, metallic carriages, armoured giants and accoutred automatons. Soon they passed through the Tentacle Forest, corrupted woodlands separating the Human and Demon Realms, leaving behind an unquenchable wildfire.
"The enemy may shatter our bodies, but they cannot break our spirit. Even now they advance on our home world, to seize by force what they cannot claim by right. They cannot imagine what awaits them." Gallows of steel beams marked the outskirts of human lands. Each beam held bags of mauled remains from the disastrous Mamono conquests and counterattacks. All of which ended in total annihilation of the intruders and the systematic execution of all prominent extremist faction participants. The rest of the Monster Girls were made examples in the form of the infamously named: "Gore Bags."
"WE WILL SMITE THE INVADERS FROM OUR SKIES! Though they sweep over our lands like the sands of winter, never again will we bow before them; never again endure their oppression; never again endure their tyranny. We will strike without warning and without mercy, fighting as one hand, one heart, one soul. We will shatter their dreams and haunt their nightmares, drenching our ancestors' graves with their blood. And as our last breath tears at their lungs; as we rise again from the ruins of our cities. They will know..."
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SKIES?!"
"THE SKIES ARE FALLING!"
The frantic Monster Girls speak truth as an erosion of tortured magicks swept across the realm seeping the air and heavens above in oppressive agony. A flash of light stroke at the heart of the Royal Makai citadel. A crater of ash was left in its wake as many more encompass the Royal Demon Realm.
A lone soldier in black armor with white skeletal iconography standing right in front of the bereaved city holding the severed head of the current reigning Maou by her hair. He turned to face her as he spoke three distorted words before the vision came to a close.
"You CaNNot hidE..."
Humanity came as the final blow to Mamono extant.
Novitiate Alannah emerged out of her sleep terror-struck at the vividly grotesque reverie she endured watching at full length. These dreams were becoming more morbid and clear each time she slumbered. Though she recently came of age to start her duties as a Priestess of Hel and it was expected to receive visions of death, the contents of these dreams are... disturbing. Disturbing enough to bring the whole cabal into hysteria as they too saw the visions. Solemn cries turned into petrified wailing, loud enough to echo all throughout the Demon Realms.
The first omen brought into this world.
Alannah stepped outside of her temporary home, an abandoned columbarium and into the white cliffs of the Snowy Region, the northern-most part of Lescatié. She was sent here for a very important mission by the priesthood. To warn the native Mamono about the coming warpath and assist them with finding a place of refuge.
Not delaying the inevitable her mentor: High Priestess Raicheal ordered every Banshee to hail all living beings of the coming doom. She then saw Alannah who had froze in fear and comforted her. The young girl was startled when the superior clergywoman suddenly hugged her.
"Mentor!"
"'Tis fine child. All of your sisters including myself are afraid of what's to come. But you must not let fear deter you young Alannah. For it does not control you. Remember your duty and focus. Keep in mind your purpose, priestess."
"Y-Yes! Thank you mentor!"
She then volunteered to head up north where the Monster Girls of ice and snow reside. From there she cried and cried, above the cliffs hoping those who hear her voice understand what is to come. Today is no different but as she continue to shout and weep tears, alongside leading these relatively serene creatures a sound can be heard from the forest below. Thundering sounds of treads grinding the cold soil, sporadic explosions and most alarmingly screams. Alannah looked down to see what was going on but the trees and rising snow made it difficult to do so. Another sound came into play, this time it was close and it came from the heavens above. The Banshee looked up and saw great, black arrows covering the sky with a mountainous floating disc leading them.
'Here?! They were here, in Lescatié, all along?!'
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Two soldiers wearing the latest Mark V Advanced Power Armor marched on towards the ship's cryogenic chamber. Receiving clearance from the guards standing near the automated doors they pressed on until they reached the room with pod like apparatuses. Pushing down on one the consoles a pod began thawing it's occupant as the soldiers moved towards the pod before saluting.
"Welcome back, sir."