[NOTICE: This is an alternate timeline. It has yet to be decided as canon.]
2092
Austin TX
April 23
Mid-Morning
James sat on the edge of the small cliff, overlooking the destruction beyond him. It was worse than it had been ten years ago. Back then there was still life in the world. Still good Samaritans, and decant people. Now there was just pain and hate in the world. Humans fighting for the will to live. The PHU and CDT had fallen. The SSR went missing, and Margo's Mercs and the Scrappers joined the USRC. All mutants had been purged. Captain Roebuck was demoted to local sergeant, and Sgt. Diesel was captured and is to this day, still rotting in USRC detainment.
James never in his life had thought the USRC would stoop so low. But after the commander died, and General Chelsea came to power, the world turned to aitch, e, double hockey sticks. Literally. The USRC Special Forces discovered an SSR plot to drop nuclear missiles over Austin, where the USRC's mutant testing facility was. As if the place wasn't radiated enough already. The spec ops team failed to stop the SSR and the bombing raid commenced. Former General Chelsea, now Commander, retaliated and launched a full assault on the Russian's base in Arizona. When they arrived, they found the base empty, and one of Chelsea's guard, Rouge, missing. Rouge had informed the Russians about this plan, and they abandon their base, heading for the USRC's HQ. The USRC looted the SSR's base and found their stash of nukes. They then used them to bomb the Russian army.
Commander Chelsea became even more power-hungry. Over the next eight years, she eradicated all mutant life using the bombs. The PHU and CDT formed up against the USRC. The two factions marched onto the USRC's HQ. They suffered a crushing defeat. But so did the USRC. Their numbers dropped so low, they had to “hire” Margo's Mercs and the Scrappers. Sergeant Diesel was captured, and Nato was executed. The USRC let the small handful of CDT survivors go and killed the PHU survivors.
During this time, the USRC's R&D branch, Skynet, started to create a self-aware A.I. and titanium-alloy humanoid machines. Once the A.I. realized that it could run on cits own, without human operation, it activated the machines and turned against the USRC. For two years humans fought for their lives, building underground towns, and new weapons to fight the terminators, as they called the machines.
James just wished the fighting would end
[Credit to Ziji for the photo]
2092
Austin TX
April 23
Mid-Morning
James sat on the edge of the small cliff, overlooking the destruction beyond him. It was worse than it had been ten years ago. Back then there was still life in the world. Still good Samaritans, and decant people. Now there was just pain and hate in the world. Humans fighting for the will to live. The PHU and CDT had fallen. The SSR went missing, and Margo's Mercs and the Scrappers joined the USRC. All mutants had been purged. Captain Roebuck was demoted to local sergeant, and Sgt. Diesel was captured and is to this day, still rotting in USRC detainment.
James never in his life had thought the USRC would stoop so low. But after the commander died, and General Chelsea came to power, the world turned to aitch, e, double hockey sticks. Literally. The USRC Special Forces discovered an SSR plot to drop nuclear missiles over Austin, where the USRC's mutant testing facility was. As if the place wasn't radiated enough already. The spec ops team failed to stop the SSR and the bombing raid commenced. Former General Chelsea, now Commander, retaliated and launched a full assault on the Russian's base in Arizona. When they arrived, they found the base empty, and one of Chelsea's guard, Rouge, missing. Rouge had informed the Russians about this plan, and they abandon their base, heading for the USRC's HQ. The USRC looted the SSR's base and found their stash of nukes. They then used them to bomb the Russian army.
Commander Chelsea became even more power-hungry. Over the next eight years, she eradicated all mutant life using the bombs. The PHU and CDT formed up against the USRC. The two factions marched onto the USRC's HQ. They suffered a crushing defeat. But so did the USRC. Their numbers dropped so low, they had to “hire” Margo's Mercs and the Scrappers. Sergeant Diesel was captured, and Nato was executed. The USRC let the small handful of CDT survivors go and killed the PHU survivors.
During this time, the USRC's R&D branch, Skynet, started to create a self-aware A.I. and titanium-alloy humanoid machines. Once the A.I. realized that it could run on cits own, without human operation, it activated the machines and turned against the USRC. For two years humans fought for their lives, building underground towns, and new weapons to fight the terminators, as they called the machines.
James just wished the fighting would end
[Credit to Ziji for the photo]