THQ's Homefront 2/World Fiction

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==America Pre-Invasion==
*Limited very expensive petrol
*Rationing
*Few cars
*Black-market
*More bikes/alternative transport/public transport
*Huge cost of public transport
*Implies huge cost of all goods as transport needed for everything
*A logical extension of this is alternative sources of power
**Solar cars
**Ethanol engines
**Horses, cattle etc to pull carts
 
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*Economic Depression
**Huge Unemployment 30+%
**Many shops closed down
**Large queues for food
**Shortages
**Everything’s rundown
**Crime rates soar
***Rich living in fortresses
**Billboards are blank and defaced
*Rise of online digital media
**Celebrity culture going strong
***Replaces serious news in mainstream media
**Newspapers and magazines shut down
 
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*Christianity resurgent
**Evangelists hugely popular
*Slums and homelessness for the poor
 
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*All manufactured goods including the few new cars come from the far east, Korea and Japan
*Reduced military might
**Large assets like Carriers scraped
**Switched to autonomous vehicles and drones
*No National law enforcement, municipalities manage their own for better or worse – local laws vary from place to place, violent anarchy in some areas
*Migration to the cities and warmer regions, massive overcrowding in cities, abandoned suburbs in northern areas
*Deadly flu epidemics leave ghost towns in some areas, no national strategy to cope
 
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==Timeline==
*2012 US suffers major economic downturn
**US withdraws forces from Iraq, Afghanistan and key strategic locations; aid to Israel ends
*US military changing nature, moving to a downsized light fast force with heavy automation and drone use
*2013 US - Japan alliance collapses
*2013 North and South Korea Unify under leadership of Kim Jong-un
*2016-17 178,000 US citizens die from cold/exposure during winter. Stadiums and large venues become mass homeless shelters
*2017 Basic US infrastructure begins to decay, highways are not maintained, national power grid breaks down, riots and looting nationally
*2017 Great Arab War pushes petrol prices to incredible highs
*2018 Korea declares war on Japan, Japan surrenders
*2019 US military withdraws from almost all overseas bases, all major assets like Carriers scraped
*2020 Martial law instituted in parts of US to control riots due to lack of food and goods
*2020 Migration from the colder regions towards major cities and coasts. Cities hugely overcrowded while many towns and suburbs are abandoned
*2020 Korean military upgraded with latest US, Japanese, Russian and Chinese technology
*2021 Greater Korean Republic formed
*2021 “Knoxville Fever” a virulent strain of flu kills 6,000,000 Americans, some towns and cities completely wiped out
*2023 Korean army exceeds 20,000,000 soldiers
*2024 Korea launches GPS satellite which is actually an EMP warhead
*2025 January 15th Korean agents detonate bombs on mass transit systems across the US
**January 15th - Korean cyber attack brings down computers of the Pentagon, Whitehouse, NSA, NORAD, FBI and CIA paralysing defence forces
**January 16th - EMP detonated over America destroying all unshielded electronics and shutting down power and communications nationwide
**January 18th - Korean troops capture Hawaii including the remains of the US navy at Pearl Harbour in surprise attack
**January 25th-30th - West coast cities captured by Korean forces
**January 27th - Paratroops dropped in all key cities all the way to the east coast
*2025
**November - DJ Ben begins broadcasting from Las Vegas
*2026
**January 24th - Las Vegas bombed out of existence by Korean air force
**February - Mississippi river irradiated
**April 10th - first Voice of Freedom radio broadcast from Montrose
**November 11th – The Voice of Freedom (Walker) crosses the Mississippi into the East
==Factions==
===Greater Korean Republic===
*State of the art military using captured US technology and equipment as well as their own
*Occupying Key cities, military bases and areas of natural resources which they are exploiting
**Most of America is unoccupied however
*Use of drones and other hi-tech equipment
*They have working services like power, water, sanitation
*Institute martial law and slavery to achieve their ends
*Murder of civilians
===National Guard===
*Cut off from any central command military units have retreated into the countryside to become a Guerrilla force
*Well trained with modern equipment but limited ability to maintain it and resupply
*No overall plan other than to resist
===Gangs===
*Lawless gangs taking advantage of the breakdown in society
*Living hand to mouth on whatever they can steal
*Murdering civilians to take what they want
*Armed but not combat trained, may defend their turf against the Koreans
===Resistance===
*People from all walks of life who have banded together to resist the occupation
*Have hidden bases but can also hide in plain sight amongst civilian population
*Have to steal equipment and supplies plus what they can repair and jury rig
*Moral dilemma in that attacking Koreans leads to massive reprisals against civilians
===Civilians===
*People who are just trying to survive
*Won't fight unless forced to
* May be made to work for the Koreans
==Environmental Considerations==
*No power, running water, sanitation, gas supplies
**Bodies pile up in the streets or are taken to mass graves or huge funeral pyres
**Fire required for illumination at night and heat
**Disease rampant, hospitals closed, medicine scarce
*No electronics
**Cars crashed and abandoned (what cars were still in use)
**Planes crashed
* Few shops, most are closed down
*Race riots leave their impact in graffiti and damage
*Signage
**Martial law
**Curfews
**Epidemic warnings
**Korean propaganda
**Rationing
*Slums and homelessness
**Stadiums as emergency camps
*Huge overcrowding in some cities, deserted suburbs in others
*Food and water are rationed and extremely valuable
*Irradiated zone along the Mississippi
*Korean areas are total contrast with power and facilities
**Drones and hi-tech equipment
*Slave labour
*Salvaged machinery and technology, jury rigging
**Alternatives to engines
*Defence of food, water, fuel, medicine, generators, radios, weapons, ammo and shelter as these are the most desirable items
*Fear of deadly flu epidemics returning
*Barter economy