Y2K Connections Collapse

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### Result

Most of the world falls into anarchy with new countries springing up in the former lands of other countries

### Territorial changes

Collapse of all countries and loss of all communications.

The **Y2K Connections Collapse**, also known the **Worldwide Connection Failure**, is a name coined for the connection collapse and the subsequent cyberattack which happened on New Year's Eve 2000. Many countries had to be redeveloped, and some countries were wiped from existence. It is known as the largest mystery in contemporary history, as it affected the entire world, and nobody knows how it happened.

## Chronology of events

* Dec. 31, 1999 - The New Year is near, and hosted websites inside the WorldWide Web experience immense traffic, with hundreds of gigabytes of content uploaded every hour.
* Dec. 31, 1999 - **11:43 pm** - As digital traffic increases, media in densely populated countries suddenly shuts down. Server super-computers detect strange signals worldwide, and telecommunications in  Asia and  Europe collapse suddenly.
* Dec. 31, 1999 - **11:51 pm** - Media traffic continues coming from the  Americas. Server super-computers almost find the source of the traffic, but suddenly stop. Police worldwide start raiding homes with computers in them, only to find nothing suspicious. This results in some clashes, some of which led to riots.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **12:09 am** - Affected by the hacking, an  US nuclear silo suddenly fires at  Russia. The  American Air Force scrambles to take out the missiles before they hit the missile's target, which is the city of File:Saint Petersburg-icon.png St. Petersburg. However, the cruise missile enters  Russian territory along with the  US jets.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **12:22 am** - The first missile strikes File:Saint Petersburg-icon.png St. Petersburg, destroying one fourth of the city.  Russia retaliates, believing it is not an accident. The first “nuclear” conflict begins.  China detects a missile, and believing that it is headed for them, launches an attack on File:Japan-icon.png Japan.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **12:47 am** - The first bombs detonate in the  US and  Russia. By this time,  Chinese bombers are rolling off from their bases in  East China.  India also launches attacks.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **01:02 am** - Multiple detonations in several cities. However, large cities are not hit yet. Most  Chinese missiles fall down from the sky and land in the Pacific sue to their complex systems needing signal.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **01:13 am** - Unwilling to blamed for the end of the world,  Russia unveils its superweapon.  Russia fires a missile with an EMP effect into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. All missiles crash into the sea, but  Chinese bombers are still in the air. Soon, power almost worldwide shuts down.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **05:54 am** - The missiles are gone, and at the same time, huge riots have begun, and several governments have collapsed. However, the "conflict" is not over yet. The first wave of  Chinese bombers carrying their nuclear payloads have been spotted near  California. The  US Air Force scrambles again to pick them out.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **06:39 am** -  Chinese bombers have been picked out one by one, and since their escorts have been sent on one-way trips without fuel tankers, most escorting planes defect to the US without realizing that they are protecting a country that is no longer existent.
* Jan. 1, 2000 - **09:39 am** - Out of the 600 bombers sent to attack the  US, only 14  Chinese bombers return home, most of which are badly damaged.  China descends into Martial Law in an attempt to keep itself stable.  Russia has collapsed, and  India narrowly escapes the same fate, only to be destroyed in a coup. Most of the world has been simply wiped from existence, and most surviving countries are highly authoritarian.
* Jan. 2, 2000 - Several satellites crash into the earth, while the rest have been disabled. The world is declared "ended" by the remaining members of the  UN General Assembly in San Francisco, but nobody can hear them. At the same time, the world has a few countries remaining. However, the collapse of high-tech, developed countries has paved the way for the creation of empires born out of poor, underdeveloped countries.

## Causes and theories

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