World War 3

The War was mostly decided long before it actually broke out.

20 Years prior to the war, the Second War of the Roses broke out in 2453, due to the King, King William the 23rd, having twins which could not agree on who claims the throne. The war lasted for months until Charles had pushed his brother, Frederic, back to North Ireland. In order to end the war and focus resources on the growing threat of the new proclaimed German Empire under Friedrich Wilhelm the 3rd von Hohenzollern, after the Polish Revolution, Lithuanian Revolution and the prior Prussian Revolution, Charles offered his losing brother a treaty which would give Frederic North Ireland and a guarantee of independence, which Frederic accepted. The now small country of North Ireland was vulnerable and it was quickly clear that the United Kingdom would not back them when they were attacked. The Irish Republic saw this as an opportunity to unify. They mobilised their army and used Blitzkrieg-strategies. The Kingdom of North Ireland had been defeated in 2 hours and Frederic was exiled to Germany. The German Emperor, who had been hoping for Frederic to win the Second War of the Roses, was outraged and met with Frederic. After 2 days of preparation, Germany launched an attack with their new BG-ME 527 fighters and disabled the irish navy before landing their troops at the beaches and paradropping the Moltke-Division in Dublin. With these rapid wars in Europe, the heart of civilisation at the time, and the UN powerless, many countries questioned the authority of the United Nations which led to an end for them which resembled the end of the "Völkerbund". Ireland capitulated in 23 minutes and 54 seconds. Frederic was proclaimed king of Ireland and Germany guaranteed their independence. The Germans also pressured the British and French to do the same, which succeeded due to these countries not wanting to risk a conflict with Germany after their recent demonstration of military power and skill.

The United States were torn between helping Germany or Ireland during these 24 minutes. The New England states demanded neutrality from the congress, while the rest wanted war, despite their recent loss against Canada, which had cost them Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. This destabilised the USA and many riots took place and street fights occurred in New England. The Kingdom of Ireland paid for the entirety of repairs in New England, leading to a large rise of popularity in that region. The now war hungry population of most of the country managed to pressure the government into invading Canada in an attempt to take the lost states back. During this war, General George Han from Vermont, has been promoted to Field Marshal due to exceptional competence. 3 hours after he assumed command over the military, Canada was forced to capitulate. The Netherlands were infuriated by the attack on Canada and, together with the other members of the Benelux-Treaty (Luxemburg, Belgium, the Republic of Alsace, the Duchie of Normandy), declared war on the United States. The war ended in a stalemate but America was left destabilised. With the pensioning of Han, the last bit of war hunger in New England was gone. These states organized and denied the Union any of their military. The Republic of Nowgorod and Siberia backed the Union's demands for the military. When the leader of this organisation (the New England Peacekeeping Treaty), William Ryckson, met with General Conan McHarrisson in the 11th Avenue of New York, the General took out a gun and shot Ryckson in the head, twice. The New England soldiers opened fire at the General's troops and forced the General to retreat outside the city. A few hours later, the president recieved a declaration of independence by the New England Peacekeeping Treaty, accompanied by a declaration of war. Texas saw this as an opportunity and declared independence as well. The president sent the armed forces immediately and they made progress in Texas quickly but the New England front was getting pushed back. Within hours, Ireland and Germany recognized New England as independent states and guaranteed their independence. Brittain was still bitter about the loss of North Ireland and began to deliver equipment to the United States. Germany saw this as a threat to New England and sent a message to the King that if he were to continue his deliveries, war would be the consequence.

"*Charles, continue to give the american barbarians weapons to end peace and I shall end your peace. To correct history and have the war to end all war*" - Emperor Friedrich Wilhelm the 3rd in his message.

The french saw this as a threat to their independence, because most of them asked themselves what were to stop Germany when Brittain was gone and only the french remained. They renewed the Triple Entente with Nowgorod joining their treaty. The Benelux-Treaty, which was supporting Texas, felt threatened and formed a coalition with Ireland against the United Kingdom and France.

The next morning (by european standard time), things escalated. The Republic of Kievan Rus' guaranteed the independence of Ireland. In response, France declared war on them. This led to the German Empire declaring war on France, which led to the rets of the Entente declaring war on Germany, which resulted in Germany's allies declaring war on the Entente. In the following 10 minutes, the world would be mostly split into two sides.

During the war, which was mostly military stalemates, Han managed to capture Washington DC and capitulated the United States. With Blitzkrieg-strategies, he then pushed all the way to Mexico-City, where Mexico capitulated. When the north american allies had captured the last enemy divisions in their territory, they set their sights on Iceland and Cuba. When they wanted to help their allies, they needed to defeat those two before crossing the atlantic. After a few days, Cuba and Iceland capitulated and Canada landed troops in Bordeaux and Cornwall. Nowgorod knew that they were loosing and ordered the usage of nuclear weapons to destroy Germany and Canada. As the nukes were being launched, every nuclear power ordered the usage of their warheads as well. After 3 months of more war, earth had gone mostly uninhabitable. The last remaining people in europe, were military divisions, the rest had gone to space, after Arthur Harris had made his first flight to the next spiral arm. 25 hours before the war ended, the German-Irish Pact retreated their troops to New York, followed closely by the Entente troops. The Pact's troops had little time to set up defensive positions before the Entente landed their troops along the coast. Their primary target was the stationary artillery canon in the 11th Avenue. General McHarrisson led his troops to this avenue where his remaining troops, 127 soldiers, fought against the entrenched troops of Field Marshal Han, 36 soldiers. Han won and McHarrision was captured. On the 3rd of April 2473, McHarrission was forced to sign a peace treaty. Then, Han shot him in the head. This battle would later be known as the 20 minute battle. Of the 23.526.272 soldiers with which the battle had begun, only 22 had survived.

The war is estimated to have had 3.726.000.000 casualties. Exact numbers are unknown.