World War III

**World War III** (2028-2053) as a major global conflict that was fought between the Democratic Powers, the Revisionist Powers, the Collective Powers and various terrorist organisations. The war was defined by the use of cyber warfare, nuclear cataclysm, sub-orbital warfare, electronic warfare, the use of AI, robotic warfare and conventional warfare. The war also involved the near-total destruction of Asia and Europe, the fragmentation of Africa, the reorganization of the United States of America into the Federal Republic of America, the establishment of the United States of Europe and the Reunification of India. The Third World War also saw space warfare as well as cyber warfare, nuclear cataclysm, in addition to eco-terrorism, malefeo-terrorism, multiple genocides and geopolitical reorganisation, including the first wave of colonists arriving in Antarctica. In the years following the Third World War; the Global Renaissance which began in 2053 with the signing of the Peace Treaty of Mackinac Island and the Ottawa Treaty on the Reconciliation of Nations.

## Original

The Third World War would begin with multiple issues and root causes of autocratization of democratic countries, racial profiling, ethnic supremacy, immigration laws, religious fundamentalism, sorcerer and superhuman supremacy, climate change, wealth inequality, corporate greed, the aftermath of the NORID-19 pandemic and human epigenetic regulation. The aftermath of a Pandemic of an extraterrestrial pathogen was the key factor in destabilising world peace. World peace was already battered since the 1980’s due to multiple crises; three alien invasions, the Augmentation Crises of the 1990’s and 2010’s. The war began with the assassination of US President Robert Howen in 2028 at the height of the US election season and the Chinese encroachment of Soviet allIes of Mongolia and (former North Vietnam) and the American allies of (former South Vietnam) and Taiwan. The Second American Civil War which began in 2026 took place two years before the Third World War. And it occurred contemporaneously because of the effects. The war left approximately 350 million people dead with Afro-Eurasia bearing the most brunt of the casualties. In addition to long term damages to infrastructure caused by both electronic and cyber attacks, in addition to space warfare. Nuclear cataclysm devastated many parts of Europe, Middle East and Asia with attacks on the North American continent as well. South America, Australasia and Africa fared far less nuclear attacks compared to others. Asia was severely destroyed by the war which left fewer governments left. Many governments in Africa collapsed due to war related famines, diseases, climate change related disasters induced by the temporary effects of global cooling caused by nuclear war. Prior to World War III, a scientist named John Lazarus Turner escaped a Federal raid on a laboratory in Bucket Rock, Arizona. Where 223 researchers were arrested for having conducted illegal experiments on deceased and living human and augmented subjects. Kicking off the Augmentation Crises which lasted for 22 years; lasting from 1988 to 2010. This also resulted in three botched alien invasions that occurred concurrently in the Wars of 1990, 2003 and 2015 respectively. Most of the augmented and engineered subjects led by Saddam Hussein and Tamar Bozorg, fled into space via abandoned alien spacecraft that were left stranded from millennia ago. Though O’Higgels was defeated by the Green Wizard in 2010 after a physically corrupted school aged student escaped from juvenile hall tore through Washington, D.C. on October 18, 2010. Resulting in a failed plot by O’Higgels sympathisers to overthrow the American government. Further global stability was further eroded by the 2013-2014 Phankir Infiltrations, which were the kidnapping of 1,058 Terrestrials in the name of a search for a fugitive empath Kuis Alouia the Ab-Oularian. Tensions further escalated when an elite team of superhumans staged a rescue mission that saw the suicide of Maldeticulous. He made it appear to look like he was killed by hostile forces. This prompted Bruticus to stage his own invasion of the planet. He sent himself and his forces to the Sol system in a ten month voyage to wreak havoc upon the Earth. By December of 2015, Bruticus was defeated by the Green Wizard and killed in the Battle of Toronto. This battle marked the final appearance of the Green Wizard before disappearing from public eye for good.

## Aftermath

And continued well into the 2160’s with the Post-War Trauma lasting into 2110. Which led to the Retrocession of the 1848 Cession Territories to Mexico and the signing of the America-Mexican Treaty on the Final Resolution of Animosity. The aftermath of World War III saw the beginning of the Space Race, the Great Liberalisation, Arabia’s abolition of the death penalty in 2110; making it the last sovereign country to do so. However, only a few semi-stable governments in Africa remained. South Africa also collapsed due to ethnic tensions and corruption. The reunification of Algeria was achieved as well as the establishment of the Dialogue for the Promotion of the Unification of Africa which came a century later.