The Great Pacific Disaster

The Great Pacific Disaster was a cataclysmic event that rocked the Pacific West Coast of North America, as well as large spans of Eastern Asia and Oceania’s islands. It effectively marked the end of The Bloodbath, and began the aftermath, of the apocalypse by, ironically, being one.

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The Pacific Disaster was caused directly by the actions of rogue Crinsonisn Utah elements, who, in an attempt to gain sentiment and military aid from the moralistic country of Northam to Utah’s east, deployed high-yield nuclear warheads into the Mariana Trench and Yellowstone National Park, effectively igniting the entire Ring of Fire. The events were blamed on Winter Frostmoon, who was forced to go into exile. Disaster ensued.

## Lead-up (rough draft)

In the Fall of AB 1, a major Crimsonian political representative revolted against the leaders of Utah, splitting the nation in two. Though the revolution worked in the man’s favor in the civil war’s early weeks, the South quickly gained ground, pushing the North’s armies back to their last major military strongholds. In the ensuing deadlock, Crustaru amassed the roughly twenty nuclear intercontinental warheads at his disposal, and came up with a plan.

As Winter’s forces moved to take Salt Lake City, Crustaru and his men surrendered after what felt like an all-too-east battle for the South. As Winter and her elite forces moved to personally secure the major nuclear silos controlled by the North, however, the North ordered rogue Southern troopers to betray Winter, and locked down the facility. Sedative gas seeped through the facility’s air ducts, knocking out Winter before she could radio for assistance. The rogue troops launched the warheads, targeting the major areas of Yellowstone National Park and the Mariana Trench. The entire incident was framed to seem like Winter ordered the attack, and the people of Utah from both sides allied with the north. However, though Utah was spared from the carnage, the events that ensued spelt damnation for the entire Pacific.

## Aftermath

With the Pacific Coast in ruins, Northam largely evacuated from the west, though monitored the situation in Wyoming. The Pacific Coast surged with energy for roughly the next month, and acid rainstorms pelted the region. The sun was largely blocked out during that time as well, and most agriculture in California and western Oregon died out. Miraculously, Portland and most regions northeast were largely spared the damage, and became a rallying point for refugees.

The Dustlands of Nevada and Arizona and these refugees would eventually form the American Southwestern Pacific States, emerging into California in a pseudo-military campaign. There they found the San Andreas Fracture, as well as Cordium. Over the next 2 months the fallout of the Disaster mostly subsided, though the Pacific Fractures remained immense geothermal hotspots. Life began to return to normal thanks to terraforming efforts, and the Pacific’s military began to form.

The Yellowstone Crater and surrounding regions was later colonized by Northam, who used it as a source of geothermal energy; nevertheless, the Pacific States were generally better at Cordium's mining.

Eastern Asia’s coast was catastrophically decimated, with most of Japan having sunk during the tsunamis that ensued. Though some damage was reversed through Kyotian super spells, most remains damaged to this day.

The creation of Homines Infernum in Oceania was a shock to most of the remaining world, and the Pacific Islanders who had been living in the regions now enveloped by the continent fled to Northwest Australia, which was mostly devoid of Demons.

the foundation of the Cordium Age was a new chapter for mankind, and most major players in the Pacific regions scrambled for a claim of the new sub-continent.