Project Survivor

The official symbol of Project Survivor

**Project Survivor** was a European humanitarian project developed by 37 countries in 2019 as a response to the Strike and the birth of Tamalon’s Great Storm. It was developed by NATO in order to preserve as much human life as possible before the storm hit the continent of Europe by developing Trimarcium-protected fortresses and Trimarcium-powered vessels, capable of keeping humanity alive for as long as three years, and to protect European governments and leaders that could re-establish society in Europe after the storm was over. It was the largest funded project in the world.

## Background

The project officially begun after the Strike occurred in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 3rd, 2018. Immediately following the conflict, the Core Five told the world to construct large, metal fortresses and rockets in order to preserve their country’s people as best as they could. The United States, being the epicenter of the Strike, was not well prepared for this event, and due to Washington’s proximity to Philadelphia, many important government leaders were killed. Canada also had very little time to prepare for the conflict, and many of their leaders were killed, although more survived than in the United States. Many western states were able to develop their own plans to preserve humanity and some did succeed, although the United States ultimately failed and the nation broke apart. Europe saw this outcome, and took strategic action as to not allow it to suffer the same fate. The storm travelled slower on water, so it was busy ravaging North and South America at the moment, but seeing the inevitable coming, NATO and the EU joined to develop Project Survivor, which was dedicated to preserving as much human life possible before the storm hit. With the help of the Core Five, who were previously helping America, Europe spent the majority of their funding building Survivor fortresses and Survivor rocket vessels powered by Trimarcium, the former to keep the storm away from humanity, and the latter to keep humanity away from the storm. Project Survivor had 36 countries join in to preserve humanity, and each one helped the others out with creating the fortresses and vessels. The Core Five’s Trimarcium-sensitive abilities allowed these construction projects to be completed faster before the storm arrived on the continent. After a month, citizens got their choice of preference about whether they wanted to remain in a fortress or go into a vessel, millions of citizens were put in separate fortresses and vessels all across Europe, while the storm crept ever closer. On November 1st, 2019, all fortresses were sealed off and all vessels were launched, concluding the project. The project ultimately proved successful in a number of ways. The secure locations had a survival rate of nearly 97%, and were able to preserve the global leaders for two years before the storm was dissolved by the Core Five in September of 2020.

## Aftermath

Following the storm, Europe was mostly abandoned, and the global leaders met to discuss reunification of the continent. Borders were set in place, and all of the nations involved in the crisis were re-established with the same borders they had originally been. However, there were many countries outside of the Survivor project that were essentially dissolved. Three of these places were Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, who all had plans in place, but failed in their execution to preserve humanity. As a result, the three countries were essentially abandoned, apart from a few lucky survivors who were able to seek shelter away from the storm. The Russian Federation, on the other hand, did have its own plans in place and was successfully re-established following the Storm’s dissolution. Seeing Belarus and Ukraine as abandoned, the Russian government annexed the two nations. Europe, fearing that Moldova would be next, gave Romania the go-ahead to annex it and make it a federal province.