CS Ever Given

> "It all looked like something from a medieval painting. All of their bodies were jammed into each other. Everyone became one." - Howard Melrose
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The CS Ever Given was one of the world's largest cargo ships owned by the Japanese company Shoei Kisen Kaisha. It had a length of 399.94 meters (1,312 ft 2 in). On March 23, 2021, it became lodged between the walls of the Suez Canal, causing a major blockage. Two weeks later, the US government, per the request of the Egyptian Government, authorized the use of nuclear force to dislodge the ship.

## The Crab

### Dislodging the Ever Given

On April 10, 2021, The US government dropped a nuclear device off the coast of Suez, Egypt. The waves created by this device spun the Ever Given, dislodging it from the canal. After being dislodged, the Even Given stood up, turned, and began walking, taking a path straight through Egypt.

### The Suez Canal Crab

The Ever Given sprouted ten legs and began its path through Egypt. It slowly made its way through Egypt until reaching Cairo, where it stumbled and crashed to the ground, killing an estimated 1,150 people. Any survivors near the crab were placed into quarantine chambers in fear of potential contamination from the crab. The bodily fluids leaking from the crab caused the ground around it to become slippery. The Egyptian government created a three-mile exclusion zone around the crab in an attempt to keep the area safe.

## Finder's Keeper's Day

### ADA Initiative

On April 17th, the ADA created a post on TWTTR stating that the American people had been robbed and needed to travel to Cairo to reclaim their lost property from the fallen Crab. Overnight, 12,000 American citizens booked flights to Egypt.

#### The Stampede (Entrance)

At 12:00 PM, the 12,000 Americans gathered at the gates of the Cairo Exclusion Zone, ready to reclaim their "stolen" goods. A group of 4,000 Egyptian law enforcement officers and soldiers stood guarding the exclusion zone. At 12;03 PM, an American opened fire and shot an Egyptian officer in the head. Chaos then ensued. A wave of injuries and death followed, with many people suffering from concussions and broken bones. Most notable among deaths was a gunfight between 14 assailants, including armed children.

#### The Stampede (Exit)

As dying organisms usually do, the Crab twitched its leg, causing panic among a crowd of people, eventually leading to a stampede. By 1:33 PM, the screams of the panicked crowd could be heard from 5 miles away. As crowds moved closer to the fence, they realized they couldn't leave. The Ministry of Health had given the order to keep any American that remained within the exclusion zone. Bodies were crushed as Americans threw themselves at the metal bars of the exclusion zone's gates in an attempt to escape. By 7:15 PM, any person within half a mile of the gates had been crushed. At 8:00 PM, the zone's gates were opened and any survivors were searched for. Out of the 12,000 that originally visited Cairo, 944 remained. 77 claimed a deity told them they would survive if they praised the crab—this later lead to the formation of the Church of the Ever Given, formed in the hospital the group of 77 stayed in.