The Snowstorm War

The Snowstorm War, known formally as Operation: Spearhead, was a unified human assault against the Song of Abolition during its' conquest of Asia. The battle was largely fought in Sakha, a region of Russia near Siberia, where the Song of Abolition had dropped an Argent Tower and begun to mobilize demons. The assault against the Song was a multi-stage attack: The first stage was comprised of a hit-and-run fighter assault against the Song itself, attempting to clear the airspace around the superweapon and take out major weapon platforms on the orb's surface and rings. The attack ultimately was considered a failure, although a tactical nuclear warhead fired directly into the underbelly of the vessel where its' airborne Drone Golem defenses were being dispatched largely cleared out enemy opposition, and cut a clear path-albeit small-for air transports in the second stage of the attack. Said second stage of the attack involved a massive human force of roughly 90 million soldiers and tens of thousands of tanks charging the demon lines, who numbered roughly 240,000,000. The Orb's defenses turned their focus to the human ground forces, giving way to stage three: A dedicated human task force, aided by the remaining pilots from stage one, launching a dedicated strike on one of the Orb's quantum gravitational engines, temporarily disabling it for long enough for a force of 80 strike helicopters carrying elite soldiers to make their way towards a maintenance deck and close a blast door, sealing the troops inside and marking the start of an attempt to take over the orb. Only Thirteen of these transports landed in tact before the engine reactivated, with a summary force of 143 commandoes infiltrating the orb. The Commandoes preceded deeper into the weapon with the goal of either hijacking or disabling it, and, upon navigating the twisting corridors of the vessel's interior, found themselves locked in combat with the three eldritch being seemingly responsible for the weapon's creation. The commando force was all killed by these Eldritch beings, with the exception of a few highly-trained warriors and faction leaders, who managed to escape just barely. The rest of the ground forces outside dueled with the Demonic forces, inflicting major casualties on the Demon assault force. However, the tide of the ground battle turned when a large cluster of human tanks and artillery batteries, engaged with hammering away at the Argent Tower in hopes of destroying it, were hit by a superpowered blast from the Song of Abolition, which decimated roughly ~60% of the entire human force in one blast, The remaining four hundred units retreated, with a force of six million Demons having survived the conflict. The remaining humans fled to the forested countryside nearby, but were gradually hunted down by the Demons. A force of 18,000 humans survived the conflict in total, mostly by taking shelter in bunkers, mines, and other underground facilities while the Demons began their march west.

In the aftermath of the war, various humans retreated towards Europe, taking shelter where they could and signaling for evacuation. Eventually a few dedicated units, roughly a hundred in total, would find a small airbase at Twilight Gap, a nearby Russian military station, and take several cargo planes and Mil Mi-8 helicopters all the way to Antarctica, where they had received intelligence that the Song of Abolition was largely unprotected, and where a UNSC military asset had been left behind that contained the power to crack the outer shell of the weapon. This operation, dubbed Operation: Last Hand, was a separate battle that led to the scattering of the Eldritch beings and the destruction of the Song of Abolition.