2047 Oil War

# The Oil War of 2047

The 2047 Oil War, publicly known as the 2047 Terror War, or according to classified documents, Operation Gaslight was a war that started in 2047 in response to depleting gasoline and fossil fuels being experienced by the United States. It was slowly coming to a close during OverShadowed's events.

## 2047 Oil War

### Participants

United Nations vs Middle Eastern terrorists

## 2047

In the years prior to 2047, the United States was experiencing a severe drought of fossil fuels. All attempts to create environmentally friendly electric vehicles were for the most part, a failure and the money being invested to make improvements was little to none, not to mention that the brand of electric vehicles being offered that were reliable were pricey.

States that were greatly known to extract oil were laying off their employees because there wasn't enough money to keep those oil fields open and nationwide, the prices for gasoline skyrocketed beyond belief. Protests were occurring, including violent ones against the government's failure to prepare for an event that could possibly halt society and a crisis that was foreshadowed decades prior. In a desperate attempt to solve rising problems, the US government secretly sent out military to the Middle East to covertly extract oil under the guise of "rising terroristic threats."

This is when the war actually started.

### Occupation of the Middle East

With the help of the Center of Information Acquisition (the CIA) to cover up this operation, the United States had Marines go on top-secret classified operations to extract oil from the Middle East, sometimes doing recon on terrorist groups. Meanwhile, the countries of the Middle Eastern had their officials asking that the US leave, as there was no "terroristic issue to worry about." The United States insisted that they stay, none of the officials liked this, as it felt that the United States was here for a reason, organizing a United Nations conference to discuss about it further, one that would be taking place in a month so the US had to take matters into their own hands.

On the day of scheduled conference at the UN arrived, an apparent suicide attack and terroristic shooting took place at the United Nations, killing important people of the UN, notably murdering more Americans than others. 13 people were injured in the bombing and 27 people were killed by the shooters. Now to the United States, if the UN agreed that this should trigger Article 5, they would now have an excuse to be there, but the United Nations was instead on "high alert," closely monitoring extremist groups for some time until another attack would happen a month later.

### The Explosion

A scheduled pro-league American football game between the Houston Gunslingers and Seattle Seagles was playing live on national television, everything going accordingly until an explosion detonates in the nosebleeds of the stadium creates panic, the players run off the field and police begin to evacuate everyone in the stadium which is where the second part of the attack occurs.

#### The Massacre

As people start to leave the stadium in a crowded bunch, terrorist's vehicles nearby the stadium's exits and entrances outside exit with light machine guns and open fire on civilians as well as law enforcement. For 3 solid minutes, terrorists killed as many people as they could before armored FBI STOP (Special Tactics and Operations Program) units arrived to dispatch the attackers. 80 people were badly wounded from the explosion, 21 were killed and in the shooting that took place outside, roughly 400 people were injured and 200 people were killed before police backup arrived. The United States and the UN, now angered by this, agree to enact Article 5 against terrorist groups, To the public, this is where the war started.

## 2048- Early 2049

Throughout the course of 2 years, under the impression of an unprovoked attack, American allies (like the United Kingdom) assisted in fighting terrorist organizations, some wins and some losses, but it wouldn't change the outcome of how the war would end in regards to the US. A brutal long assault was decimating extremist groups and in an effort to make the war all for nothing, contingency plans by terrorists were taking place against oil extraction plants as the UN grew closer to wiping out terrorists and by the time the United Nations claimed victory, the last oil field was destroyed.

## Post War

While the United States had high hopes of winning the war (which they did) they had also prepared for society to collapse, so during 2048, the government was funding major car manufacturers to create efficient and reliable electric vehicles, one's that were capable of charging as quickly as it would take to fill a sedan with gasoline with a pump. Had this not done, the United States would have been in an even more terrible position, but the money used to fight in the war was slowly being recovered after a soon global push to slowly ban gasoline powered items and American auto manufacturers sold their cars around the world for cheaper prices.

As of 2052, there are very little gasoline powered cars remaining.