Source Book 2: The Fall Of Europe

This source book contains information regarding the fall of Europe in this universe.

## History & Information

#### Background

The 2000s were known as a period of great prosperity for some parts of the world, however many parts were not so lucky. In Europe, Russia reclaimed most territory that had once been part of the Soviet Union, reforiming the Union in 2006. In Asia, there was a split between Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand being joined into an alliance called the Pacific Asian Union (P.A.U.) and China, and North Korea, as well as China conquering Mongolia in 2007 became the Eastern People’s Republic (E.P.R.). Due to rising consumption for teleportation resources, natural resources on earth began to deplete as the world became more polluted and over populated. Corporations seizing monopolies meant putting a stranglhold on communities, starving entire countries to famine, and eventually the mass migration from said countries. Many countries in Asia, Eastern Europe either became locked in civil war or were deplted of their resources by more powerful countries. These countries taking resources from others led to war and after war eventually, known as the Resource Wars from 2010-2017.

### The Resource Wars (2010-2017)

In 2010, Russia went to war with China after the Russian president was assassinated by Chinese operatives at his home in Moscow. Adding on to a list of growing tensions and talks of invasion by Russia. This war became massive, engulfing most of asia and europe in the fireball. Around the same time, The United States experienced its second Civil War, over radical right wing sepratists, wanting out of the union. While asia and europe burned to the ground, the us split. The south became its own union, the The Confederte States, the west coast became the West Coast Republic and the rest remained as the New United States. In 2017, Russia launched nuclear warheads, whcih landed in several parts of asia, leaving it and the middle east uninhabitable, and leading to the deaths of millions. Following the war, Russia took over almost all of europe. When there is a big power though, someone wants to rebel against it, however the first rebellion was brutally crushed for several years, and the war ended. For now.

The federation walled off the remaining european cities and their cities as the wastelands became more abundant, and the lack of resources forces people out of the countrysides into larger cities. By 2019 all cities left in Europe were walled in, with guards and large patrols controlling every vehicle that entered and left the city, checking them for contraband. Outside the cities it proved dangerous. Deadly gangs, paramilitary groups, environmental hazards such as acid rain and a toxic smog which began appearing across europe around 2020. The pollution and useage of eaths natural resources had become so bad and unhealthy that some days it was rendered unsafe to go outside. The cities filled with smog and gloom, by 2021 scientists in europe were able to fully develop cloned artificial food replacements. Around 2023, groups of rebel soldiers began ambushing patrols in the wasteland. Officers going missing during missions. Soldiers setting out only to never return. The federation began investigating into these soldiers and who they were. Over the next three years, the resistance grew in size, reaching a point where certain areas were avoided by Federation patrols due to high resistance presence in the area. Leaving the cities became more and more complicated, as the Federation focused on its military might and taking over of europe, leaving almost no trace of former locations left, decimating cities and repurposing them for their own uses. At first they had promised a better life for people, but were now simply putting the people of europe under an authoritarian rule. Strict guidelines were imposed as a system of brainwashing teqniquews and propaganda began circulating around 2025. The world around changed drastically too, the seas dried up, natural resources became more and more scares. Forcing yet again another shift towards harnessing the power of inner planetary travel.