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Welcome to the Red Dusk wiki! This is a place where I'll continue to expand on the world I've built with more and more lore, a place where wiki members are free to come up with their own short stories, TTRPG campaigns or lore entries taking place in the world of Red Dusk.

## Setting Summary

Red Dusk aims to be a medium of telling stories generally focused around a dark alternate universe where the Soviet Union survived the Cold War and not only that, but it would soon expand its influence over the European continent and the rest of the world as the United States of America was being methodically dethroned from its place as an important superpower by forces within and without, soon leading to the nation facing severe internal political strife.

Terrorist attacks and armed insurrections became an almost daily occurance in the quickly collapsing supernation, eventually leading to the country needing to take drastic measures, especially following the disaster of 11th September 2001, seeing the World Trade Center spires being detonated by a highly organized terrorist cell, said to have been potentially trained by Soviet Union, thus putting a metaphorical end to the age of American capitalism.

Terribly defeated - and faced with a long-lasting economic recession, the United States were in a state of complete turmoil, though not alone. Fearing the prospect of a potential Soviet invasion, the president of the United States of America launched a campaign of fearmongering, a campaign which attempted to bring all states of the American continent together against the Soviet Terror. At the same time, the state saw a brutal shift away from the state the American forefathers had imagined. All political parties were abolished and the presidential terms greatly expanded to a generous ten years, leading the USA in an age of pseudo-autocracy, where the Congress' main task was shifted to that of upholding - or otherwise prematurely ending - presidential terms.

The campaign led by the USA was deemed to be succesful, as soon enough the comradery between Mexico, Canada and the United States gave birth to a defensive and economic alliance known as APF or The American Protection Front. With the help of the other two nations and the brutal measures taken against political uprising, the United States now held a firm grip upon its own economy and borders and would begin acting on an international scale, finding new trading partners in the unoccupied parts of the European Mainland and the Middle East.

This American revival was not met without response by the Soviet Union, though, as the two launched serious threats of war or total annihilation and were soon backed up by the reality of, albeit much less threatening, proxy wars across the Middle East, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, Italy and the Balkans, greatly destabilizing the regions, though with final American phyrric victories across most of these conflicts, now beginning to secure the Americans a real hold back into the international theatre.

Despite fierce tension and frequent border conflicts between the two nations, the status quo remained for the better part of a decade. Despite the Soviets now trying to negociate the departure of American troops from the European Mainland and the, rather optimistic, establishment of a fully demilitarized zone in the Balkans, the United States of America had not forgotten the decades of shame brought by the end of the Cold War and had been preparing to establish themselves as the world's sole power.

Thus, what is now called the Great Invasion, occured. On the 13th of January 2036, the United States launched an unannounced attack upon the Soviet Union and its allies, utilizing the atomic power at its disposal to knock out several strategic keypoints across the frontline, a terrible and feared tactic previously used by both sides, in this age devoid of ethics. It is safe to be said that a large quantity of the casualties of the Great Invasion occured in the first few months of conflict, with hundreds of thousands dead only within the first day, followed by millions more as the two nations launched tactical warheads and vicious assaults across the European theatre.

A couple of months later, the Americans managed to push across Bulgaria and the southern and eastern side of Romania, soon threatening Ukraine, all the while troops in the Caucasus barely managed to make progress due to dire conditions and logistical issues. In Western Europe, the troops in Iberia held on, while the Alps were deemed to be some of the most deadly warzones in the world, partly due to the natural conditions, yet also because of the vicious back-and-forth assaults that took place there.

Despite numerous American victories on the European front, the Middle Eastern front was met with multiple military failures and a situation of a delayed defeat, as Soviet troops took key locations all across the region and either overwhelming or crippling American oil production. The American push into France was short-lived, as the US troops only managed to get a glimpse of the Eiffel Tower before soon beginning to be pushed back hard, with multiple divisions going MIA in a chaotic retreat. A similar situation faced the Balkan front, where a massed Soviet offensive cut off a significant amount of American forces, trapping them in Eastern Romania, Moldova and parts of Ukraine. The European front was quickly collapsing, though it was not without great loss at the hands of the Soviets, as they faced heavy armed ressistance in their reconquered territories at the hands of US operatives, remnants of the scattered divisions.

With the Americans organizing a full retreat, the war was soon to be over, with many American troops remaining trapped in the European Mainland despite the efforts. With the European front fully collapsed, the Middle Eastern one followed a very quick descent into chaos aswell, with the US army containing its efforts in sabotaging their former holdings, adopting a scorched earth tactic, leaving behind key US operatives tasked with maintaining a costly guerilla war in the region for the Soviets.

*Only a couple months after the Great Invasion, the Soviet Union retaliated against the United States of America, following multiple naval battles in the Atlantic and a succesful invasion of Panama by the USSR. Soon, the Soviets used a newly occupied Cuba as a staging point for a naval invasion into the American Mainland, faced with resisstance from American National Guard, Canadian Armed Forces and the Mexican Army - the latter two of which hadn't joined the Great Invasion initially on the principle of considering the action an unprovoked war of aggression. Despite facing heavy ressistance and plenty of logistical issues, the massed might of the Soviet army still managed to make its way through New York City in the chaotic and extremely deadly urban warfare that ensued. The use of tactical nukes was not out of the ordinary on this front either, as the Americans would soon learn upon the nuking of Washington DC, dealing a terrible strike to APF morale and dealing catastrophic damage among the civillian populace. It seemed that the American warfront was a terribly costly affair, though...*

*Threatened by civil uprising in member republics of the Soviet Union, the USSR invasion halted to a crawl. The US National Guard, springed up by the hope of regaining the lost parts of the Eastern Coast, began methodically dismantling the Soviet Army, followed by blitz assaults in key weakpoints which routed the reds out of American soil. With both sides suffering devastating losses in materiel and populace, they agreed to a truce, in the end accomplishing naught much but the ravaging of Mainland Europe, Northern Africa and the Middle East.*

The year is 2087 - 47 years after the signed truce. The Great Invasion has marked the world irreversibly. The United States of America acted upon the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction, permanently scarring the USSR at the cost of its own people in an act of revenge for which hundreds of millions of souls had to be sacrificed. The "Bear" and the "Eagle" are both now in terrible states of decay, desperately trying to hold onto the power they once posessed. Megacorporations crept up in the American mainland, seizing power from the state through cloak and dagger politics and on certain occasions even splitting off into micro-nations, all acting for their own benefit. The Soviet landscape is likewise chaotic. The control that the Union once displayed upon its holdings is terribly fickle now and banditry, armed uprisings, aggressive private militaries and extremist parties are daily occurances, leading to further bloodshed on European soil. The Soviet 'wildlands' as they are called represent the areas within Soviet territory that lack proper control - those usually being rural lands or on some occasion smaller cities. Life in the USSR has only advanced onwards in the larger cities - Moscow, Sankt Petersburg, Kiev, Warszaw - they represent the only safe havens left where the Red Army is still fully operational and upgraded to modern standards, while the rest have to deal with decades old - sometimes century old equipment.

***The future holds no hope, for it was all washed away in atomic fire. Man lives on from day to day, only awaiting the world's demise. Know that Earth did not die gloriously... it dimmed out with a whimper.***

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