THQ's Homefront 2/World Fiction

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## America Pre-Invasion

* Limited very expensive petrol
* Rationing
* Few cars
* Black-market
* More bikes/alternative transport/public transport
* Huge cost of public transport
* Implies huge cost of all goods as transport needed for everything
* A logical extension of this is alternative sources of power
	+ Solar cars
	+ Ethanol engines
	+ Horses, cattle etc to pull carts

* Economic Depression
	+ Huge Unemployment 30+%
	+ Many shops closed down
	+ Large queues for food
	+ Shortages
	+ Everything’s rundown
	+ Crime rates soar
		- Rich living in fortresses
	+ Billboards are blank and defaced
* Rise of online digital media
	+ Celebrity culture going strong
		- Replaces serious news in mainstream media
	+ Newspapers and magazines shut down

* Christianity resurgent
	+ Evangelists hugely popular
* Slums and homelessness for the poor

* All manufactured goods including the few new cars come from the far east, Korea and Japan
* Reduced military might
	+ Large assets like Carriers scraped
	+ Switched to autonomous vehicles and drones
* No National law enforcement, municipalities manage their own for better or worse – local laws vary from place to place, violent anarchy in some areas
* Migration to the cities and warmer regions, massive overcrowding in cities, abandoned suburbs in northern areas
* Deadly flu epidemics leave ghost towns in some areas, no national strategy to cope

## Timeline

* 2012 US suffers major economic downturn
	+ US withdraws forces from Iraq, Afghanistan and key strategic locations; aid to Israel ends
* US military changing nature, moving to a downsized light fast force with heavy automation and drone use
* 2013 US - Japan alliance collapses

**\*2013 North and South Korea Unify under leadership of Kim Jong-un**

* 2016-17 178,000 US citizens die from cold/exposure during winter. Stadiums and large venues become mass homeless shelters
* 2017 Basic US infrastructure begins to decay, highways are not maintained, national power grid breaks down, riots and looting nationally
* 2017 Great Arab War pushes petrol prices to incredible highs

**\*2018 Korea declares war on Japan, Japan surrenders**

* 2019 US military withdraws from almost all overseas bases, all major assets like Carriers scraped
* 2020 Martial law instituted in parts of US to control riots due to lack of food and goods
* 2020 Migration from the colder regions towards major cities and coasts. Cities hugely overcrowded while many towns and suburbs are abandoned
* 2020 Korean military upgraded with latest US, Japanese, Russian and Chinese technology
* **2021 Greater Korean Republic formed**
* 2021 “Knoxville Fever” a virulent strain of flu kills 6,000,000 Americans, some towns and cities completely wiped out
* **2023 Korean army exceeds 20,000,000 soldiers**
* **2024 Korea launches GPS satellite which is actually an EMP warhead**
* **2025 January 15th Korean agents detonate bombs on mass transit systems across the US**
	+ **January 15th - Korean cyber attack brings down computers of the Pentagon, Whitehouse, NSA, NORAD, FBI and CIA paralysing defence forces**
	+ **January 16th - EMP detonated over America destroying all unshielded electronics and shutting down power and communications nationwide**
	+ **January 18th - Korean troops capture Hawaii including the remains of the US navy at Pearl Harbour in surprise attack**
	+ **January 25th-30th - West coast cities captured by Korean forces**
	+ **January 27th - Paratroops dropped in all key cities all the way to the east coast**
* 2025
	+ November - DJ Ben begins broadcasting from Las Vegas
* 2026
	+ January 24th - Las Vegas bombed out of existence by Korean air force
	+ February - Mississippi river irradiated
	+ April 10th - first Voice of Freedom radio broadcast from Montrose
	+ November 11th – The Voice of Freedom (Walker) crosses the Mississippi into the East

## Factions

### Greater Korean Republic

* State of the art military using captured US technology and equipment as well as their own
* Occupying Key cities, military bases and areas of natural resources which they are exploiting
	+ Most of America is unoccupied however
* Use of drones and other hi-tech equipment
* They have working services like power, water, sanitation
* Institute martial law and slavery to achieve their ends
* Murder of civilians

### National Guard

* Cut off from any central command military units have retreated into the countryside to become a Guerrilla force
* Well trained with modern equipment but limited ability to maintain it and resupply
* No overall plan other than to resist

### Gangs

* Lawless gangs taking advantage of the breakdown in society
* Living hand to mouth on whatever they can steal
* Murdering civilians to take what they want
* Armed but not combat trained, may defend their turf against the Koreans

### Resistance

* People from all walks of life who have banded together to resist the occupation
* Have hidden bases but can also hide in plain sight amongst civilian population
* Have to steal equipment and supplies plus what they can repair and jury rig
* Moral dilemma in that attacking Koreans leads to massive reprisals against civilians

### Civilians

* People who are just trying to survive
* Won't fight unless forced to
* May be made to work for the Koreans

## Environmental Considerations

* **No power, running water, sanitation, gas supplies**
	+ Bodies pile up in the streets or are taken to mass graves or huge funeral pyres
	+ Fire required for illumination at night and heat
	+ Disease rampant, hospitals closed, medicine scarce
* **No electronics**
	+ Cars crashed and abandoned (what cars were still in use)
	+ Planes crashed
* Few shops, most are closed down
* Race riots leave their impact in graffiti and damage
* Signage
	+ Martial law
	+ Curfews
	+ Epidemic warnings
	+ Korean propaganda
	+ Rationing
* **Slums and homelessness**
	+ Stadiums as emergency camps
* Huge overcrowding in some cities, deserted suburbs in others
* Food and water are rationed and extremely valuable
* **Irradiated zone along the Mississippi**
* **Korean areas are total contrast with power and facilities**
	+ Drones and hi-tech equipment
* Slave labour
* **Salvaged machinery and technology, jury rigging**
	+ Alternatives to engines
* Defence of food, water, fuel, medicine, generators, radios, weapons, ammo and shelter as these are the most desirable items
* Fear of deadly flu epidemics returning
* Barter economy