WWDE

The Worlds Worst Day Ever or WWDE is a key pivotal point in the timeline for the Kurthurian Gambit.

Most timeline references are WWDE - *x* years or WWDE + *x* years

## Prior to the WWDE

This is the bulk of human history up to current day, Bethany Anne's transformation is estimated to be in a post 9/11 world.

Although the years are never completely referenced, there is a reference to terrorist attacks in Paris which occurred November 13th 2015, and the change of presidents within the books seems to have occurred roughly around the time of Barack Obama leaving the Whitehouse and Donald Trump starting his presidency, additionally the attitude of the two presidents in the book seems to be somewhat reflective of the administrations.

The text at the start of World's Worst Day Ever covers the Missile firing on the G’laxix Sphaea and takes place 3 years prior to the WWDE

*Conjecture*

The assumption is that the etheric empire used the Annex gate approximately late 2018, early 2019.

based on this I think the WWDE is around 2023

 *end of conjecture*

During Forever Defend, Bethany Anne makes a comment about earth not even managing to last 10 years.

## WWDE

The majority of evidence points to WWDE being triggered by General Li of China as an act of revenge for the death of his son and wife. The Americans had fired missiles at the G’laxix Sphaea as it was leaving Earth. The defensive systems on the ship destroy the missile but the debris contains plutonium and falls to the Chinese coast. He believes the Americans have the cure for cancer but refused to share it.

He unleashed a computer virus that essentially bricked all of the world's networked electronics due to the mass use of Chinese chips. His expectation was it would only impact the United States but the unpredictable nature of internet traffic caused it spread worldwide including to China which had supposed its own firewalls would protect it.

Initially other nations were unaware of the source but fail-safes in nuclear enabled nation's defense systems started firing missiles at pre-determined targets across the globe. Once China was known as the source remaining nuclear weapons were trained on China reducing Hong Kong and Beijing as well as most major cities in China to radioactive craters.

The global GPS system went off line. Planes already in the air were unable to determine their flight paths and went down.

## After the WWDE

What. A. Mess.. Devastation varied across the world:

* Networked electronics across the world are for the most part non-functional and need to be rebuilt from scratch. What wasn't killed by the virus were wiped out by the nuclear/EMP explosions. The exceptions are systems left by Bethany Anne including the satellite system Akio uses to watch world activities.
* In addition to the nuclear destruction the worldwide supply network of resources is destroyed leaving the remaining enclaves dependent on only the resources they have locally.
* Most if not all of the safety systems and chemical and refinery plants were computer controlled and as those systems failed toxic chemicals flowed into the world's waterways and lands.
* As the seasons changed to cold and advanced across the globe, populations plummeted from starvation, thirst, and lack of medical support. In some areas disease wiped out as much as 97% of the human population. In total, by 20 years after WWDE 87% of all humans are dead.
* There is major weather changes with the US great plains, Africa, parts of China and Australia becoming significantly more arid.
* A lot of Canada suffered like the rest of the world, but what remained became warmer and, in fact, quite lovely. The people, so used to their free health care and other benefits of old, went a bit crazy once the government collapsed, and what you have now is a hodge-podge of different nationalities who’ve taken up in Toro (Toronto), if the pirate lord will have them.
* In England, the Old Ox boasted relative safety on what had previously been the university campus, as it was now set up like a fortress.
* In China, Beijing and Hong Kong had been reduced to bombed-out wastelands. Many of the largest cities were uninhabitable nuclear wastelands, occupied only by the ghosts of the millions who had lived and died within them. The rural and farming areas were spared the bombs, but without the support they depended on from the cities, manufactured goods—and more importantly, medicines—were in short supply. That had led to the deaths of millions more. The people of rural China had always felt they were apart from the people in the cities, able to sustain themselves. The truth was that the Chinese government had made the whole country interdependent. They had managed to weed out the knowledge of home cures and the basic survival skills the people living outside of the cities had possessed in earlier generations. Even almost a quarter-century later, the mortality rate in the rural areas was still high from disease and the lack of infrastructure.
* The best depiction of a post WWDE United States comes from the Terry Henry Walton Chronicles, and Rise of Magic. It depicts the world in a Fallout-esq wasteland with settlements and raiders. Technology is a mishmash of modern and earlier ages. Cities took the brunt of the chaos, and are generally dangerous places.
* Finland, Sweden, Lativa and Estonia were left relatively intact.
* A central government survived in Russia The Boris Chronicles tells of the activities of Boris and his son Olaf in creating safe enclaves while working with the surviving Scandinavian and Baltic nations.
* The protections Bethany Anne put into place for Japan in exchange for a safe place for her people had ensured that there were no attacks there. When the nuclear missiles started flying, they were destroyed well before any targeting Japan got close. Thanks to that protection it was now the most modern country left in the world.  Japan still suffered from the destruction of electronics, tsunamis, earthquakes and loss of the worldwide supply line for critical resources (metals, fuels, food, medicines, etc.).
* A number of Weres and Vampires survived. Some aligned with the remaining humans while others knowing Bethany Anne and Michael were no longer a threat began to prey on the local humans. Many do not know Michael's scriptures have been superseded by Bethany's allowing them to be known and work with humans. However as depicted in Age of Madness books the nanocytes Bethany Anne seeded across the world become corrupted where Weres cannot transform and Vampires go insane.

## References

1. ↑ Morris, Jeff; Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. World’s Worst Day Ever (p. 9). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Morris, Jeff; Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. World’s Worst Day Ever (p. 10). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Tillman, Charles; Anderle, Michael. Akio Revelations Complete Series Omnibus (p. 12,355). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Morris, Jeff; Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. World’s Worst Day Ever (p. 24). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Morris, Jeff; Martelle, Craig; Anderle, Michael. World’s Worst Day Ever (p. 12). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
6. ↑ Sloan, Justin; Anderle, Michael. The Reclaiming Honor Omnibus (Books 1-8): A Kurtherian Gambit Series (p. 464). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
7. ↑ Sloan, Justin; Anderle, Michael. The Reclaiming Honor Omnibus (Books 1-8): A Kurtherian Gambit Series (p. 33). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
8. ↑ Tillman, Charles; Anderle, Michael. Akio Revelations Complete Series Omnibus (pp. 356-357). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
9. ↑ Middleton, Paul C.; Anderle, Michael. Boris Chronicles: Books 1-4 (p. 389). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.
10. ↑ Tillman, Charles; Anderle, Michael. Akio Revelations Complete Series Omnibus (pp. 12-13). LMBPN Publishing. Kindle Edition.