Wow . . . a lot seems to have happened in 2002.
In La Fayette, Georgia, investigators discover a crematory selling corpses to an unidentified necromancer. After a harrowing battle, all contact is lost with the investigators and they are presumed killed. The necromancer and his undead servants, vanish.
Ryanair Flight 296 burst into flames upon landing at London’s Stansted Airport. Two members of IST London were at the airport for personal business and assisted in evacuating the plane. Only a single casualty occurred, an Irish man who survivors claim was where the fire started.
Switzerland officially joins the U.N. by a narrow margin.
A coup in Venezuela succeeds in deposing President Hugo Chávez. As the coup is an internal matter, IST Caracas only provides support and defense of civilian groups, and defending themselves when attacked. The US immediately recognizes the newly selected Pedro Carmona as the official interim President of Venezuela. Pedro Carmona asks the US for assistance in securing the country. The US sends several “all-volunteer” squads of metas and significant numbers of conventional forces to assist the now-pro-US regime. Rumors and accusations fly that the US CIA and Special Forces instigated and backed the coup.
The Colombian drug lords, now wary of a US puppet state next door, begins attacking Venezuelan borders with jugo victims. Colombian drug lords make inquiries about directly allying with The Exchange while hiring large numbers of metahuman mercenaries.
A Chinese Boeing 767, carrying refugees and defectors, crashes into Busan, South Korea. All 128 people on board are killed as are 93 more on the ground near the crash site. Investigation finds remains of a bomb mounted inside one of the wing fuel-tanks.
At the unveiling of the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn, Princess Margriet is killed by an unidentified suicide bomber.
The US officially withdraws from the U.N. and indicates its plan to construct new, ballistic missiles. U.N. agencies (including all US-based IST Embassies) are giving until the end of 2004 to leave the United States. The U.N. turns off all, remaining, U.N. reactors in the US. US reactors pick up the slack from the U.N. reactors going off line.
French President Jacques Chirac is assassinated by suicide bomber Maxime Brunerie. Investigators can find no bomb residue. Analysis of Brunerie’s few remains lead authorities to determine he was a metahuman.
A group of suicide bombers detonate in Bali’s nightclub district. More than eight-hundred people are killed and thousands more injured. The Blue Demon appears and hampers rescue workers. It is brought down by IST Bali.
Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture in Moscow and takes nearly a thousand civilians hostage. Because of a bungled rescue attempt, the rebels begin executing the hostages. The Blue Demon appears—only having been defeated days before—during the attempt and massacres hostages, rebels and rescuers alike. IST Moscow, already on site, manages to defeat the creature before too many other casualties are inflicted. The death toll reaches just over 1,000.
After a secret investigation of the Enron Corporation, US authorities discover the Enron board has been in the employ of The Exchange for decades. Countless documents and secrets about America’s fusion reactors had been leaked to hostile powers, and many flaws and problems with the reactors had been covered up. When Federal Agents, backed by official US super teams, move to arrest them, they destabilize American fusion reactors in Anchorage, Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Washington D.C.—the same cities where IST Embassies reside. Quick action by local ISTs manage to shut down all but the Washington D.C. reactor. With the assistance of NASA’s most powerful teleporter, Roger “Shunt” Evans, IST Washington D.C. is able to extricate the majority of the US Congress and Supreme Court and teleport them to Buckley AFB in Denver, Colorado before the Washington D.C. reactor goes critical and detonates. More than 10,000 people are killed in the explosion. Unsurprisingly, the Blue Demon appears in the ruins.
In La Fayette, Georgia, investigators discover a crematory selling corpses to an unidentified necromancer. After a harrowing battle, all contact is lost with the investigators and they are presumed killed. The necromancer and his undead servants, vanish.
Ryanair Flight 296 burst into flames upon landing at London’s Stansted Airport. Two members of IST London were at the airport for personal business and assisted in evacuating the plane. Only a single casualty occurred, an Irish man who survivors claim was where the fire started.
Switzerland officially joins the U.N. by a narrow margin.
A coup in Venezuela succeeds in deposing President Hugo Chávez. As the coup is an internal matter, IST Caracas only provides support and defense of civilian groups, and defending themselves when attacked. The US immediately recognizes the newly selected Pedro Carmona as the official interim President of Venezuela. Pedro Carmona asks the US for assistance in securing the country. The US sends several “all-volunteer” squads of metas and significant numbers of conventional forces to assist the now-pro-US regime. Rumors and accusations fly that the US CIA and Special Forces instigated and backed the coup.
The Colombian drug lords, now wary of a US puppet state next door, begins attacking Venezuelan borders with jugo victims. Colombian drug lords make inquiries about directly allying with The Exchange while hiring large numbers of metahuman mercenaries.
A Chinese Boeing 767, carrying refugees and defectors, crashes into Busan, South Korea. All 128 people on board are killed as are 93 more on the ground near the crash site. Investigation finds remains of a bomb mounted inside one of the wing fuel-tanks.
At the unveiling of the Man With Two Hats monument in Apeldoorn, Princess Margriet is killed by an unidentified suicide bomber.
The US officially withdraws from the U.N. and indicates its plan to construct new, ballistic missiles. U.N. agencies (including all US-based IST Embassies) are giving until the end of 2004 to leave the United States. The U.N. turns off all, remaining, U.N. reactors in the US. US reactors pick up the slack from the U.N. reactors going off line.
French President Jacques Chirac is assassinated by suicide bomber Maxime Brunerie. Investigators can find no bomb residue. Analysis of Brunerie’s few remains lead authorities to determine he was a metahuman.
A group of suicide bombers detonate in Bali’s nightclub district. More than eight-hundred people are killed and thousands more injured. The Blue Demon appears and hampers rescue workers. It is brought down by IST Bali.
Chechen rebels seize the House of Culture in Moscow and takes nearly a thousand civilians hostage. Because of a bungled rescue attempt, the rebels begin executing the hostages. The Blue Demon appears—only having been defeated days before—during the attempt and massacres hostages, rebels and rescuers alike. IST Moscow, already on site, manages to defeat the creature before too many other casualties are inflicted. The death toll reaches just over 1,000.
After a secret investigation of the Enron Corporation, US authorities discover the Enron board has been in the employ of The Exchange for decades. Countless documents and secrets about America’s fusion reactors had been leaked to hostile powers, and many flaws and problems with the reactors had been covered up. When Federal Agents, backed by official US super teams, move to arrest them, they destabilize American fusion reactors in Anchorage, Dallas, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York and Washington D.C.—the same cities where IST Embassies reside. Quick action by local ISTs manage to shut down all but the Washington D.C. reactor. With the assistance of NASA’s most powerful teleporter, Roger “Shunt” Evans, IST Washington D.C. is able to extricate the majority of the US Congress and Supreme Court and teleport them to Buckley AFB in Denver, Colorado before the Washington D.C. reactor goes critical and detonates. More than 10,000 people are killed in the explosion. Unsurprisingly, the Blue Demon appears in the ruins.