A Grand Conclusion
"The Cold War was an era of totalatarianism on both sides, however this ruthless competition sped up technological advancement quite a bit. The Space race went to Mars, with both groups establishing Lunar outposts, though the Communists triumphed here with nearly 150 000 inhabitants on the Moon when the Second World War rolled around. For weapons nukes were stockpiled as well as chemical weapons, however it was germ warfare that got the nastiest. Both the Communist Gulags and Canadian Internment Camps saw horrors conduct upon political dissidents sent there, while the Americans would use slaves, the Japanese pretty well anyone not Japanese in there empire, and the Europeans certainly weren't much better.
"Fear of invasion lead every neutral power apart from Colombia to pick a side, along with Portugal eventually joining the Kingdom of Europe. Life was miserable on both sides, though the Provincial Canadians, Japanese and White Americans lived a mostly decent life it still wasn't much better than one could expect during a total cold war. Over the course of the Cold War the only actaul combat was between Canada and Chile when it's people kick out a pro-Canadian dictator, this result in tens of thousands dead and the nation annexed. Certain Colonies did manage to get up to Province status though when they proved themselves determined enough.
WWII began out of a Canadian panic. They discovered a virus that had the potential to wipe out all humanity fairly easy, however their spies reported that the Communists weren't too far behind so they rushed innoculations of their citizens (provincial and colonial) claiming it to be against some flu in India that had just been discovered. As soon as this was complete they released the Final Virus. By the time their enemies (and allies) realised what happened 70% of their populations were dead. The Canadians were able to take out the Communist nuclear and chemical facilities due to years of planning, but the USA, Japanese and EK were quicker to launch than they had expected, thus despite the SDI defenses millions died in the nuclear barrage. The US also decided to charge headlong into the nuclear and toxic wasteland to attempt to capture anything that was left in an attempt to defeat their old enemies.
"Then the Communist Dead Hand plague first began to kill. It had a incredibly long incubation period, it had actually been released about three days before the Final Virus, despite what they told you. Unlike the Canadians the Soviets had been even more in a rush and had only innoculated some of their population. By 2003 when the two viruses finally burnt themselves out there were about 303 million people world wide, nearly 150 million Canadian Imperial Citizens. By 2010 this number was down to 210 million world wide as the Canadians diceded to strike everyone before anyone sane would have. They spent about the next 90 years desperatly rebuilding the world and hunting down Communist insurgents across Eurasia and South America. Then you met them in their 2100 and decided to help out these supposed victims of deranged enemies allowing them to reach a population of nearly 1 000 million before discovering their true nature and starting that war."
"Wait, so they weren't the total villains?"
"No, they started the descent into evil, but everyone was evil and desceptive. The communists were a little bit nicer if you ask me, but still never as good as your USSR."
"What happened to the moon colonies? We never heard anything about them during the war."
"Ah, well that was Communist. They had become self sufficient and Earth was in no shape for bothering with them. By the time they realised it the Lunar Union had built enough nukes to destroy several major cities or any space fleet built."
"Why didn't they intervene in the war then?"
"The didn't really care. And they knew enough of your government to know it wouldn't like their policies either."
"Are they still there?"
"Not sure, you guys hit that Dimension with enough interdimensional weapons we don't even feel safe there. However I have figured out a way to have fun with them."
"Oh? How? Do I want to know?"
"It involves and ISOT and some snakes."
"Snakes?"
"Yep," the bat thing smiled unsettlingly.
"Ok, well. . . hey looks like we're out of time. Would you fancy and awkward pause?"
When commercial brake started the bat disapeared.
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