Mankinds Darkest Hour (Another WW3 Timeline)

Dom

Moderator
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Okay, I figured since I been on the site long enough I may as well try writing a timeline, I know it's not much at the moment but it's just me playing around, any criticism would be appreciated as would any tips for improving it or ideas where it could lead this is going to be more story than timeline but I like to have there anyways..
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[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] It started in 2001, September 11th, for everyone will go down as one of the most infamous days n history. The bombing of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon didn't have much affect on me, living in England I was sheltered from the threat, I heard of a friend of a family friend who was 'lucky' enough to be ill and off from work that day in the towers but mainly, life went on.. for the next few weeks at least.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] About three weeks later, 5 November, they got Canary Wharf in London, as well as the Parliament buildings, a lot of people thought that the date it fell on was ironic or had some purpose, my dad said it showed us all what they were capable of. The Met and everyone else was astounded, we thought our new security measures were impenetrable, but we were wrong. The following weeks no doubt changed the world even more, November 25th, France's parliaments are decimated, December 1st, the UN is bombed as they are in talks over the terrorist attacks, December 15th US go to war with Afghanistan, the first of many against the middle east as they view themselves as the saviours of the West and Christianity.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] Worst of all was Christmas day 2001, a load of cities all over the place were bombed, I was shitting myself there was a communication blackout for 10 hours that day, and no chance of Christmas television when it was ended, death was all over the news, London was only saved when a bomb squad managed to find the bomb, I cried that day, for the first time in a long time, I've cried a lot since then, I think everybody has, but at some point the tears just dried up. There was no doubt that we were at war now, on the New Year retaliation attacks were finally returned, a lot of people were angry that we'd waited this long to return fire, but I understood, we had no real government to issue commands until that point. Four weeks later, on my 18th Birthday, I signed up to the army. I think a lot of boys my age did, we were just so angry. I was infantry and it wasn't long before my unit were deployed in Iran, one of the many middle eastern countries it was decided at that point were to blame for the attacks. [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Here's the time-line so far.[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]September 11, 2001 – Twin Towers and Pentagon destroyed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]November 5, 2001 – Houses of Parliament and Canary Wharf attacked.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]November 25, 2001 – Palais du Luxembourg, Palais Bourbon and Château de Versailles are all bombed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 1, 2001 – UN meet to discuss terrorist attacks. UN Building bombed, perpetrator of attack is still not known but a lot of organisations are claiming it was them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 15, 2001 – US declare war on Afghanistan, after laying the blame of attacks on Osama Bin Laden. Germany and Spain refuses to put themselves at risk, France and are still recovering from their own attacks.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 25, 2001 – Nuclear bombs are detonated in a number of major cities – Dublin, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Madrid and Berlin, Washington and Los Angeles are left in Ruins, the London Bomb is discovered before it can detonate, as are a number in other American cities. World is stunned.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]1st January 2002 – America and Britain launch response attacks on Middle East, another world war is begun. This is the last that Nuclear Weapons have been used so far in the war. Death Tolls are too horrendous.[/FONT]
 
Can we get some details?

-Who are some of the groups claiming responsibility for the bombings?

-What kind(s) of weapons were used in the initial round of bombings?

-What was the political situation in the US, UK, France, etc. after the initial bombings?

-What kind of casualties in US, UK, France?

-Cooperation between western states?

-Any attacks on Russia/Ukraine/Belarus? Other former Warsaw Pact nations?

Looking forward to hearing more!

Bobindelaware
 
I certainly think you do the emotion well in the narrative, and as an intro the lack of detail may actually work because the writer (hypothetically speaking) would be writing about what EVERYONE knew so would hardly stop to flesh out the obvious

Of course, going forward it will need more detail and retrospectives

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 

Dom

Moderator
Thanks for the tips guys I am very new to this, and I was planning on fleshing it out a bit I was just interested in setting up the scene kind of thing, this writing style is entirely new to me, i'm usually not too descriptive or good with emotions but I thought it would probably suit the story more so i'm learning as I come along.

I have some general ideas about where it can lead but I don't want it to be too improbable so I gotta think these things through :D
 
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]September 11, 2001 – Twin Towers and Pentagon destroyed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]November 5, 2001 – Houses of Parliament and Canary Wharf attacked.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]November 25, 2001 – Palais du Luxembourg, Palais Bourbon and Château de Versailles are all bombed.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 1, 2001 – UN meet to discuss terrorist attacks. UN Building bombed, perpetrator of attack is still not known but a lot of organisations are claiming it was them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 15, 2001 – US declare war on Afghanistan, after laying the blame of attacks on Osama Bin Laden. Germany and Spain refuses to put themselves at risk, France and are still recovering from their own attacks.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]December 25, 2001 – Nuclear bombs are detonated in a number of major cities – Dublin, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Madrid and Berlin, Washington and Los Angeles are left in Ruins, the London Bomb is discovered before it can detonate, as are a number in other American cities. World is stunned.[/FONT]

What is your POD? I think it takes quite a lot of changes to create these Supernatural Über Terrorists who can pull all these acts off. Just the organisational refinement, planning and manpower required is staggering. Not to speak of actual nuclear terrorism... Is a major power (China, Russia, India?) involved?
 
Just a note but its probably very difficult to destroy the Pentagon given its size and relative ground-hugging-ness. IIRC its at least concentric rings, five sections etc, and the one aircraft that did hit it took out the central section of one of one...

Of course you could more heavily damage it, but I reckon its going to be impossible to co-ordinate striking the ground coherently - even with, say 5, planes it seems unlikely they'd crash one into each side

And increasing the number of planes hijacked in order to achieve something like that is an additional element - I suppose you can include the one that crashed in Pennsylvania, and wasnt there another group of potential hijackers who were unable to get on their plane ? That would give a potential of 3 to crash into the Pentagon which might EFFECTIVELY destroy it, as in render it out of action for some considerable time

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
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