Resistance: Fall of Man - An Oral History

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Excellent as usual, TreizeV. Manstein's defense of Danzig may have bought another month, but the Chimera will keep on coming.

How much of the population in conquered territory dies or is converted into Chimera-lings?

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Only one thing can save humanity...the Zerg.
One mass wave versus another...

 

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Only one thing can save humanity...the Zerg.
One mass wave versus another...

Or the creatures from that crappy movie starship troopers... or perhaps another crappy movie pitch black.

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Starship troopers!
BUGS!!!!!
But yes, only a species with even more disposable soldiers can fight the Chimera!

 

[Ermac]

the only thing that can save mankind is...this guy

 

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the only thing that can save mankind is...this guy

What is that from?

 

[Ermac]

Just some Jaws fan art. But think about it if that man is badass enough to attack a shark head on he may just give the chimera a run for their cooling units.

 

[TreizeV]

Allied United Nations HQ, New York City​

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[History has been made today, with the formal announcement and ratification of the United Nations Charter. With about 50 member countries on the starting roster, the allies, including countries such as Mexico and Brazil, have pledged war materiel to the allied cause and to thwart the coming Chimeran threat. The formal integration of the UED command with the United States Military is still forthcoming. One of the representatives for the UED is David Corrison, the head of the disaster and relief division for the European countries.]


The greatest mystery in the first months of the war was not so much what the Chimera were, but where everyone went? We had all the contingency plans for disaster. The winter of ’48 forced us to be on disaster footing. We had shelters fixed behind the lines, stockpiles of winter clothing, food and equipment ready to receive the refugees. The International Red Cross even went so far as to post agents along the roads as well as signs and rest stations. It was the most well thought out evacuation plan in the history of mankind.

Except no one made use of it.

The first cities to fall were in Finland and the Baltic states, when the Chimera breached the Warsaw and Mannerheim lines. As usual in war time, we expected a massive exodus of refugees to the west, and our planes even saw evidence of one. Discarded belongings, furniture, clothing on the roadsides, huge lines of trucks, cars and bicycles jammed on the streets. The one thing missing however, were the people, the bodies. Where did they go? There was evidence of people trying to escape, to get away from the cities, but it seemed like they were all halted in the middle of their attempts by something. This was the similar case through every city we encountered in Poland and Finland, a long deserted stretch of abandoned cars, belongings, trucks and other equipment lying on the roads outside the city, but all of them stopping within a few miles of the outskirts.

Warsaw, the city itself, was home to a pre-war population of 2 million people, and of the refugees that made it to our camps, the official UED census tabulated less than three thousand people that claimed to be from the city. That’s about a tenth of a percentage of the population that managed to escape. Granted, the first days of the war were chaotic, but how about the rest of Poland? What happened to the population? It seemed like the whole earth just opened up and swallowed them all. The Finns were even less lucky, barely ten thousand of them had managed to escape the country at all, with the vast Siberian wastelands to the north and the frozen Baltic to the west. I cannot imagine how it must have been like to be a Finn trying to escape the Chimera, especially in the freezing climate.

Little did we know, Poland and Finland would become case studies for what would eventually happen when the Chimera moved into their next phase of their invasion in Western Europe. By then even our well prepared camps were being overrun. After that, it was no longer a question of simply supplying the refugees, we had to evacuate them, not just from a country, but from the whole continent altogether. By the time we recognized the extent of the danger however, the Chimera were already on the offensive, never halting their advance as they reached into the heartland of Germany. Even today, we could not accurately count how many people were lost in the invasion. It is very difficult to fathom what could have happened to all those millions of missing people.

 

[TreizeV]

Thanks everyone for reading! i hope to answer more questions on the Chimera as we go on . That is coming.

A vote..who would like the next interview to be the start of the Rhineland campaign. I have an German artillery officer who may like to share some frontline stories with you or would you like me to head back to Asia for a quickie

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

Perhaps it would time to return to Asia for a quickie and let rest Europe, I think.

 

[Afom]

I'l vote for asia! :wacko:

 

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if theres action in asia, then asia.

 

[I Killed Kenny]

I think you should put both in a bar and they could compare

 

[stnylan]

I would say deal with Germany as that is the current focus, as it were. And then perhaps look elsewhere.

 

[Admiral Fyyar]

I would say deal with Germany as that is the current focus, as it were. And then perhaps look elsewhere.

+1

 

[Ermac]

I would like to know what happend to British India.

 

[ColossusCrusher]

Both!

 

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I vote for the primary focus to be on Germany, but there's no reason why the German officer couldn't throw in a sentence or three about what he had heard from Asia. I'm sure the European and Japanese commands were sharing information by this point.

 

[Enewald]

Germany, then Asia...

 

[Edzako]

Germany, then Asia...

I agree, German resistance seems to be of greater importance.