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Four Thousand Club
It all started 3 years ago. An asteroid, Keti - 6646 came remarkably close to earth. The news as they did, stirred up panic across the globe, over 4km in length and weighing over 300 tonnes, it looked to be an asteroid that could cause significant damage. When the day came for the impact, like millions of others before it, it burned up harmlessly in the atmosphere till finally a 50 meter chunk, the largest remaining piece, exploded over the Gobi Desert in China with the force of a small nuclear device. The only casualties were two North Korean defectors fleeing across the desert, one being hit by a chunk of the asteroid, three others recieving partial hearing loss.
Nobody knew what effect this would have in the long term however. Across the globe, individuals who inhaled dust from the asteroid, which drifted and settled across the globe, began to develop certain abilities. People began to control solid matter with their minds, others became impervious to nearly all physical damage, some gained the ability to manipulate the minds of others and some even, the ability to channel elements at will, transforming their bodies in the process. At first many were excited. In the middle east, africa and afghanistan these people faced one of two fates, execution for becoming an abomination, or praise as heroes blessed by god. In other places though, some became celebrities, so famous that existing celebrities began pretending they had powers too. But none really did. In the more shadowy areas of the world however, those with abilities were experimented on, and used as super-soldiers in hundreds of conflicts around the world. But many simply settled diwn, migrating in particular to L.A, where the U.S hoped to gain a monopoly on super-powered humans, but this didn't go as planned.
Black Tuesday it was called, when superhumans tried to assert themselves as a new power on earth. Air Force One was torn down from the sky, the president, VP and much of his cabinet died in the crash. In China government officials including president Xi were attacked in the streets, Beijing and the surrounding countryside became a warzone. Across Europe far-right wing groups attempted to sieze power, with their few super-powered nembers to spearhead their assaults on the european parliment, tge house of lords in the U.K and many others. Mecca was bombed and in the span of 2 weeks after Black tuesday, Israel was wiped off the map, it's population exterminated, the survivors sold as slaves across the region. And L.A, and a wide swathe of land around it, from the southern tip of san Francisco to just across the U.S-Mexico border in Tijuana, an independant nation was declared. With a hundred different names. A nation for the super-powered. Needless to say the Military Emergency government refused to stand for this... that was four months ago, the bombs have been dropping and the guns & missiles have been firing since.
Our story opens on southwest San Bernadino, smoke chokes out the morning sun as the morning is met by the distant rattle of gunfire. Inch by inch the military has been advancing, but every inch is paid for in lives. The highways towards the coast are unuseable, choked up with traffic and abandoned cars. Resistance fighters laden with heavy packs trudge East for another day of combat, "Super humans" dart across the landscape, some to fight, others to help the civilians evacuate. Electricity kicks in at 7am, power, like everything else must be rationed. Across barren, empty streets, radio and tv broadcasts echo with news anchors on the other side of the country reporting on what's going on just outside the people's doors. "Operation Reclaimation comes to the close of it's third month of operations, supreme commander General Don Mattas reports the main force of the so-called "resistance" is finally on the ropes as U.S troops pour into San Bernadino, the general says he is under "no illusions" that there won't be further casualties as this operation has already cost ove r 10,000 military lives, stay with us after the break, this. Is CNN" comes from one house, while the "talking heads" rattle off from another. So few have left their houses this month, many wonder if their neighbours are even still alive. But so many are too scared to eme rge even for a minute to check.
Nobody knew what effect this would have in the long term however. Across the globe, individuals who inhaled dust from the asteroid, which drifted and settled across the globe, began to develop certain abilities. People began to control solid matter with their minds, others became impervious to nearly all physical damage, some gained the ability to manipulate the minds of others and some even, the ability to channel elements at will, transforming their bodies in the process. At first many were excited. In the middle east, africa and afghanistan these people faced one of two fates, execution for becoming an abomination, or praise as heroes blessed by god. In other places though, some became celebrities, so famous that existing celebrities began pretending they had powers too. But none really did. In the more shadowy areas of the world however, those with abilities were experimented on, and used as super-soldiers in hundreds of conflicts around the world. But many simply settled diwn, migrating in particular to L.A, where the U.S hoped to gain a monopoly on super-powered humans, but this didn't go as planned.
Black Tuesday it was called, when superhumans tried to assert themselves as a new power on earth. Air Force One was torn down from the sky, the president, VP and much of his cabinet died in the crash. In China government officials including president Xi were attacked in the streets, Beijing and the surrounding countryside became a warzone. Across Europe far-right wing groups attempted to sieze power, with their few super-powered nembers to spearhead their assaults on the european parliment, tge house of lords in the U.K and many others. Mecca was bombed and in the span of 2 weeks after Black tuesday, Israel was wiped off the map, it's population exterminated, the survivors sold as slaves across the region. And L.A, and a wide swathe of land around it, from the southern tip of san Francisco to just across the U.S-Mexico border in Tijuana, an independant nation was declared. With a hundred different names. A nation for the super-powered. Needless to say the Military Emergency government refused to stand for this... that was four months ago, the bombs have been dropping and the guns & missiles have been firing since.
Our story opens on southwest San Bernadino, smoke chokes out the morning sun as the morning is met by the distant rattle of gunfire. Inch by inch the military has been advancing, but every inch is paid for in lives. The highways towards the coast are unuseable, choked up with traffic and abandoned cars. Resistance fighters laden with heavy packs trudge East for another day of combat, "Super humans" dart across the landscape, some to fight, others to help the civilians evacuate. Electricity kicks in at 7am, power, like everything else must be rationed. Across barren, empty streets, radio and tv broadcasts echo with news anchors on the other side of the country reporting on what's going on just outside the people's doors. "Operation Reclaimation comes to the close of it's third month of operations, supreme commander General Don Mattas reports the main force of the so-called "resistance" is finally on the ropes as U.S troops pour into San Bernadino, the general says he is under "no illusions" that there won't be further casualties as this operation has already cost ove r 10,000 military lives, stay with us after the break, this. Is CNN" comes from one house, while the "talking heads" rattle off from another. So few have left their houses this month, many wonder if their neighbours are even still alive. But so many are too scared to eme rge even for a minute to check.
