oh yeah you're right. doesnt look like the bloke from the game at all, other than that its a white man with shaved hair. he must have done something right if he went straight from PFC to sergeant.
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CHAPTER 3: The Darkening World
USS Ticonderoga, Off the Coast of Japan
[It has been three months since Allied forces were forced to abandon the Japanese Home Islands to the Chimera, and no one knows what awaits them on shore. All aerial surveillance of the Japanese coast revealed nothing but abandoned and barricaded villages and military bases. Not a soul was seen. From the distance, we observed the Chimeran structures that were taking root in the cities of Japan, huge twisted steel towers and facilities whose purpose still eludes us. It is the closest I have ever gotten to the Chimera. Operation Deliverance is scheduled to be underway soon, but beforehand, Allied command wants to test the waters near Chimeran shores. I managed to volunteer as a civilian communications aide for the Allied command. Security is tight on the US vessels as dozens of aircraft fly their sorties to and from the Japanese mainland. During my breaks on deck, I meet up with another communications officer, Takuya Yamazaki, formerly of the Imperial Japanese Army]
It is a hard thing to look at your home in such a state. It is even harder to believe how the state of the world’s affairs have changed. Before the Chimera, people talked of nations, ethnicities and social castes, but now all we hear is the talk of survival. The equality of suffering, as one of your talented American poets put it at.
I hear you are part of the Alliance Broadcasting and Communications Department, can you elaborate a bit more on this?
The ABC’s (awesome abbreviation eh?) were formed after the fall of Berlin. At the time Japan hadn’t joined but it started out as a civilian sponsored propaganda campaign to help unite the population against the Chimera. Before then the government really did an incompetent job of informing the people, even after the fall of Poland, many in Western Europe still believed the enemy were the Russians. Could you imagine the fear the soldiers must have felt when they realized once they got to the front the enemy were anything but Russian? Ignorance costed Europe the war, and the same goes for my country as well. [He pauses] If we had understood the nature of the conflict, the effects of the virus on humans, the ferocity of the enemy, we may have been able to prevent many tragedies from happening.
You may have heard of the chaos following the fall of Berlin, wholesale riots in France, suicides in Austria, mercy killings in Hamburg. People were in a state of panic, knowing this black wave of an enemy was heading straight for them, sparing nothing in its wake. That was how our department started the propaganda, to remind citizens to donate their time and money into contributing to the war effort. Radio broadcasts were on twenty four hours a day, telling people to buy war bonds or volunteer for the nearest armed regiment. We also offered segments on survival skills such as what to do in case of a Chimera attack and basic foods and tools you need for survival. The government also did a complete about face and disclosed everything they knew about the Chimera. People are more scared of the enemy they can’t see than the one they can.
Was it a success?
I can’t really comment on that, considering I was not part of the European department’s efforts, and the fact that most of their target audience is now either dead or no longer human. The Asian department didn’t have much success as well, the majority of the peasants and civilian population we tried to reach did not have adequate communication tools, such as radios or TVs like your American audience. Most of our warnings had to be issued by courier, poster or by word of mouth, by then most of the populations had been eradicated. Mongolia for instance, fell without either side of the Sino-Japanese war noticing.
I do not blame them. The Chimeran advance happened too fast for any effective propaganda to take effect. Both soldier and civilian were trying their best to not only stay alive, but flee westwards to the sea. You must understand the profound psychological effect the Chimera had on the populace as a whole. Battle fatigue cases spiked up since the fall of Berlin, caused mainly by the fear of the Chimera and the fact that the standard soldier had no idea how to confront one. Our department first countered that by issuing pamphlets to our soldiers, letting them in on all the information the allied governments had available on the Chimera and how best to fight them.
Allied communications pamphlet distributed to the troops
Have you heard of Sergeant Hamlin? The man who took on a Stalker tank alone and won by getting around it’s backside and firing at the power core? We’ve distributed thousands of pamphlets to the troops containing information on Hamlin’s method, as it became known. It was not an instant success but we did see a ten percent drop in battle fatigue cases as soldiers were now given a chance to both physically and mentally prepare themselves against the new enemy.
Suicides were another thing our department fought to combat. With the fall of Europe and Asia’s great cities and the deaths of Millions, who wouldn’t have lost hope and the will to go on? The suicides hit the medical corps the hardest. Can you imagine the stress or mental strain a medic would have to go through in the field? Considering he would be responsible for killing hundreds of his patients, his friends, with shots of morphine or a bullet to the head? I’m not in their situation, so I cannot comment or even begin to comprehend, but it’s not hard to believe that the faces of the hundreds of patients they had to ‘save’ are etched somewhere in their minds. Medics were killing themselves at an alarming rate, along with the civilian population in the destroyed areas, so we sought to play broadcasts that focused only on the good news. The heroic stand of the Greek army at Thermopylae, the evacuation of Beijing between Cooperating Japanese and Chinese forces. These were the kinds of stories the government encourage us to run.
At the same time, our staff had a hard time processing all the data coming in. The rate of the Chimeran advance saw to that. Aside from having to receive reports from thousands of locations in Asia and Europe, we would also have a tough time verifying the authenticity or the relevance of the information. A broadcast from the city of Frankfurt might be useless within hours because the Chimera had already overrun the area. That was what happened after the fall of Berlin. The French army had crossed the Rhine to remove the Nazis from power, they succeeded in conquering a large swath of Western Germany. What they didn’t realize now was that they were now sitting ducks in the open, sort on ammo and fuel from their initial drive. The Chimeran picked them off or devoured them within days. The bulk of the French army and West Germany. At that point, even the propaganda stations had to advise the civilians to head for the Atlantic.
At least the Europeans had that. I cannot even begin to fathom how many lost their lives in Asia when the Chimera attacked……
Well, you can tell me a bit more about your experiences with the Imperal Japanese Army……..
To be continued
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crap there's alot of replies 
Kurt Steiner Perhaps the Chimera do have a weakness well we shall learn more as the AAR and resistance 2 goes on
I killed Kenny Embarrassingly enough, Ive never used nukes in my HOI2 career before better start learning!
Zauberfloete That's the spirit! =D
Frigidmagi Tis true, a real casuality of war, but would anyone else feel like that in his place?
ColossusCrusher How about Nuclear winter?
Stefke Indeed, the odds don't look too good for man. The title of the game doesn't give much hope either
Ermac Yup, nuclear winter may help the Chimera, who knows if they even succumb to radiation!
Fulcrumvale At this point in the timeline, no ICBMs, so the only other method is aerial bombing, but the Chimera are adept at anti-aircraft defense.
Chicken There are no problems only challenges
Faeelin Unfortunately, I doubt at this point there are enough biological weapons to kill the millions infected
Strategos' Risk That shall be a topic of another update XD
British Imperial Yeah VTOLs are awesome things
KanaX Interesting unlike the arachnids though, these ones can manufacture guns and spaceships!
stnylan Haha very nice, I do intend to have our reporter play a bigger role in the future time will tell.
Bafflegab Very imaginative reasoning. However, i don't think the Chimera virus is that simple to just cure...more on that later on
Capibara Thanks Capibara! I do hope to make this AAR somewhat gloomy and depressing
Ksim3000 Glad that clears it up for you!
TheExecuter Unfortunately at this timeline the best space vehicle humanity can conceive may only serve to send a basketball sized object into space, let alone an entire population
Winner-Herbert West You hit the nail with the hammer there. THe disease isn't as simple as it looks. As for the food problem, it could conceivably make sense, considering the Chimera need only divert their energies towards two things. Food and weapons. Humans on the other hand, need hydro, electrical, entertainment, and other services that take up resources to make. The Chimera may just focus all their industry on these two things and can afford to make due.
Calipah The desert isn't off limits
Icefire I may offer my own theory on where they get their energy later on
elbasto Interesting theory, i like it!
Edzako The Chimera are quick to learn and adapt
Pzt_Dragoon47 Again, great theory, even I don't know the answer to all of the questions, but we will see with resistance 2
Trekaddict Awesome motto
Lurken, Skarion Unfortunately, I may only say a few words about how Sweden fell. I will however, plan to cover other parts of europe, like Scandanavia, in future updates
Kurt Steiner Perhaps the Chimera do have a weakness
well we shall learn more as the AAR and resistance 2 goes on I killed Kenny Embarrassingly enough, Ive never used nukes in my HOI2 career before
better start learning!Zauberfloete That's the spirit! =D
Frigidmagi Tis true, a real casuality of war, but would anyone else feel like that in his place?
ColossusCrusher How about Nuclear winter?
Stefke Indeed, the odds don't look too good for man. The title of the game doesn't give much hope either
Ermac Yup, nuclear winter may help the Chimera, who knows if they even succumb to radiation!
Fulcrumvale At this point in the timeline, no ICBMs, so the only other method is aerial bombing, but the Chimera are adept at anti-aircraft defense.
Chicken There are no problems
only challenges Faeelin Unfortunately, I doubt at this point there are enough biological weapons to kill the millions infected
Strategos' Risk That shall be a topic of another update XD
British Imperial Yeah VTOLs are awesome things
KanaX Interesting
unlike the arachnids though, these ones can manufacture guns and spaceships!stnylan Haha very nice, I do intend to have our reporter play a bigger role in the future
time will tell.Bafflegab Very imaginative reasoning. However, i don't think the Chimera virus is that simple to just cure...more on that later on
Capibara Thanks Capibara! I do hope to make this AAR somewhat gloomy and depressing
Ksim3000 Glad that clears it up for you!
TheExecuter Unfortunately at this timeline the best space vehicle humanity can conceive may only serve to send a basketball sized object into space, let alone an entire population
Winner-Herbert West You hit the nail with the hammer there. THe disease isn't as simple as it looks. As for the food problem, it could conceivably make sense, considering the Chimera need only divert their energies towards two things. Food and weapons. Humans on the other hand, need hydro, electrical, entertainment, and other services that take up resources to make. The Chimera may just focus all their industry on these two things and can afford to make due.
Calipah The desert isn't off limits
Icefire I may offer my own theory on where they get their energy later on
elbasto Interesting theory, i like it!
Edzako The Chimera are quick to learn and adapt
Pzt_Dragoon47 Again, great theory, even I don't know the answer to all of the questions, but we will see with resistance 2
Trekaddict Awesome motto
Lurken, Skarion Unfortunately, I may only say a few words about how Sweden fell. I will however, plan to cover other parts of europe, like Scandanavia, in future updates
I think I am going to call this update a rather positive one. That may seem odd, but the story of the sergeant learning of a weakness of the Stalker tanks does, I think, proffer a slight ray of hope.
Of course, it is entirely possible TreizeV is only going to dash those hopes later on, but its nice while it lasts
Of course, it is entirely possible TreizeV is only going to dash those hopes later on, but its nice while it lasts
ColossusCrusher said:Were the Greeks commanded by General Leonidas?
No, Through Persian cooperation, Field Marshall Xerxes led the fight. :rofl:
Like you've written in Asia communication is pretty ... low! But I think Japan and some cities in china and india could benifit from european experience! Ah, the image of dozens of Kamikaze fighters plugging through the chimera lines are crossing my mind now!
I think last to fall of all Asia would be Japan, the IJN and the supership Yamamoto will make them pay dearly, but then those chimeran space ships.....!
I think last to fall of all Asia would be Japan, the IJN and the supership Yamamoto will make them pay dearly, but then those chimeran space ships.....!
Zauberfloete said:
The space ships are around during the American invasion, and not at this time.
Now, let's see how Korea holds up....
No, just stalling for time against the inevitable...though whether its that slim chance for victory or that massively huge chance at annihilation has yet to be seen.
TreizeV, I have to say I've been hooked since I first saw this AAR several weeks ago. You've done some incredible writing; here's hoping for more.
TreizeV, I have to say I've been hooked since I first saw this AAR several weeks ago. You've done some incredible writing; here's hoping for more.
Wonderful AAR, TreizeV. I'd prefer it if you kept it in its current format, though. I think it'll loose its edge when we see Chimeran Divs being encircled by the US and being wiped out as easily as any human troops.
So, once Berlin fell, the Chimera arrived to the Rhine singing "Waltzing Matilda", so to speak.
And, agreed. Waiting eagerly for the events of the Asiatic experience.
And, agreed. Waiting eagerly for the events of the Asiatic experience.
Well Asia will be nice, but I am eager to see how Japanese Imperial Army will fight chimmera, they have been well know for their high morale, and there most likely will be easier to convince population to commit suicide than in Western world.
So, was the Sino-Japanese war still going on when the Chimera invaded? If not, when did it start and when did it end?
Alexus said:
1949... Jesus, it would have been going on for 12 years.
Now that's a major plot hole that has to be filled.
I wonder what a naval encounter between the Chimera and the IJN would be like.
Anyway, they have a new viral Resistance 2 website: http://terminal-srpa.net/ It's a database and one of the bits of info reminded me of this AAR. Type in GET EU9377DEBRIEF and hit enter and type in RES and hit enter, it shows up an interview with a American soldier who was in Italy when the Chimera attacked. Neat stuff.
GET PPG
GET DISEASECONTROL - you can press RES after that to get a better image
GET TIP
GET COMMANDERHOLIDAYS
Those are some other ones.
Anyway, they have a new viral Resistance 2 website: http://terminal-srpa.net/ It's a database and one of the bits of info reminded me of this AAR. Type in GET EU9377DEBRIEF and hit enter and type in RES and hit enter, it shows up an interview with a American soldier who was in Italy when the Chimera attacked. Neat stuff.
GET PPG
GET DISEASECONTROL - you can press RES after that to get a better image
GET TIP
GET COMMANDERHOLIDAYS
Those are some other ones.