Remnants of Armageddon

1994

 * July: Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 is fractured into 3 pieces when it enters Jupiter's gravity. Two of the larger pieces impact onto the surface of Jupiter, but the smallest fragment is accelarated by the planet's gravity towards Earth.
 * September: NASA leaks the information about the comet fragment to the press. Dan Rather is the first to deliver the story on CBS. The public reaction is utter histeria, and within 48 hours a state of anarchy has ensued across the planet.
 * November: President Clinton institutes marshal law across most of the United States, and recalls all troops from accross the globe to help maintain social order. The UN Secretary General delcares the first global state of emergency.
 * December: World leaders conviene in New York to discuss possible solutions to deter the comet. Dr. Carolyn S. Shoemaker, the comet's codiscoverer and berer of bad news, proffesses to the counsil that there is nothing that can be done. The comet has accelarated to a point in which no amount of force can deter it's course, and any form of shelter would be useless with the level of destruction that would be brought on. As the assembly insues into chaos, Dr. Anatoly Perminov of the Russian Space Agency stands up to state that if every nuclear weapon were detonated on the comet's surface, the force of the blast would be strong enought as dictated by computer models, to slow the speed of the comet and somewhat reduce its mass to mitigate the effects of the impact. General Colin Powel of the Joint Chiefs revelas that if that were the case, the US has some fifteen subterranian fallout shelters designed to last a minimum of thirty years underground with food and supplies for fifty thousand people a piece.

1995

 * President Clinton's popularity is at an all time low when it is discovered that he personally covered up the comet, and ordered that General Powell be removed from the Joint Chiefs for revealing to the world the fallout shelters.
 * President Boris Yeltsin of Russia reveals that the Soviet Union had also constructed a series of bomb shelters during the cold war, and offers asylum to certain European scientists.
 * China reveals the Long March tunnels constructed with funds from the Soviets.

1996

 * President Clinton looses his re-election to General Powell, and is removed from office for abuse of power.
 * Congress passes an emergency 28th Amendment giving General Powell executive office early for winning the election during the current president's impeachment.
 * President Powell begins The Ark Project, directing the US Census bureau to find every American under 40 who is not a VIP, and determine his or her status for enterance into the shelters.
 * The leaders of all nuclear powers launch their ordinance at the comet, its mass is reduced by one third, and its velocity is cut in half.
 * In a gesture of unity President Yeltsin signs the Unified Europe treaty, uniting all of Europe and Russia as a single nation.
 * Taiwan, after revealing thier shelters, allows Japanese citizens entrance into the Eternal Freedom Tunnels.

1997

 * April: Comet Shoemaker Levy 9d impacts Earth in the Indian Ocean. Within nine hours a wave two mile high has washed over India, Africa and South East Asia. The blast sends millions of tons of dust and rock into the atmosphere creating a blanket of ash that will block out the sun for half a decade. The world is sent into a new Ice Age, and a quite darkness consumes the Earth.
 * June: The majority of all flora and fauna have died on the surface of the Earth.

2003

 * March: Though temperatures still hover in the 50s on the equator, the first shelters re-open. President Powell, after being re-elected in 2001, announces that the dawn has finally arrived.
 * May: The first settelment in Houston begins to grow with farms and a city of 300,000 (extended due to the short wait in the shelters.) It is named New Houston.
 * June: Moscow Vault opens with 235,000. Shangai Tunnel follows with over a million people.
 * August: North Korea shocks the world by opening the tunnels in the mountains of their land. The single tunnel, while crampt, and unfit for most live stock carried half of the nation's population of 23 million people. making North Korea, the most populous nation on Earth.

2004

 * Al Gore, having desented from Clinton and championed the reconstruction of the enviroment during the crisis, is elected President of the United States.
 * Vladamir Putin is elected President of the Pan-European Alliance.
 * North Korea retakes South Korea, and announces the creation of the People's Empire of Korea.

2005

 * New Houston is officially made the provisional capitol of the United States. It is one of twenty two new US cities.
 * Moscow becomes the Offical Capitol of Europe.
 * Taiwanopens its vaults, and rebuilds Taipei.
 * The Korean Empire invades Japan.

2006

 * The UN conviens for the first time since the disaster in New Houston, former President Powell is appointed amabassador to the US and speaks about reclaiming former territory. The Korean Empire proffesses that they should be given the most, because of their enourmus population.