Category:Meteor Madness

In the not too distant future United States President Barrack Obama is given an urgent message of national security concerning footage from the Hubble Sattelite Space Observatory. The top secret photos contain high-resolution images of a large Earth-bound meteorite hundreds of kilometers in diameter. It is given the name Nova Superior and is identified as the largest of the four fragments of the gigantic meteorite Nova Galactic - a large shark-tooth shaped space rock that is classified as one of the largest ever spotted by astronomers in history. Less than five months ago Nova Galactic had collided with one of Jupiter's moons and splintered into four large fragments. The largest fragment (Nova Superior) began to drift towards Earth shortly afterwards.

Other world leaders are also informed of the Nova Superior meteorite sightings.

Scientists around the world predict impact with Nova Superior, if indeed it does hit, will occur in the timeframe of two years, but an exact date is yet to be confirmed. It is not yet known even if the meteor will hit Earth or rotate enough so that it narrowly misses. Still, they intend to take it as a serious threat.

President Obama organizes a secret United Nations meeting where he addresses his fellow world leaders about the Nova Superior issue. They vote whether to tell the general public and rule in favor of keeping it a secret, their reasoning being that it would spark worldwide panic.

Seven months later and scientists say that they are 60% certain that impact with Nova Superior will occur. Obama holds another secret meeting with the UN. They address the issue but again agree not to inform the general population on the grounds that they are still unsure.

Another four months later and impact with Nova Superior is confirmed. However, at the same time, an important United States presidential election is about to come to a close, and Obama is not in favor of winning.

Scientists predict impact with Nova Superior in July. The United Nations stand by to prepare for an upcoming global crisis. Governments all around the world are secretly constructing emergency bunkers for government officials and the rich.

Barrack Obama loses the presidential election to Republican Charles Logan. The newly christened President Logan is informed of the Nova Superior situation but, despite warnings from his top scientists, decides not to inform the public.

Two months to the impact date and news of the approaching crisis iss accidentally leaked to the media. The world is in uproar. Many governments are forced to retreat to their private bunkers, leaving the people to fend for themselves. Riots and outrage spark up everywhere, particularly in the Middle East and Russia. Fear runs rampant throughout the world.

After a brief sixteen minute period of complete darkness when the meteorite covered the Sun, Nova Superior makes contact with Earth, crashing into the areas formerly known as the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland, Norway, Iceland, and Sweden. Also hit is a substantial portion of the North Atlantic Ocean surrounding Europe. Destroying and submerging the majority of the continent sparks numerous mega-tsunamis and devastating earthquakes that ravaged coastal South and North America as well as the majority of Africa (Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Chad, and Kenya). Not to mention the parts of Asia close to the impact site such as much of the Middle East (Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and some of Kazakhstan) and about half the landmass of continental Russia. Parts of Greenland were also flooded.

The only countries largely unaffected by the initial impact (or at least visibly) were China, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Thailand, Chile, Argentina, Canada, Madagascar, South Africa, Mexico, Texas, and New Zealand. Some other countries were only slightly affected.

Initially, the world was silent. Destruction like this had never been experienced before. The Earth had been dealt a potentially fatal blow. Millions were dead, many other homeless. Government was virtually non-existent. Diseases and famine lay waste to the land. The sudden violent environmental change could spell the end of the human race. Long-dormant volcanoes have been rekindled - large clouds of methane and sulfur cloud the sky and dim the Sun. Ash and particles of dust pollute the water.

And yet the destruction had not ceased. What remnants of impacted land there were left were splintered beyond recognition or uninhabitable. And the flood water was still rising. Water now covered much of the world. Australia and other coastal continents lay at the mercy of floods. All power and electricity has been cut off - communications worldwide cease to exist.

Then comes a period of nine months where the remaining pockets of civilization wait with baited breath for everything to settle down. The flood water recedes. The ocean quiets. The pollution in the sky clears up. Even some submerged land resurfaces - but not much.

After several years shaky new civilizations begin to emerge from the rubble of humanity. These include the Republic Provinces of Canada (RPC), Mejico-Texas, San Francisco, and Alaskia in North America, the biggest being the RPC and the smallest being Mejico-Texas.

In Asia there is the communistic New China (China and Mongolia), the tiny region of Thai-Korea (Thailand and South Korea combined), and the war-like, hostile Japanoko people (Japan), thier capitol being the only relatively undamaged city of Tokyo.

Several more years later and other countries are formed in the area once known as Australia: Greater Zealand (New Zealand and South Australia), Austronesia (Northern Austraila and Indonesia), and The Guinea Islands (New Guinea was partially submerged and split up by earthquakes, creaking a small ring of islands that flourish with plants, animals, and tropical fruit).

In South America some states begin to rebuild, including Chile, Argentina, Peru, and some of Brazil. Together they later form the Peruvian Union.

The RCP expands to populate the majority of the United States mainland, reaching down to the Mejican-Texan border and the edge of Alaskian terroritory. The RCP quickly constructs clusters of small towns and villages. They then proceed to dig for coal (They need another source of heat with the loss of electricity). Their buildings are mostly made with wood, but some have managed to salvage metal or cement from the wreckage.