Union timeline

The Union timeline takes place in 1994 in a world where the Soviet Union has become much more benevolent and has yet to fall, and where the United States is caught under the grip of a totalitarian regime.

In 1963, after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, anti-communist politicians within the nation's government began to use the fear that JFK's death was a Soviet conspiracy to their advantage, stirring up anti-communist and xenophobic sentiment so that, by 1984, when a Korean War vet named Henry Harris is elected president instead of Richard Nixion things suddenly go from bad to worse.

Under Presidnet Harris--a paranoid egotistical man--martial law suddenly is enforced in certain parts of the country, including the 'communist sympathetic' San Francisco Bay Area, schoolchildren are now taught from a very young age that America's needs supersede those of the rest of the world, a sentiment summed up in the now-common expression 'America First' and Harris sucsessfully repeals the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, allowing a president (namely him) to be elected for more than two four-year terms.

Xenophobic attitudes also began to take root, and the U.S. severs its diplomatic relations with China and refuses further finacial assistence to Pakistaini President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, allowing the Soviet war in Afganistatin to eventually succeed, and with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany in November of 1989, the U.S. withdraws from NATO, furthing its isolationist stance.

Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union itself, postive change has been sweeping the board. Mikhail Gorbachev's reform policies of glasnost' and peristroika' actually worked. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact in 1989 the USSR joined NATO, ironically filling the power vaccumn left by the departing U.S., and in 1991 the Soviet Republics of Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Moldavia were all granted their independence the Soviet government in Moscow, bringing the number of Soviet republics fifteen down to nine. After this event, the rest of the USSR is reformed from the 'Union of Soviet Socialist Republics' to become the 'Union of Soviet Soveriegn States' under the New Union Treaty, and quickly establishes relations with other countries, such as the United Kingdom.

But things are never easy, in the United States, President Harris has been claiming that since 1992, Canda has been under the influence of 'communsit insurgents', who are now preparing to invade Alaska to gain control of 'American oil', in responce to this supposed threat, Harris prepares troops to be deployed in Canda in an invasion to liberate Canada from the 'commies', in reality this liberation is nothing more than Harris' fanatical attempt to create a vast anti-communsit 'American Empire'.

Candaian Intelligence picks up word of the planned invasion and asks the United Nations for help, in responce, both the United Kingdom and the now-refomred Soviet Union step forward, agreeing on a UN-backed military operation to bring down Harris' regime and stop the invasion of Canada.

On October 1st 1994 at exactly 12:00 PM, the same day that Harris authorizes troop movement into Canada, Soviet and British paratroopers suddenly land in major Candian cities and establsih defensive perimeters in cooperation with Canadian forces. In the U.S. the Royal Air Force and Soviet Air Force launch a surprise attack on Peral Harbor, Hawaii. On the mainland,Soviet paratroopers land in major West Coast cities, including Seattle, establishing a hasty occupation, while on the East Coast,Britain's Royal Navy barricade New York Harbor and soon establish a foothold on Liberty Island.

Harris is now panicing. The Communists have come...