Y2K Apocalypse



On December 31, 1999, over billions of the earth's citizens had finished their final Christmas celebrations of the Millennia and were preparing for the New Year, hopefully filled with promise and hope. Cable News Network had set up around Times Square to see the Millennial Ball drop down towards the eager crowds, awaiting the dawn of a new age. NORAD stood vigilant as they prepped the national nuclear defence plans for a possible glitch, yet their precautions where neither thorough nor adequate. Those familiarized with the Georgian Calendar, a small third of the world, forecasted a meaningful yet uneventful year ahead.

At around 11:50:00 p.m., New York Time, few cared at that moment about the latent warnings around a possible malfunction to every single object that possesses a microchip, they had heard on many news stations and Christianity websites. Many disregarded the idea as mere paranoia. At 11:55:12 p.m., in Los Angeles, California, a man broke into the CBS 2 News Station and managed to appear on-screen in front of the local anchormen and shout explicit messages of doom and horror regarding the Y2K Bug. He was forcibly escorted out of the building and taken to the nearest police station. He would not survive the night. By one minute to midnight, all of America was griped in suspense as the clock slowly ticked towards the approaching hour. In reality, more than half the world had already celebrated their arrival in the year 2000. The crystal ball studded with 504 triangles began to fall. New York watched with wonder and awe, as did other s on the east coast. Finally, Midnight.

At 12:00:00 a.m. EST, January 1, 2000, the computers had failed in over a third of the country. Then, by some unlikely situation, the problem magnified. 13 seconds later, over 6,439 nuclear warheads had been unstoppably launched, and where heading for their various locations. Britain, France, Germany, Australia, the former Soviet Union. Naturally, Russia’s defence system reacted double-fold. The Warheads reached Washington D.C. and New York at 12:24:56 and 12:12:09, respectively. By dawn, over five billion people's lives had been lost, and thousands of cities and towns in ruins. To the few survivors, this was only the beginning of the end.