Global Destabilization Period


 * Riot.jpg "No one knew exactly what had happened; they had gone to sleep one night, and the foundation of all their nightmares, their deepest fears, had somehow become reality."
 * —#717, 1LT Emily Barrett

The Global Destabilization Period refers to the three-month-long cataclysmic event that resulted in the end of a global society. It began with a few pockets of Omega outbreaks in major cities worldwide; in only a matter of days, it became a third World War. Because of the nature and totality of the devastation, it is also referred to as the apocalypse.

Resurrection Day

The start of the GDP is officially recognized as Resurrection Day, 01 January 2012. In the weeks that followed, by pooling resources and information, US and Canadian governments were able to identify the most likely series of events: After the creation of Retroviridae Alphavirus Necrotosis in a lab in Antartica, the responsible parties first brought the virus to Pretoria, Gauteng Province, Republic of South Africa. The release of the virus in Pretoria was initially reported at 0925 hours GMT as a bioterrorist attack. By 1300 hours GMT, similar reports surfaced from central urban cities in North and South America, Great Britian, and Southern Eurasia. Pockets of Russian, Chinese, and Australian citizens were presenting with cases, confirmed retroactively, by 2230 hours GMT.

The First Week 02 January 2012 - Global reports of mass hysteria, civil unrest, and martial law. India and Pakistan, Israel and Palestine declare war.

Atlanta Syndrome Instances of outbreaks of the virus were initially referred to as Atlanta Syndrome.

02 January 2012 - First indisputable evidence of reanimation recorded in Atlanta, Georgia, US; assertions referred to as the Atlanta Syndrome. Nuclear armament of southern Eurasia. Contact with Oceania lost.

09 January 2012 - India and Pakistan launch nuclear weapons. Contact with southern Eurasia lost. Atlanta Syndrome erupts worldwide.

The World Collapses 10 January 2012 - Contact with Asia, the Middle East, and Africa lost.

11 January 2012 - Contact with Central and South America and the Northern Islands lost.

16 January 2012 - Regiments of the Mexican Military, including a unit of Grupo Aeromóvil de Fuerzas Especiales (Special Forces Airmobile Group, also Souboys), enter US territory and are assimilated by newly-formed United Military Force (UMF). Homo Sapiens Necrotii catalogued; scientific study begins.

19 January 2012 - Contact with European Union lost; global chatter defunct. Contact between CFB Edmonton Namao, Alberta, Canada, and Bolling Air Force Base, Air Force District of Washington, Washington, District of Columbia, established.

25 January 2012 - Canadian Parliament dissolves. Reports of resistant individuals (eventually designated Necrotic Enzyme Resisters [NERs]) surface.

17 February 2012 - Bolling AFB overrun. US Central Government dissolves. Bolling contingent retreats to Langley Air Force Base, Hampton County, Virginia. Canada goes black.

19 February 2012 - Contact between CFB Edmonton Namao and Langley AFB established.

26 February 2012 - Military infrastructure and chain of command reestablished, Canada. Spartan Class and principles established. Key US infrastructure plants abandoned or overrun; US power grids collapse. US goes black.

02 March 2012 - Contact between CFB Edmonton Namao and Fort Dix, Burlington County, New Jersey, and Fort Bragg, Cumberland and Hoke Counties, North Carolina, established.

21 March 2012 - Contact between CFB Edmonton Namao Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, San Diego County, California, established.

The End of the Beginning 02 April 2012 - Edmonton Namao contingent retreats to Ft. McMurray, Alberta, Canada.

17 April 2012 - Repurposing of Bunker AR-713 and Silo 432B, Ft. McMurray, to Defense Force Base NaMac begins.

19 April 2012 - Establishment of the North American Federation of States (NAFS). Inception of the Senate. Centralization of US and Canadian military forces into the North American Military Defense Force (MDF). Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton designated Continental Forward Command Fort Pendleton. Langley Air Force Base designated Fort Langley.