Unlimited, A Failed Timeline

The Unlimited Timeline is an everpresent threat. Making poor choices, even in the Alternative Timeline (see folder: "Alternative, The Path to Victory"), can lead the player and party right back to this scenario and it can be triggered wherever is appropriate for the timeline and the campaign. If Alternative IV is fails, it is a guaranteed failure for the Earth. But, it's not entirely over for the remnants of Humanity...

Sequence of Events

This segment focuses entirely on Takeru Shirogane.

Highschool senior, @Takeru Shirogane arrives in the BETAverse on October 22, 2001. Waking up in the ruins of his home in the greater Yokohama area. Seeing a destroyed @Type-77 Gekishin, he thinks he's in a dream at first and its a mech from Valgern-On, a video game he enjoys. Making his way to @Yokohama Base, he realizes he isn't dreaming and his school is now a military base, along with his former teachers and classmates from the being @Instructors, @Scientists and @Trainees in this new setting. After being thrown in the brig as an intruder, Takeru eventually finds himself enrolled into training at the base via the good graces and intervention of @Yuuko Kouzuki, but struggles to adjust to his new reality.

What now follows is a series of world events

November 11, 2001: BETA invasion of Niigata from the @Sadogashima Hive, Objective 21. After taking heavy losses, the incursion is stopped by the Japanese military near the Final Kanto Defense Line.

Later in November, there is an attempted terrorist attack on @Yokohama Base by elements of the @Anti-Alternative Faction. They attempt to crash an orbital HSST, potentially laden with explosives, into the base while the UN Undersecretary General is present.

December 25, 2001: With a lack of results, and heavy pressuring by the pro-American factions within the UN, @Alternative IV is officially cancelled. The UN moves on to preparations for Alternative V. Funding is cut to @Yokohama Base and @Yuuko Kouzuki. Personnel are put on perpetual standby.

Spaceships continue to be assembled in orbit, to be used as arks, carring humanity to a new planet to settle. Hopefully with no BETA presence. This process goes on for another two and a half years.

February 23, 2004: Alternative V, codenamed Operation Babylon, commences. The migrant fleet departs with roughly 100,000 people. Simultaneously, a massive, global counterattack by TSFs, ground and naval forces, and large scale deployment of G-Bombs against all BETA Hives across the Earth begins. Known in future records as "The Day". With the departure of VIPs like @Yuuhi Koubuin, @Meiya Mitsurugi assumes her national duty and fills as a double, taking the role of her departed twin and maintaining a guise as the Shogun, pretending to be Yuuhi for the sake of Japanese national stability.

The after effects of mass G-Bomb detonations wreck the Earth. Within 4 days, a rise in the ocean levels around coastal Eurasia is noticed. It is proposed that these areas may become submerged. Operation Blue Ocean is put into effect both to withdraw military forces and to evacuate civillians from these areas. Hawaii is named as the staging point for efforts in the Pacific region. Units from every power in the region begin to head there. A low orbit photograph of the @South American continent taken by orbital monitoring station, Mother Goose 1, reveals that the atmosphere has apparently been completely blown away. It is discovered that the Earth has shifted by 0.1%, approximately 13km, which is enough to move some regions out of the narrow 10km high 'habitable zone' of the atmosphere. The change is theorised to have been caused by the mass G-bombing having created super-dense masses affecting the Earth's core and natural gravity field.

6 days after "The Day": an attempt to evacuate the @Empire of Japan is made. Priority is given to military and industrial shipping. Civilian ships are given a lower priority. Riots break out at ports. The TSFs of the IJA are forced to fire live rounds over the heads of the rioters in attempt to maintain order. Even so, there are still casualties as the massive crush of people try to escape the country via any means they can. The following day, Mother Goose 1 observes the 1400m high megatsunami tentatively named Alpha 1 impact the @European mainland. It hits Ireland, the British Isles and the Iberian peninsula first followed by France 30s later. 600 seconds after Alpha 1, a second megatsunami tentatively named Alpha 2 impacts. Tsunamis surge in the Pacific as well, catching thousands of military and civilian vessels and leaving survivors stranded in newly established salt deserts as the most of the oceans are siphoned out from beyond the atmosphere from the various 'vacuum zones' created by the G-bombings. All predictions within the "Yuuko Report" come to fruition.

17 days after "The Day": Mother Goose 1 receives a radio message from Earth declaring a revolution in France-Quebec, @Canada, overthrowing the 5th French Republic, naming the 6th French Republic and declaring war on @The United States of America (USA).

93 days after "The Day": US Marines squadron VMF-318 "Black Knives" members 01 and 02, @Daryl A. McManus and @Wilbert D. Collins currently seconded to the U.S.S John F Kennedy come across the sole survivor of the U.S. Navy stores ship U.S.S Seattle and member of VMF-526 "Bloody Knightmare", @Lilia Kjellberg while setting up a Radio signal booster. Over the course of two weeks, the stranded Marines send SOS broadcasts over the radio until they are attacked by a wandering BETA herd. All aboard perish except for Black Knives 03, Lilia Kjellberg, who is launched away from the battle via the JFKs catapult with secret data from @Yokohama Base and knowledge of the BETA's survival. She flies towards the mainland U.S.A but crash lands an undetermined amount of time later when her TSF ran out of fuel. She is later found by Major @Marimo Jinguuji of the Japanese Imperial forces stationed at @Seattle, Washington.

December 24, 2004: A massive conflict erupts between French, @Canada, and the US forces. Later called the 8th Border War. Survivors of the initial battles end up trekking across the entirety of the continental @United States of America (USA) to return to friendly forces, with many falling to starvation or giving in to animal impulse and becoming cannibals.

The entirety of what remains of Humanity settles into two camps. Remnants of the @Empire of Japan, @The United States of America (USA), and whats left of friendly @United Nations's forces gather in @Seattle, Washington. The city is overcrowded and a massive slum builds around it from the sheer number of refugees. Riots are frequent due to food shortages. On the other side of the coin, French and Canadian forces, allied with remnants of Soviet forces settle in @Vancouver, to the north.

How to handle this new post-story wasteland setting

The G-Bombs destroyed the world, but the BETA still survived. The remnants of humanity — and the party — have to navigate even harsher food shortages, civil decay, and vacuum zones (no atmosphere), while brokering cordial relations with their hostile neighbors and prioritize an uneasy peace to quickly handle the remaining BETA before they can re-establish new Hives. With the entirety of the survivors in, or near @Seattle, Washington, the BETA will attempt to re-establish themselves by recapturing the abandoned @Yokohama Base, and reactivating and rebuilding its Hive structures.