1 ene 1984 año - 1984: Desperation

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North America

United States

President Reagan and his staff at Mt. Weather are facing a dire situation. The facility was only established with a limited food supply and it is slowly running out. Abandoned farms and orchards in neighboring Virginia are producing mutated fruit or in most cases none at all. Salvage teams from his Secret Service has been sent out to get more, but has had little luck as the few surviving locals have picked stores and restaurants clean. Contact with Vice President Bush at The Greenbrier indicated the same situation was affecting them. On April 23, 1984 the decision was made to evacuate the President and Vice President from North America and fly them to Australia. Reagan and Bush leave the US on May 5, 1984. But the American government leaving the devastated country will not be the worst thing to happen on one of the worst days in U.S. History. Reagan makes it safely to Hawaii.

But then destiny strikes: Thanks to electromagnetic interference and residual radiation left over from Doomsday, the president's plane becomes unresponsive and is horribly off course a few hours after leaving Hawaii. Running out of fuel and unable to land, the Boeing E-4 loses altitude and crashes into the South Pacific. Though the President and First Lady survive the crash, the life-raft the couple and their Secret Service team escapes on sinks in a squall a day later.

Nominally, George Bush becomes President on May 6, 1984. He reaches Brisbane, Australia after stops in Hawaii and Auckland, New Zealand. Prime Minister Hawke welcomes Bush, but informs him that the RAAF has lost contact with the NEACP. They wait a few days for any reports, but with none coming, Bush has a local Australian judge swear him in as President on May 8. An American Provisional Administration is then established in Canberra, mostly attempted to garner intelligence on the situation after Doomsday, both in the US and across the world.

While much of the United States was devastated, there were survivors scattered throughout the country. In some cases fragile states that had been established in the previous year would see their downfalls, while in other cases cities and towns would form alliances that would lead to the birth of new nations, or state governments would reform and set themselves on the road to independence.

On January 25, the Vermont Legislature reconvened in the capital of Montpelier. A provisional state government of New Hampshire was formed on February 4, its representatives making contact with Vermont on February 19. In May, Vermont voters overwhelming chose independence over statehood; the constitution for the Republic of Vermont was signed on July 24. New Hampshire voters had chosen union with Vermont in a special referendum on May 18, and on July 25, New Hampshire officially became a county within the Republic of Vermont.

In March, the provisional Georgia state government, centered in Athens, fell apart in what is believed to be a nearly two-week period of violence and mayhem. A large group of the estimated 2,000 survivors journeyed to the town of Toccoa in northwest Georgia, with the remainder scattering to the surrounding region.

Also in March, a Kansas State University student and an engineer from Wichita, two of the survivors in Manhattan, Kansas, made radio contact with survivors in Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The Manhattan survivors voted unanimously in a special meeting at Kansas State University to leave the region for western Nebraska.

In July, talks between representatives of the towns of Hattiesburg, Natchez and Starkville in the state of Mississippi - aimed at forming a provisional government - broke down. And survivors in Lawrence, Kansas, made radio contact and Scottsbluff and voted unanimously to leave for western Nebraska.

The Texas towns of Midland and Odessa and New Mexico towns of Carlsbad and Hobbs formed the Provisional Government of the Cities of Western Texas and Southwestern New Mexico in August; work began immediately on formalizing itself into the nation that would become West Texas.

Sometime in 1984, the 101st Airborne unit pulled out of the Fort Campbell military base (located along the Kentucky/Tennessee border) after the region fell into total chaos. The 101st settled in West Virginia, taking command of the capital of Charleston, and formed what would become the Virginian Republic.

Throughout 1984, survivors in small towns throughout the U.S. - such as Asheville in North Carolina; Cape Girardeau in Missouri; Cave City in Kentucky; Portland in Tennessee; and Spokane in Washington state - focused on their own affairs, trying merely to survive their new world the best they could, rejecting any grand ideas of reforming states, resigned to the possibility they were perhaps the last survivors in the world.

Of course, they weren't, as the next years would show.

Canada

From the ashes of Canada, a new government emerges, based in St John's. The provinces of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, as well as coastal Quebec and the eastern Northwest Territories, become the Canada Remainder Provinces. Over the following decades they expand into the rest of Canada.

Oceania

In the face of the global situation after Doomsday, the long-lasting friendship and intense cooperation between Australia and New Zealand proves enormously precious. By November the two Commonwealth members have intensified their relationship aligning and combining key branches of government, especially the military and other security forces, civil protection, agriculture/industry and transportation capacities up to a degree of practically unified government.

The main task of the two governments is defined as to secure the survival of as many citizens of the two countries - and to a certain degree- all survivors in the rest of the world as possible.

It quickly becomes vital for Australia, New Zealand and the U.S. that beside the top priority of supplying food and medicines to the population, national security should be the main focus. In order to avoid future threats by third parties utilizing superior US military technology, the already existing ANZUS defense pact between the United States, Australia and New Zealand is modified and extended. The most important part of the new agreement is that any American and any NATO Army, Navy and Air Force units that remain are immediately placed under ANZUS command. So, on June 1, 1984, the ANZUS Order 001/1984 is given by the joint ANZUS Head Command set up in Brisbane.

This order – today famous as “The Gathering” Order- is to be sent to all contactable U.S. and NATO units. It orders all units capable to do so to set course for Australian, New Zealand and Hawaiian territory. If this can not be achieved, all surviving units in a defined geographical area will be sent to the nearest suitable gathering point to which ANZUS supply convoys will meet them. The responses of American and NATO forces scattered around the globe are sporadic, but are steadily increasing. The first units to report are several nuclear submarines. They set course for ports in ANZUS territory. Due to satellite communication proving impossible, gradually word gets to several scattered naval units in the Pacific and Indian Ocean. They are ordered to assemble at several points considered suitable, mainly intact British, French and U.S. naval bases on remote islands. The bulk of the regrouping flotillas consist of submarines, frigates and destroyers from NATO countries and the remains of American carrier groups. Civilian freighter convoys are also heading to the specified destinations.

South America

Representatives from Argentina, Uruguay and the Falkland Islands meet in Buenos Aires to discuss how they can better combine their resources to get through the crisis caused by the economical and environmental damage done by Doomsday. They agree to form a new unified nation called the Republica Americana Unida (United American Republic). British military forces in the Falkland Islands reluctantly agree to the situation and evacuate the islands (along with any civilians who wish to join them) and head toward Australia.

The FARC, M-19 and the EPL reach an agreement with the Colombian government, which would include the ceasing of hostilities and a plan from demobilized guerrillas to enter either politics, the military or other forms of civil life. The government would concentrate on prosecuting groups like MAS and other paramilitaries. The ELN does not endorse the agreement.

Asia

Siberia and its surrounding areas are the last remaining Soviet-governed area in the Soviet Union. In March, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Geydar Aliyev, arrived at the vague borders of the still functioning parts of the country. With no central government in Moscow to help them, Siberia, along with the rest of the Russian Far East and the Kazakh SSR declare themselves the successor state to the Soviet Union. The area is declared the Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics on December 23. This newly formed country soon embarks on a massive reconstruction project.

Europe

United Kingdom

The surviving members of the RAF and Royal Navy, which was on maneuvers around the world and particularly around the Falkland Islands, return to the UK to pick up as many survivors as they can. The RAF also pick up the remainder of the Royal Family (Recently crowned King Andrew and his father Prince Phillip), who were on the Isle of Wight. The only members of the British Royal Family to stay are Princess Anne and her daughter Zara, who stay behind and form the Kingdom of Cleveland as Queen Anne II.

Africa

The economic and environmental ramifications of Doomsday has caused governments across the continent to collapse.

Somalia

The people of Somaliland declare independence.

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