Forty years of history

Druuna stripped down to her skivvies to help cool off in the oddly humid morning and opened the book with the odd name “Forty Years of History”. The book contained a number of pictures of people in suits and odd maps. Druuna flipped to a random page near the back and started reading:

“Despite the Shanghai Summit Russia, Japan and India continued to pick at the weakened Chinese nation. Covert actions by the three nations incited revolts and widespread uprisings. The increasingly paranoid Chinese government lashed out at the revolts with severe actions that only served to further divide the nation. Eventually China collapsed in 2097 and the vast lands and population of China was split up amongst the nations of Russia, India, Japan and Mongolia. This was not without its price, however. The Chinese government, left cowering inside the capital with Russian tanks and Japanese infantry units closing in, panicked and launched the whole of their nuclear arsenal at parts of Europe and Asia in one final act of retribution. Most of the missiles were taken down by powerful Japanese missile defense lasers or impacted in mostly unpopulated areas of Russia and Mongolia. Though casualties were few, the use of nuclear weapons in the continents of Europe and Asia had been sparked, and it wouldn’t be long before it happened again.

In 2114 Russia declared war on Mongolia over an argument about a number of border areas between Russian China and Mongolian China. It was obvious to the international community that this was a flimsy excuse made by Russia to take Mongolia’s Chinese territories, but the U.N. was just an ornamental organization by this point and nobody came to Mongolia’s defense.

The Russo-Mongolian war was expected to be but a short border conflict that would end when Mongolia surrendered to the much more powerful Russia. What wasn’t expected was that Mongolia had claimed a number of hidden Chinese missile silo’s in the last war. Facing insurmountable odds, the Mongolian government launched 49 nuclear missiles at strategic targets in Russian. There was no Japanese laser defense to stop them this time.

Three fourths of Moscow were obliterated in an instant. Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Omsk and Kazan were all destroyed in a rain of nuclear fire. Russia responded in kind; Russian retaliatory strikes decimated most of Mongolia and Mongolian China.”

Druuna put the book down for a second and rubbed her temples. She didn’t understand, what were these odd sounding tribes and why were they fighting? The book used odd terms like “political” and “economic” and she just couldn’t understand it very well. With a sigh Druuna grabbed some water and food from her pack and had a light dinner. It was getting dark and Druuna was pretty sleepy, so she decided to go to bed. She sighed softly and fell into a deep sleep.