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United States
"The truth is much more complicated than you think."
This article is written from a Lore perspective. It contains spoilers and different reference materials might be contradictory.
The United States of America is a country of North America, which secured a globally important position in the world balance in the modern era. They are historical opponents of the Soviet Union, and were significantly weakened with them and the rest of the world's nation-states during World War Three. After World War Two, they had engaged in an arms race with the Soviets over the control of powerful relics technology, often to devastating results.
While important in the background of the Girls' Frontline series, the United States are conspicuously absent from main stories. Daybreak Squad and Martha Meitner are the only main American characters in the story.
Technological tardiness
During the last year of World War Two, the US deployed Alsos teams to plunder the war secrets of the Nazi and the Japanese, especially their research on nuclear, rocket and aircraft technology. On the surface, Alsos teams managed to grab most of the important materiel and personnel before the competing Soviet Trade Federation could, but only after the start of the Cold War did they realize that it was only because the Trade Federation was focusing on relics technology. When the US forces captured Wernher Von Braun at Bleicherode, the understaffed Alsos team prioritized the rocketry equipment and personnel and ignored the local Urkunde-01 relics site, yielding 10 years worth of research to the advancing Red Army's vanguards.
When the Cold War started, the US advantage in the field of nuclear weaponry held only until 1949, when the Soviets matched their capabilities thanks to their own research. When the Soviets finished the “Starfish” installation at the Tabasar-B Proving Grounds, the US had no mean to know if it was an offensive system, and they kept over two bases' worth of strategic nuclear weapons pointed at the site as soon as they developed the necessary intercontinental ballistic missile capability.[1] The West only realized the extent of the technological gap with the Soviets in 1955, during their last deep intelligence mission in Eastern Europe, conducted with Marshall Plan assets before the Warsaw Pact would close the region behind the Iron Curtain.[2]
Relics experiments
The US sought to rapidly regain a technological advantage with more experiments on relics site. In 1955, the US established the McMurdo Antarctic surveillance station 1.1km from the recently discovered relics site D1 on the shores of Lake Vostok in the Antarctic Ice Shelf, later nicknamed “Door”. The black budget governmental organization “Big Sieve” was also founded to study relics technology on a tactical level. Between 1955 and 1980, Big Sieve would scramble for relics site in US-controlled territory and discover three more: D2 at Los Alamos in New Mexico, D51 in the Lake Central region of California and D9 at Warren, Wyoming. Big Sieve would collaborate with the military in the relics research and excavation matter. They worked with the Army to hide a research institute in the Redstone Arsenal, and would found Skunk Works with the Air Force and Lockheed-Martin. The mechanical finds at D1 would be transported to the US and Skunk Works would derive the U-2, SR-71, F-117, F-22 and F/A-00 from the research and retroengineering of these relics.
In 1957, when the Soviets launched the first man-made satellite, the US decided to refocus its research structure and Big Sieve's responsibilities became purely governmental, in charge of discovering and protecting US relics, and scouting and destroying enemy relics. Research responsibilities fell in the hands of a new organization proposed by President Eisenhower to Congress: the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), managed by the Secretary of Defence. ARPA was accepted the day it was proposed and had received 5.2 million US dollars in startup funds five day later, totaling 200 million dollars in investment by the time it was officially founded in 1958. ARPA was of great military strategic importance for the US to take back the technological advantage, and all projects had to be completed with no delay. If not, it was handed to a new team and restarted.[2]
At D9, ARPA experimented an anti-organic matter gas found in relics on live subjects. This gas is only known by ARPA's nickname “accelerant”, and of the 130 tons recovered and stored in D9, 3 were deployed to Vietnam for live combat trial in 1968 on orders of President Johnson. Modified F-4 known as Thundercats deployed the gas under direct order of Big Sieve, and by the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, all 3 tons had been used up, sometimes creating 500 meters-wide clearings of burnt earth and vehicles without leaving a bone or a leaf behind. The US were the first to use relics technology in warfare.[3] The “Lady Liberty” experiments conducted at the “Door” studied a teleportation phenomenon between relics D1 and D2 by way of manned and unmanned pocket submarines. Success and survivability of the experiments were erratic, with pilots contracting ELID infection. The infection rate was growing rapidly with the intensity of relics research, and by 1981 the growth rate was deemed dangerous both by the West and the East.[4]
Détente
With mediation from the Vatican and World Health Organization, the Relic Arms Limitation Treaty took place in 1981 and were signed on November 3rd. Both parties agreed to stop relics research effort for the time being and work toward a vaccine for ELID, with research debuting on 1983. Relics information were also shared during the Accords,[4] and the Soviet Union had to trade their data on Pikes for the ARPA to recognize the use of relics technology in Vietnam.[3]
The Treaty would later be expanded into international collaboration on relics technology, leading to the formation of the United Nations Relic Science Agency and the GAVIRUL Reproduction Projects.[4]
Down spiral to War
In the days following the Beilan Island Incident of 2030, the United States heavily influenced East Asian politics. US troops participated in disaster response in South Korea, but on the order of the American President, they also ensured a complete lockdown of the North Korean border, preventing any North Korean citizen from seeking refuge beyond the 38th Parallel unless their government accessed to particularly harsh political demands. The country responded by hiding its population underground. The actions of the US were made public during a United Nations hearing in February 2032, and on March 2nd, the North Korean military crossed the DMZ and started the Second Korean War. Having noticed the early signs of the attack, the US garrison in South Korea had already begun retreating to Japan, and left the peninsula to be engulfed by the war caused by their blackmail.
In May 2030, the US pushed to maintain their presence in East Asia via a garrison in Hokkaido, in northern Japan, which reduced the available space for refugees from the rest of the country. In order to prevent the United Nations from demanding they leave the country, the United States Pacific Command supported a coup by Japanese politicians opposed to taking in survivors. In the night of the 24th to 25th of May, the US military forcibly evacuated remaining United Nations staff from the Tokyo Protected Zone before their 3rd Fleet started blocking any transit through the Tsugaru Strait, abandoning the rest of the population to the Collapse radiations. In July, Raeder Rossartre of the United Nations Relics Agency (UNRA) warned that the Collapse catastrophe would soon reach the American continent, but he was not heard due to his suspicious trip to Russia.
By September 2030, Collapse fluid capsules that had fallen into the Pacific Ocean reached the western coast of North America. Carried by sea breeze, radiations caused the loss of coastal cities from Anchorage to San Diego. Survivors fleeing east found no relief: private Relic Technology companies illegally recovered some of the capsules and transported them farther inland for study, but their brute-force methods to open them caused massive explosions, leveling cities such as Salt Lake City and Phoenix and causing 100 square mile radius Black Zones. Denver and Kansas were similarly lost, along with areas in Canada. Plans were drawn to manage the evacuation of refugees with help from Rossartre, but they failed due to suspicions from western state governments, rejections of survivors by Green Zone residents and greed. In December, the Pentagon eventually built the New Boundary, a 2300km long exclusion zone stretching from Port Arthur to Winnipeg, cutting North America in two and trapping many survivors west. Rossartre pushed back again the exclusion zone and denounced the US disaster response in his posthumous Beilan Island Incident Investigation Report in 2033, but this only led to the Congress expelling the UNRA from New York,[5] directly causing the organization to spit into its Rossartrist and Beaconist factions.
The territory loss did not deter American interventionism: they crushed the Latin American independence movements, and the prospect of an American-Soviet treaty fell through in September 2032, causing the worldwide deployment of more military troops and the outbreak of the Second Cold War.[6] Growing distrust against the US enabled Western Europe to expand their influence over the Atlantic Ocean until the Northern Lights Incident of 2035 cut their resources short, and the Americas refused to help mitigating their refugees crisis. A short-lived American-Soviet alliance disappeared in 2038, and movements against the New Boundary started appearing in 2041, internally weakening the country.[7] General Dynamics participated in the rise of automated high-mobility heavy vehicles, most notably the first eight-legged all-terrain platform in 2037.[6]
After the European governments and the Neo-Soviet Union butted head over the Ukrainian Civil War in 2043, Canada was absorbed into the United States and an independence movement in the Bahamas was crushed. The US were presumably one of the three permanent members of the United Nations who left over aggressive conservative actions, breaking the organization. The late American interference in the 2044 German Civil War further contributed to heightened tensions with the NSU.[7] During the war, mandatory conscription into national military service was reinstated.[8]
Both the United States and the NSU suffered heavy losses during the initial nuclear launch mistakes that were the opening shot of World War Three in 2045. In 2047, the American armies made landfall in Europe, preventing the NSU from completing their conquest of the Old Continent and establishing a long-standing front line. When the American armies made an offensive in Germany in May 2047, the NSU ordered Sangvis Ferri and I.O.P. to produce the first field-capable Tactical Dolls, which successfully crushed the American offensive on Berlin in August. During the war, the Rossartrists believed the spark that would light the way to a better world could not be lit in North America, and made efforts to undermine American influence so it would not come out on top at the end of the war. In the closing years of WW3, the Americans suffered a massive defeat and lost the Asian front,[6] Soviet reports from May 2049 mentioning their retreat from Guangxi.[7]
In 2051, the US Army Special Warfare Command Rangers[9] deployed Daybreak Squad to capture Martha Meitner in the Dead Sea in the Southwest Pacific,[10][11] but the operation was a failure.[9][12] As they retreated, Paradeus called the US “a powder keg” that would soon be engulfed in a new civil war.[11]
A World in anguish
World War Three eventually concluded after no country was left able to wage war. Without food import from the Americas, Europe suffered from famines.[6] Daybreak Squad and the Rangers were disbanded at some point.[9] Despite the end of the war, an active and destructive conflict continued in Texas, where CentaureissiCentaureissi and ClothoClotho served as support Dolls.[13] One of the parties employed railguns,[14] but neither party is identified so it is unknown of it is a conflict between nations, a civil war or a conflict against well-organized bandits.
42LAB is a firm known to have moved its headquarters from Maryland to Eastern Europe after the war.[15] ChelseaChelsea was activated in Baltimore in 2057 and participated in 42LAB's Project Neural Cloud in 2060, along with FlorenceFlorence who hailed from the same city.[16]
References
- ↑ Codename: Bakery Girl, Secret Document 2
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Codename: Bakery Girl, Secret Document 5
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Codename: Bakery Girl, Secret Document 3
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Codename: Bakery Girl, Secret Document 9
- ↑ The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, Part. 1
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, Part. 2
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 The Art of Girls' Frontline Vol.2, Confidential Files, Part. 3
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Twilight Requiem - Stage 1-3
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Girls' Frontline, Eclipses & Saros, E1
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, E1-2B
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Girls' Frontline, Slow Shock, E1-4B
- ↑ Girls' Frontline, Eclipses & Saros, E7
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Twilight Requiem - Stage 2-1
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Twilight Requiem - Stage 4-3
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Worldview - 42Lab
- ↑ Project Neural Cloud, Chelsea and Florence's Doll Profiles
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