> On Apr 6, 2:06 pm, "\(not quite so\) Fat Sam"
> knox.orangehome.co.uk> wrote:

>> Michael E Johnson wrote:

>>> It should be noted that Enterprise finally confirmed that Colonel
>>> Green was American and operated in the aftermath of WWIII.

>>

>>> World War III

>>

>>> October 5,2059- The Optimum movement,a neo-fascist organization in
>>> the
>>> tradition of Nazi Germany and the Great Khanate,forms the Optimal
>>> Republics of Earth to replace the "so called New United Nations".The
>>> movement continues to build support in Europe and Oceania.

>>

>>> March 16 ,2060 -The government of Australia becomes Optimal under
>>> the leadership of Colonel Patrick Green who puts the Australian
>>> Prime Minister under house arrest.New Zealand follows the same
>>> course on March 27.

>>

>>> May 2,2060 - The Stockholm Massacre occurs.Colonel Adrick Thorsen,a
>>> leading member of Colonel Green's cadre,quells a ration
>>> demonstration in Stockholm Sweden by deploying battlefield pulse
>>> emitters against unarmed civilians.Nearly 700 were killed and over
>>> 2000 injured in that
>>> brutal assault.

>>

>>> March 19,2061 - Colonel Adrik Thorsen unsuccessfully attempts to
>>> obtain faster than light technology from American scientist Zefram
>>> Cochrane.

>>

>>> June 2,2071- US President Christine Thomas,Secretary of State John F
>>> Kennedy III and 11 others are killed in a hover copter explosion
>>> over Paris ,France.Evidence,that is withheld from the American
>>> public to avert a war,suggests Optimum involvement.

>>

>>> August 26 ,2075- To the shock and horror of the United States and
>>> the remaining democracies in the world, The Optimum is victorious in
>>> Great
>>> Britain's parliamentary elections.

>>

>>> September 17, 2075- Queen Mary III is imprisoned for opposing
>>> Optimum policies.

>>

>>> October 6,2075 - The Cambridge Riots occur.The Optimum government
>>> sends in Fourth World Mercenaries to close down Cambridge
>>> University.They use shredder bombs to disperse protesting faculty
>>> and students-nearly 1000 are killed,hundreds wounded.

>>

>>> June 8,2078- Optimum forces invaded Belarus,Ukraine and Moldavia.The
>>> next day they move into Venezuela,Ecuador,Columbia and Peru.The New
>>> United Nations condemns these invasions.The United
>>> States,Russia,Mexico and several other Central American,African and
>>> Asian nations declare war on the Optimum over the next few days.

>>

>>> July 13,2078 -Colonel Green starts a nuclear exchange between the
>>> Optimal Republics of Earth and the New United Nations.37 million are
>>> killed in the initial exchange.Millions die eventually.

>>

>>> April 19,2079 President Littlehawk,former presidents Chang and Hogan
>>> and 72 others are killed in an explosion at the Powell Institute
>>> while
>>> planning the defeat of remaining Optimum forces.It is later
>>> discovered
>>> that Vice President Tricia Brown was an Optimum operative
>>> instrumental
>>> in causing this tragedy.This date is considered the end of the old
>>> United States government as no more presidential elections were held
>>> and what was the remaining United States government lead the
>>> recovery movement with the New United Nations and Earth colonies
>>> which eventually formed the United Earth government in the 22nd
>>> century.

>>

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