~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It will never be remembered how or why the misunderstanding between two sovereign nations escalated, as they so often do, into a larger global conflict. Their ancestors had fought for centuries over the same piece of ground and in the modern era they’d continued on as their fathers and forefathers before them. Conventional weapon strikes and counter-strikes between the two countries eventually grew into a nuclear exchange and in the ensuing chaos an errant grid coordinate was entered into a ballistic computer. The result was that a third nation was dragged into the quarrel and they retaliated in kind. Due to non-aggression treaties and retaliation pacts between partnered states almost every nation that had offensive capabilities was pulled into the madness one by one. The complete destruction of human society, as we know it, was accomplished in little more than twenty-four hours. The impacts of the missiles and the vaporization of flora and fauna caught in the explosions threw millions of tons of dust and debris into the air.
