Freeway Warrior - Timeline

Timeline

• 2011: Seventeen 100-kiloton nuclear warheads are stolen by HAVOC - The Hijack, Assassination and Violent Opposition Consortium.
• New Years Day, 2012: The stolen warheads are smuggled into major cities around the globe. An ultimatum is issued: Unless a £2 trillion ransom is paid and all HAVOC agents being held prisoner released then the warheads will be detonated one by one.
• January 2, 2012: The world government refuses to cooperate; Paris, France is destroyed.
• January 3rd, 2012: The World Defense League retaliates by attacking HAVOC's command headquarters and killing the inhabitants. Unknown to them, a failsafe is activated and the remaining warheads are detonated. A disastrous chain reaction results, feeding on civil and military nuclear installations all across the northern hemisphere. The world as we know it ends...
• 2012-2019: Hundreds of millions of people are killed within days, and many more perish during the years that follow, falling victim to the radioactivity and the severe climatic changes that affect the earth.
• 2019-2020: Radiation decays to tolerable levels, climate returns to normal and survivors emerge to reclaim what little remains of the world they once knew.