Resistance: Fall of Man

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Parker:
[narration] The Chimeran threat began in Russia. The origin of the virus is unknown but it's effects were devastating and swift. In the nineteen thirties reports of biological experiments began leaking out of Russia. Then reports of villages destroyed overnight. Then entire cities. We feared the Russians had developed a new superweapon, the truth was far worse. The Chimera stayed sealed in Russia for over a decade. Then in nineteen fourty-nine they launched an attack that overwhelmed all of Europe in a matter of weeks. For several months we thought England was safe, but in October of nineteen fifty, the Chimera burrowed under the channel. We had prepared for them, but within three months time, the war was lost. We abandoned the cities to the Chimera and retreated to scattered military bases and outposts. The Chimera had won. On July the eleventh, nineteen fifty-one, the Americans launched an assault on the eastern coast of England. On the second wave of that assault was a sergeant named Nathan Hale. The actions of that solider have become a matter of both scrutiny and myth. What follows are the known events of his life from July eleventh to July the fourteenth, the day he was last seen. The American soldiers had no idea of what they would soon be facing. The US government had sealed off its borders in nineteen fifty. Radios and newspapers became state property. Only the highest levels of their government knew the truth. The operation was an exchange. The Americans were bringing supplies and tanks into York, we were giving them our one weapon, something we could offer that they couldn't build themselves. I was the commander of the convoy team that was to meet the soldiers. We were ambushed in Manchester on the way to the rendezvous. There was no way to warn the Americans. They were on their own in York, fighting an enemy they knew nothing about. We never learned exactly what happened there, all we know is that Nathan Hale was the sole survivor.

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Parker:
As the tower fell, chimeran creatures began to shriek and wythe on the ground. They died within minutes. We believed they were simply unable to surivive without the angels. The signifigance of our victory in London wasn't understood for several days. The reactor meltdown caused a chain reaction that destroyed all the towers in the network. At least in Britian the Chimera were defeated. We have investigated the ruins of five towers so far. As we attempt to reverse engineer the complex technologies the mystery only deepens. With combat subsided the soldiers have been searching the rural villages for survivors. So far we have found nine-hundred twenty-one hiding in bunkers and basements. Seventy-eight of them children. Cartwright's youngest daughter, Angela, was among them. As for Nathan Hale? His body was never recovered. He was presumably incinerated in the tower. The American military has him listed as killed in action July the 14th, 1951. A part of me still believes he might've escaped somehow. I even thought I heard his voice on the radio just after the tower exploded. I'll never know for sure.

Parker:
No one knows exactly how Hale was infected by the Chimeran virus. Our only clue is a journal entry recovered from the body of a US medic. It says that he encountered a number of comatose soldiers in a dry creek bed. One of the soldiers, a Sergeant simply woke up. Unlike the other soldiers he had no wounds at all. The Sergeant refused any kind of medical examination instead insisting on catching up with the rest of the unit. If the Sergeant was in fact Nathan Hale then he remains the only known survivor to wake up after being infected. Whether the virus mutated within him or whether his body simply had a resistance to it, remains a mystery.